| Port Adelaide Football Club | |
|---|---|
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| Names | |
| Full name | Port Adelaide Football Club Limited[1] |
| Nickname(s) | Port, Power |
| Motto | Herstory in the making |
| Club song | AFL:Power to Win |
| 2025 season | |
| Home-and-away season | 10th |
| Leading goalkicker | Indy Tahau(25 goals) |
| Best and fairest | Matilda Scholz |
| Club details | |
| Colours | Black White Teal Silver |
| Competition | AFLW |
| Chairperson | David Koch |
| CEO | Matthew Richardson |
| Coach | Lauren Arnell |
| Captain | Justine Mules-Robinson |
| Ground | Alberton Oval (capacity: 8,000) |
| Training ground | Alberton Oval |
| Other information | |
| Official website | portadelaidefc.com.au |
 Current season | |
Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL Women's) is a professionalAustralian rules football team based inAlberton,South Australia. The team plays in theAFL Women's (AFLW) competition. The team is part of thePort Adelaide Football Club.
In May 2021, the club was granted a license by the AFL to compete in the league from the start of2022 season 7. The team play their home games atAlberton Oval, inAlberton, South Australia.
The earliest recorded instance of the Port Adelaide Football Club fielding a Women's side was in 1918 for a match played on Alberton Oval to raise funds for thePort Adelaide Workers Memorial against a team representing Thebarton.[2] Port Adelaide was captained by Eileen Reid.[2] In 1951 Port Adelaide awarded Ruby Dewar with life membership at the club, the first SANFL club to bestow the honour upon a woman, with club secretaryBob McLean praising her contribution saying that she had over 29 years "organised probably more than 100 functions for us — balls, dinners, competitions — as convener of the women's social committee."[3] Port Adelaide has given 17 women life membership at the club.[4] On 8 March 2004Jenny Williams organised a Women's Showdown as a curtain raiser to Port Adelaide's home game at Football Park.[5] The Port Adelaide Women's side won the match 16.5 (101) to Adelaide's 1.1 (7) withErin 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 2003-2018
On 16 December 2015 Erin Phillips entered into an agreement with Port Adelaide to be their marqueeAFL Women's (AFLW) signing on the contingency the club received a licence for that competition.[6] However, due to the logistical demands placed on Port Adelaide's administration and staff associated with the club's China program, which sought to ensure the club had sustainable revenue streams, the club was deemed not capable to bid for an AFLW licence for the2017 AFL Women's season.[7] Subsequently, theAdelaide Crows signed Phillips as a rookie.[8] Port Adelaide turned its attention towards entering a Women's side in theSANFL Women's League (SANFLW) competition but this approach was rejected by theSouth Australian Football Commission. After this, in 2018 the local Port Adelaide Women's Football Club in the Adelaide Football League was shut down.[9] In May 2021, theAFL Commission announced that the remaining four clubs without AFLW teams would be admitted to the competition by the end of 2023, with the clubs to bid for entry order.[10] Port Adelaide's bid to enter the competition was successful, with the AFL Commission deciding all four clubs would debut in the AFLW in 2022 season 7.[11] On 26 October 2021 Port Adelaide appointedJuliet Haslam as the clubs head of Women's football.[12] On 3 February 2022 Port Adelaide announced Naomi Maidment as the clubs inaugural AFLW list manager.[13] On 17 February 2022Rachael Sporn was appointed to an Operations Manager role to organise the logistics of running an AFLW program at Port Adelaide.[14]
Port Adelaide finished second-last (17th) in their debut season in the competition, celebrating their debut win in the competition at their home ground of Alberton Oval in round 4 againstSydney.[15] The team marginally improved to 15th in the 2023 season, and inaugural captain and dual-sports professionalErin Phillips retired from football at the end of the season.[16] The team had a breakout2024 season, winning 8 games in a row on the way to a maiden finals appearance. They reached a preliminary final, where they were defeated by eventual premiersNorth Melbourne. The streak included a semi-final victory overHawthorn, which was notable for being the biggest three-quarter time comeback in AFLW history.[17]Justine Mules-Robinson took over the captaincy ahead of the2025 season, a season in which the club was more inconsistent and won six of their twelve matches to miss out on finals by percentage.[18] ForwardGemma Houghton became the first player in league history to reach 100 career goals, registering the milestone with a kick after the game in the final match of the season.[19]
In April 2022, formerCarlton captain andBrisbane premiership playerLauren Arnell was announced as Port Adelaide's inaugural AFLW coach,[20] and two weeks later, three-timeAdelaide premiership player Erin Phillips, whose fatherGreg played in 343 games and eight premierships with the club in theSouth Australian National Football League (SANFL), was announced as the club's inaugural AFLW player signing.[21] On the opening day of the expansion signing period in May, Port Adelaide signed Adelaide playersAnge Foley andJustine Mules, Brisbane midfielderMaria Moloney,Fremantle forwardGemma Houghton and twinsLaquoiya andLitonya Cockatoo-Motlap,[22] the nieces of formerEssendon andPort Adelaide playerChe Cockatoo-Collins.[23] The next day, Port Adelaide signed Phillips, Brisbane defenderIndy Tahau andCollingwood midfielderEbony O'Dea,[24] while also finalising its AFLW coaching team.[25] In August, Phillips was named Port Adelaide's inaugural AFLW captain.[26]
| Senior list | Coaching staff | ||||||||
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| Port Adelaide Football Club (women's) Honour Board | |||||||||||
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| Year | Ladder | W–L–D | % | Finals | Chairman | CEO | Coach | Captain | Best & Fairest | Leading Goalkicker(s) | |
| 2022 (S7) | 17th | 1–8–1 | 70.6 | DNQ | David Koch | Matthew Richardson | Lauren Arnell | Erin Phillips | Hannah Ewings | Hannah Ewings,Jade de Melo, Gemma Houghton,Brittany Perry | 4 |
| 2023 | 15th | 2–7–1 | 75.1 | DNQ | David Koch | Matthew Richardson | Lauren Arnell | Erin Phillips | Abbey Dowrick | Gemma Houghton | 16 |
| 2024 | 6th | 7–4–0 | 118.4 | Preliminary final | David Koch | Matthew Richardson | Lauren Arnell | Janelle Cuthbertson | Matilda Scholz | Gemma Houghton2 | 17 |
| 2025 | 10th | 6–6–0 | 105.0 | DNQ | David Koch | Matthew Richardson | Lauren Arnell | Justine Mules-Robinson | Matilda Scholz2 | Indy Tahau✪ | 25 |
| ⚑ = Premier /★ = League Best and Fairest /✪ = League Leading Goal Kicker /2 = Multiple Best & Fairest or Leading Goal Kicker | |||||||||||
| ^ | Denotes current player |
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