Port Adelaide

Port Adelaide Football Club, simply known as Port Adelaide and sometimes referred to by the nickname the "Power", is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club is traditionally based in Alberton, a suburb on the west side of Adelaide. The club plays home matches at the Adelaide Oval, a ground it shares with arch rivals the Adelaide Crows. Whilst Port Adelaide's iconic "prison bars" strip is today used less frequently than in the past, the team's traditional home colours are still black and white, as well as teal.

📜 Port Adelaide History

Port Adelaide was founded in 1870, making it the fifth oldest current AFL team, and the oldest outside the state of Victoria. The club quickly became one of the larger and more well-known clubs in South Australia, and was a founder member of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), then known as the South Australian Football Association, upon its establishment in 1877.

By the early 1900's, Port Adelaide had begun wearing a black and white strip, having formerly worn blues and pinks on older kits. The monochrome jerseys, highly identifiable thanks to a "prison bar" design of vertical stripes, are now one of the hallmarks of Port Adelaide Football Club.

In 1914 the club achieved a unique feat by winning the SANFL premiership and Championship of Australia whilst remaining undefeated all season. The Port Adelaide team of 1914 is still referred to as the "Invincibles".

Between 1954 and 1959, Port Adelaide won 6 SANFL premierships in a row, securing titles 15 through 20 in consecutive seasons in one of the most dominant Australian rules eras produced by any side.

After continued SANFL success throughout the 20th century, Port Adelaide was admitted to the AFL in 1997. Whilst the Brisbane Lions' entry predated Power's, Port Adelaide nonetheless became the first fully non-Victorian entrants to the league, on account of the Lions' connection to Fitzroy. Port Adelaide's AFL entry was accepted on the condition that the club would continue to field a side in the SANFL; Port Adelaide therefore competes in both leagues with different teams, though both are under the Port Adelaide club name.

In both 2002 and 2003 Port Adelaide won the minor premiership, but was eliminated in the finals stages. It would be third time lucky for the club, however: after topping the table again in 2004, Power advanced to a grand final versus the Brisbane Lions. Port Adelaide would win 17.11 (113) to 10.13 (73). Port Adelaide would reach another grand final in 2007, but would be thrashed by the Geelong Cats, by over 100 points.

Port Adelaide's AFL premiership win, 4 Championships of Australia, and 36 SANFL premierships make it one of the most successful Australian rules football clubs in history.