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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.
From 1993 until 2018, the club was known as Port Adelaide Lion following a merger with Ukrainian Sports Club Lion. This was one of the club's many mergers, including earlier ones with Cheltenham in 1914 and Port Thistle in 1956. In the beginning, Port Adelaide SC played at a ground adjacent to Alberton Oval. It has been based at their current ...
Showdown: the intrastate South Australian derby played between Adelaide and Port Adelaide. Siren: a loud sound used to signal the start and end of the game, and the start and end of each quarter. [3] Sit: the best position from which to take a mark. Usually used in the structure 'to have the sit'.
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 is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of the Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the city of Adelaide.
The Port Adelaide Football Club was founded in late April or early May 1870. The club played its first game against a side called 'The Young Australians' in 1870 at Glanville hall Estate. In 1877 Port Adelaide joined seven other local clubs and formed the South Australian Football Association, the first
This is a list of nicknames and slogans of cities in Canada.Many Canadian cities and communities are known by various aliases, slogans, sobriquets, and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national, or international scales, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.
The following is a list of players who have captained the Port Adelaide Football Club at a game of Australian rules football in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 1997, the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and earlier iterations of competition between 1870 and 1996, and the AFL Women's (AFLW) since 2022.