Port Adelaide Football Club
Australian rules football club
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 it is nicknamed the Power, while its reserves men's team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), where it is nicknamed the Magpies. Since its founding, the club has won an unequalled 36 SANFL premierships and four Championship of Australia titles, in addition to an AFL premiership in 2004.
Founded in 1871, Port Adelaide is the oldest professional football club in South Australia and the fifth-oldest club in the AFL. The club was a founding member of the South Australian Football Association (SAFA), later renamed the SANFL. Port Adelaide has repeatedly asserted itself as a dominant force within South Australian football, going undefeated in all competitions in 1914, and enjoying sustained periods of success under coaches Fos Williams and John Cahill, who share a combined 19 premierships between them. Since entering the AFL in 1997, the club has claimed four minor premierships and one premiership.
Port Adelaide holds a unique status among AFL clubs, being the only pre-existing non-Victorian club to have entered the AFL from another league. It has an intense rivalry with its intra-city opponents, the Adelaide Crows; the two compete in a twice-yearly fixture known as the 'Showdown.' It has historically enjoyed a long-standing rivalry with fellow SANFL club Norwood. The club has played at their SANFL home ground, Alberton Oval, since 1880 and has used their AFL home ground, Adelaide Oval, since 2014. Port Adelaide first adopted the colours black and white in 1902, with their 'Prison Bar' guernsey. Following its entry to the AFL, the club adopted the colours of teal and silver, in order to differentiate it from Collingwood.
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