Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton,South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL),where they are nicknamed the Power,whilst its reserves men's team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL),where they are nicknamed the Magpies. Since its founding,the club has won an unequalled 36 SANFL premierships and 4 Championship of Australia titles,in addition to an AFL Premiership in 2004. It has also fielded a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) league since 2022.
The South Australian National Football League,or SANFL,is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport.
Russell Frank Ebert was an Australian rules footballer and coach. He is considered one of the greatest players in the history of Australian rules football in South Australia. Ebert is the only player to have won four Magarey Medals,which are awarded to the best and fairest player in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He is one of four Australian rules footballers to have a statue at Adelaide Oval,the others being Ken Farmer,Malcolm Blight and Barrie Robran. Football historian John Devaney described Ebert as coming "as close as any player in history to exhibiting complete mastery over all the essential skills of the game," and he is widely regarded as the Port Adelaide Football Club's greatest ever player. Aside from his 392 games at Port Adelaide,Ebert played 25 games for North Melbourne in the 1979 VFL season and collected over 500 possessions as a midfielder for the club,which reached the preliminary final. Ebert was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996,and was posthumously elevated to Legend status in June 2022,the highest honour that can be bestowed onto an Australian footballer.
Pembroke School is an Australian independent co-educational and non-denominational day and boarding school located in Kensington Park,a suburb 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of the centre of Adelaide,South Australia. It was founded in 1974 as an amalgamation of King's College,a boys' school,and the Girton Girls' School.
The Showdown is an Australian rules football game played by the two Australian Football League (AFL) teams from South Australia,the Adelaide and Port Adelaide football clubs. The first AFL premiership fixture between the two clubs took place on 20 April 1997.
Nigel James Smart is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Smart played most of his career in defence and became a crowd favourite,easily identifiable with his bald head and goatee.
Phillip Carman is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Norwood in the SANFL and Collingwood,Melbourne,Essendon and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s and 1980s.
Gregory Anderson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and the Essendon Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Morphett is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. The electorate is located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) slightly south of west of the Adelaide city centre,bounded by the Holdfast Bay coastline to the west and Marion Road to the east. It is approximately 14 km2 (5.4 sq mi) in area,and includes the suburbs of Camden Park,Glenelg,Glenelg East,Glenelg North,Glenelg South,Glengowrie,Morphettville,Novar Gardens,and Park Holme,as well as a portion of Somerton Park.
Stephen Scott Kernahan is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and for the Glenelg Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also played 16 State of Origin games for South Australia and gained selection as an All-Australian five times. He later served for six years as president of the Carlton Football Club.
Australian rules football in South Australia has long been the most popular sport in the state.
The Southern Football League (SFL) is an Australian rules football league in South Australia. The League was formed,as the Southern Football Association,in 1886. The league is a not-for-profit organisation.
Duncan McFetridge is an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Morphett for the Liberal Party from the 2002 election until 2018. Entering shadow cabinet in 2004,he was re-elected at the 2006,2010 and 2014 elections,and holds the seat with a margin of 12.9 points. This was reduced to 7.7 points following the 2016 redistribution. McFetridge lost his shadow cabinet position in January 2017.
Brett James is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Scott Bassett is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League,and Norwood in the South Australian National Football League.
Damian Squire is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL) and both North Adelaide and Sturt in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Squire is the step-brother of former Norwood and Central District footballer Mark Jones.
Michael S. Taylor is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also played 13 interstate games for South Australia,which included State of Origin football.
Keith A. Thomas is a former Australian rules football player and administrator who played with Norwood in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Between 2011 and 2020 he was the chief executive officer of the Port Adelaide Football Club.
Matthew Williams is a former Australian politician who was a Liberal member of the House of Representatives seat of Hindmarsh in South Australia from the 2013 election until the 2016 election.
Bella Smith is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for Sydney in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She played for Norwood in the SANFL Women's League (SANFLW) before she was signed to an AFLW contract by Collingwood as an undrafted free agent.
