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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.
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, ... By 1840 it had acquired the name "Port Misery"; the name was widely used in news reports. [21] [22] ...
On Tuesday 10 July 2018, life and financial members voted on a motion to change the official name of the club from Port Adelaide Lion Soccer Club Inc. to Port Adelaide Soccer Club Inc. in order to provide a simple, clear identity and name for members and others. [1] The motion was passed, with 49 persons in favour and 16 against.
By the late 1860s Port Adelaide's river traffic was growing rapidly. The increasing economic activity around the waterways ultimately resulted in a meeting being organised by young Port Adelaide locals John Rann, Richard Leicester and George Ireland with the intention to form a sporting club to benefit the growing number of workers associated with the wharves and surrounding industries. [4]
The Port Adelaide Women's side won the match 16.5 (101) to Adelaide's 1.1 (7) with Erin Phillips considered a unanimous best on ground. [5] The Port Adelaide Football Club also supported the local Port Adelaide Women's Football Club (nicknamed the Magpies and wearing the "Prison Bar" guernsey) who played in the Adelaide Football League from ...
Port Adelaide's first AFL game was played against the Collingwood Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne, Victoria on 29 March 1997. Port Adelaide has contested two AFL Grand Finals, and have succeeded in winning one of these Grand Finals to claim the 2004 AFL Premiership. There have been 22 players who have played in ...
Full name: Todd Marshall: Nickname(s) Toddy: Date of birth 8 October 1998 (age 26) Original team(s) Murray Bushrangers : Draft: No. 16, 2016 national draft: Debut: Round 22, 2017, Western Bulldogs vs. Port Adelaide, at Mars Stadium: Height: 198 cm (6 ft 6 in) Weight: 92 kg (203 lb) Position(s) Key Forward: Club information; Current club: Port ...
Mark Melville Williams (born 21 August 1958) is a former Australian rules football player and coach. As a player, Williams represented West Adelaide and Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), as well as Collingwood and Brisbane Bears in the Australian Football League (AFL), from the 1970s to the 1990s.