Adelaide Football Club, better known as the Adelaide Crows, is an Australian rules football team that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The Adelaide Crows play the majority of their home matches at the Adelaide Oval. The team colours are navy blue, gold, and red.
📜 Adelaide Crows History
Founded prior to the 1991 AFL season, the Crows played their first competitive match on 22 March, against Hawthorn. Despite having won 4 AFL Premierships since 1983, Hawthorn were overturned to the surprise of many; the inexperienced Crows won by a huge 86-point margin, and would go on to finish a respectable 9th in the table. Hawthorn would go on to win the 1991 trophy, underlining the Crows' massive early achievement.
Adelaide Crows soon consolidated its position within the AFL, and by 1993 the team was strong enough to finish within the top-6, eventually being eliminated from the play-off finals at the preliminary final stage. Just 4 years later, the Crows would reach new heights again, reaching their first Premiership grand final in 1997; the Crows went on to beat St. Kilda, to win the club's first Premiership. The team then defended its title the following year, defeating 1996 major premiers North Melbourne in the grand final.
Between 2001 and 2009 the Crows reached all but one play-off finals, albeit without reaching the grand final, but in 2012 the club was then found guilty of breaching the AFL's salary cap, and was penalised as a result. Despite this, in 2017, the Crows reached their first grand final since 1998, however they lost-out to Richmond by 48 points.
