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History Of The Adelaide Football Club
The history of the Adelaide Football Club dates back to their founding in 1990, when the Australian Football League (AFL) approved a license application by the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) to base a new club out of Adelaide, South Australia in the expanding AFL competition. The club also operates a side in the AFL Women's competition, which held its first season in 2017. History Formation Throughout the 1980s, the Victorian Football League (VFL) began to expand outside of Victoria, firstly by the relocation of a team into New South Wales ( Sydney Swans) in 1982, and then the expansion into Western Australia (West Coast Eagles) and Queensland (Brisbane Bears) in 1987. However, the SANFL was against a South Australian team joining the VFL under the financial terms offered throughout the 1980s. To circumvent this, the VFL negotiated directly with both the Port Adelaide and Norwood Football Clubs during the late 1980s, but did not come to an agreement. After th ...
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Adelaide Football Club
The Adelaide Crows (officially the Adelaide Football Club) are a professional Australian rules football team based in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1990. The Crows has fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 1991, and a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition since 2017. The club's offices and training facilities are located in the western Adelaide suburb of West Lakes, at the site of the club's former home ground Football Park. Since 2014 Adelaide have played home matches at the Adelaide Oval, a 53,500-seat stadium located a few hundred metres north of the Adelaide CBD. The Crows were formed in 1990 as the de facto state team representing South Australia in the AFL. They were originally owned by the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), though they gained administrative independence in 2014. They played their first season in 1991 and finished in 9th place, the highest ranking of any expansion club in the AFL in a de ...
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Football Park
Football Park, known commercially as AAMI Stadium, was an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, South Australia, West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, the state capital of South Australia, Australia. It was built in 1973 by the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and opened in 1974. Until the end of the 2013 AFL season, it served as the home ground of South Australia's Australian Football League, AFL clubs, the Adelaide Crows, Adelaide Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club. It also hosted all SANFL finals from 1974 to 2013. Demolition of the stadium's grandstands began in August 2018, and finished in March 2019. Despite the demolition of all grandstands, the stadium's playing surface was retained. The surface is utilised by the Adelaide Football Club as its primary training ground, and is also accessible to the public. History Ground was broken for Football Park in 1971, giving the SANFL its own venue after years of playing out o ...
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Stuart Wigney
Stuart Wigney (born 19 April 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray, Sydney, Adelaide and Richmond in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL). Wigney spent his first four seasons at Footscray, having been recruited from Leongatha. He had perhaps his best season in 1990 when he had 284 disposals, 132 marks and kicked 18 goals. It was the same year that he represented Victoria at State of Origin level, against Tasmania. A key position player, he was traded to Sydney at the end of the 1991 AFL season but made just one appearance for his new club due to an ankle injury. He was then traded to Adelaide for the 71st pick of the draft, which Sydney used on Mathew Aston. After making his Adelaide debut late in the 1993 season, Wigney played a role in their run to the preliminary final, with three goals in their elimination final win over Hawthorn. His fourth and final club was Richmond, which he joined in 1995 after being de-listed by Ade ...
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1992 AFL Draft
The 1992 AFL draft is the annual draft of talented players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League. It consisted of the main national draft, the pre-season draft and the trade period. In 1992 there were 124 picks to be drafted between 15 teams in the main national draft. 1992 mid-season draft There was a mid-year draft held during the 1992 season. Players recruited in this draft were able to take their places in their AFL clubs in the latter part of the 1992 season, although not all chose to do so. Trades 1992 national draft Draft tampering The 1992 draft suffered from three high-profile cases of draft tampering involving highly rated South Australian players: No. 6 selection Robert Pyman, No. 10 selection Brett Chalmers, and No. 13 selection Andrew McKay. Prior to the draft, all three players contacted AFL clubs which they did not want to play for, and told those clubs that they would re ...
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Matthew Robran
Matthew Robran (born 19 March 1971) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented and in the Australian Football League during the 1990s. Robran was the first son of South Australian football legend Barrie Robran, and as a result he and his younger brother Jonathon, who also played AFL football, often faced unfair comparison with their father. Statistics : , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1991 , , 25 , , 7 , , 5 , , 7 , , 55 , , 44 , , 99 , , 29 , , 6 , , 9 , , 0.7 , , 1.0 , , 7.9 , , 6.3 , , 14.1 , , 4.1 , , 0.9 , , 1.3 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1993 , , 5 , , 9 , , 7 , , 4 , , 66 , , 62 , , 128 , , 42 , , 9 , , 32 , , 0.8 , , 0.4 , , 7.3 , , 6.9 , , 14.2 , , 4.7 , , 1.0 , , 3.6 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1994 , , 5 , , 0 , , — , , — , , — , , — , , — , , — , , — , , — , , — ...
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Ben Hart (Australian Footballer)
Benjamin Hart (born 9 July 1974) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League. He was an assistant coach with the Collingwood Football Club from 2012 to 2016. Early career Ben Hart made his debut in the SANFL for North Adelaide in a semi final in 1990 at 16 years of age, he went on to combine his college commitments with those of the North Adelaide Roosters until he was selected by the Crows in 1992. In 1992, Hart made his debut in the Adelaide Crows side direct from the 1st XVIII Rostrevor College team, and made an immediate impact as a defender, playing all 22 games (and booting 3 goals). The then 18-year-old Hart won All-Australian selection that year and repeated that feat in 1993. Records In early 2005, Hart passed the Adelaide games record, overtaking Nigel Smart with 279 games. In early 2006 Hart reached another milestone, by becoming the first Adelaide Crows player to join the exclusi ...
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Scott Hodges
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All-Australian Team
The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-performed players during the season, led by that season's premiership coach. Despite its nature, the All-Australian team is only ceremonial. Though the AFL played an All-Star match in 2020, it was the first in 12 years, and the difference in skill level between the All-Australian team and the nearest international competitor is currently too large for any contest to be competitive. Despite this, some of these players have represented Australia in Australia national Australian rules football team, AFL Academy junior teams up to the age of 18, as more than two-thirds of all AFL Academy representatives have gone on to play at senior AFL level. From 1998 to 2004, the Australia international rules football team, Australian international rules team ...
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Nigel Smart
Nigel James Smart (born 21 May 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Smart played most of his career in defence and became a crowd favourite, easily identifiable with his bald head and goatee. Career Smart made his senior debut in 1988 in the SANFL with South Adelaide Football Club while studying geography and politics at Flinders University. He was also a member of the Adelaide Crows squad for their inaugural season in 1991. Smart was named at full-back for Adelaide's Round One match against , going up against superstar full-forward Jason Dunstall. On his AFL debut, Smart collected six kicks, nine handballs and grabbed six marks. At the end of the 1991 season, Smart would become Adelaide's first ever All-Australian, selected in the Back pocket. One of the most famous incidents attributed to Smart's career was during the 1992 pre-season, when the Crows organised a session to walk on ho ...
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List Of Adelaide Football Club Leading Goalkickers
The following is a list of Adelaide Football Club leading goalkickers in each season of the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football league for female players. The first season of the league in February and March 2017 had eight teams; the league expanded to 10 teams in the 2019 season, 1 .... AFL Multiple winners AFL Women's ReferencesAdelaide Goalkicking Records {{DEFAULTSORT:Adelaide Football Club goalkickers Goalkickers Australian rules football-related lists ...
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Rod Jameson
Rod Jameson (born 30 June 1970) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was the Adelaide's leading goal kicker in 1991 before spending most of his later career in the midfield and backline. He was well known for his shaved head and superb long kicking and played in Adelaide's 1997 premiership win though he was injured during the first quarter of the game. He retired from the AFL at just 29 years of age. He is now a pundit on ABC Radio on AFL matches held in Adelaide. Statistics : , - , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1991 , style="text-align:center;", , 35 , , 19 , , 49 , , 28 , , 166 , , 78 , , 244 , , 79 , , 18 , , 2.6 , , 1.5 , , 8.7 , , 4.1 , , 12.8 , , 4.2 , , 0.9 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1992 , style="text-align:center;", , 35 , , 14 , , 23 , , 14 , , 131 , , 100 , , 231 ...
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Tony McGuinness (footballer)
Anthony McGuinness (born 6 May 1964 in Adelaide, South Australia) is a former Australian rules football player who played for Footscray and in the VFL/AFL. His wife is former '' Nine News'' Adelaide presenter Georgina McGuinness. SANFL career McGuinness proved his skills early in his career with leading SANFL club Glenelg, winning the Magarey Medal in 1982 at the age of 18. A dynamic and pacy left-footed rover, he featured strongly in Glenelg's 1985 premiership victory against North Adelaide, kicking 2 goals. VFL/AFL Career Like his Glenelg premiership teammate Stephen Kernahan, McGuinness then accepted the invitation to play in the more lucrative Victorian Football League. He was signed by Footscray and quickly justified his huge reputation. In five seasons at the Bulldogs, McGuinness missed only one game and consistently racked up many possessions, usually distributing it with precision by hand or by his trusty left foot. He stood out in an otherwise mediocre team, espe ...
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