Bruce Abernethy

Player: 1979-1981, 1987-1992
Games: 190 | Goals: 115
7x premierships: 1979-81, 1988-92
Best and Fairest: 1987
Jack Oatey Medal: 1988

John Abley

Player: 1950-1961
Games: 212 | Goals: 1
7x premierships: 1951, 1954-59
All-Australian: 1956, 1958, 1961
Port Adelaide’s Greatest Team: Full back

The Board of Directors and Chief Executive responsible for securing Port Adelaide’s AFL Licence

Directors: Bruce Weber, Greg Boulton, Jim Nitschke, Barry Wilson, Geoff Monteleone, David Judd, Phil Hoffmann, Frank Hayter, Ian McLachlan, Robert Hoey, Tony Hobby
CEO: Brian Cunningham

(L-R) SANFL president Max Basheer and general manager Leigh Whicker, Port Adelaide president Greg Boulton chief executive Brian Cunningham sign the club’s AFL licence agreement.

Dave Boyd

Player: 1948-1960
Games: 222 | Goals: 183
7x premierships: 1951, 1954-59
Magarey Medal: 1956
Greatest Team: Left half-forward

Craig Bradley

Player: 1981-1985
Games: 98 | Goals: 101
1x premiership: 1981
Best and Fairest: 1982, 1984, 1985
Greatest Team: Left wing

David Brown

Games: 204 (22 AFL / 182 SANFL) 1987-2001
Goals: 174 (18 AFL / 156 SANFL)
6x SANFL Premiership player (1988-89, 1992, 1996, 1998-99)
SANFL Captain (1999-2000)
Port Adelaide Football Club life member (1996)
Jack Oatey Medallist (1996)

Peter Burgoyne

Games: 276 (240 AFL / 36 SANFL) 1996-2009
Goals: 225 (193 AFL / 32 SANFL)
AFL premiership player (2004)
SANFL Premiership player (1998)
AFL pre-season premiership player (2001, 2002)
Port Adelaide Football Club life member (2005)
Showdown Medal (2003)
Port Adelaide Best Finals Player (2007)
Indigenous Team of the Century (2005)
International Rules (1999, 2003)
AFL NT Hall of Fame – Legend (2012)

John Cahill

Player: 1958-1973
Games: 264 | Goals: 286
4x premierships as a player: 1959, 1962-63, 1965
10x premierships as coach: 1977, 1979-81, 1988-90, 1992,
1994-95
Best and Fairest: 1966, 1968, 1970, 1973
Captain: 1967-73
Greatest Team: Right wing
SANFL coach: 1974-1982, 88-96
AFL coach: 1997-98
Inaugural Port Adelaide AFL coach

Bob Clayton

Player: 1966-1975
Games: 151 | Goals: 4
Football development officer: 1982-88
General manager: 1989-96
Football manager: 1997-2011

Angelo Congear

Player: 1908-1922
Games: 147 | Goals: 222
4x premierships: 1910, 1913-14, 1921

Angelo Congear (far right).

Chad Cornes

Player: 1998-2013
Games: 239 | Goals: 175
1x premiership: 2004
Life member: 2006
All-Australian: 2004, 2007
Best Finals Player: 2005
Most Improved Player: 2006
SANFL coach: 2016-2017
Forward development coach: 2018-2021
Defence coach: 2022
Forwards coach: 2023-current

Kane Cornes

Player: 2001-2015
Games: 300 | Goals: 93
1x premiership: 2004
Best and Fairest: 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012
Life Member: 2010
All-Australian: 2006, 2007
Best First Year Player: 2001
Most Improved Player: 2004

Brian Cunningham

Player 1971-1983
Games: 256 | Goals: 428
4x premierships: 1977, 1979-81
Captain: 1979-82
Port Adelaide CEO (SANFL): 1992-95
Port Adelaide CEO (AFL): 1997-2004

Leslie ‘Bro’ Dayman

Player: 1921-1931, 1937
Games: 166 | Goals: 401
2x premierships: 1921, 1928
Best and Fairest: 1923-24, 1928
Club leading goalkicker: 1928-31
League leading goalkicker: 1929

Roger Delaney

Player: 1984, 1987-1989, 1991-1997
Games: 208 | Goals: 13
6x premiership player: 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996
Max Porter Memorial Trophy: 1992, 1993 

Russell Ebert

Player: 1968-1978, 1980-1985
Games: 392 | Goals: 294
3x premierships: 1977, 1980-81
Best and Fairest: 1971-72, 1974, 1976-77, 1981
Magarey Medal: 1971, 1974, 1976, 1980
Captain: 1974-78
Greatest Team: Centre
Coach: 1983-87
Captain-coach: 1983-85

Tim Evans

Player: 1975-1986
Games: 248 | Goals: 1044
4x premierships: 1977, 1979-81
Club leading goalkicker: 1975, 1977-85
League leading goalkicker: 1977-78, 1980-84
Greatest Team: Full forward

Brian Fairclough

Coach/administrator: 1972-2003
Under 19 coach: 1972-78
4x under 19 premierships: 1974-77
Reserves coach: 1979-82, 1987-89, 1992-95
2x Reserves premierships: 1980, 1988
Selection committee: 1979-82, 1987-89
Chairman of selectors: 1990-96 (SANFL)
Chairman of selectors: 1997-98 (AFL)
AFL director: 1999-2000
Chairman, life membership committee:
2003-present

George Fiacchi

Player: 1985-97
Games: 236 | Goals: 53
7x premierships: 1988-90, 1992, 1994-96
Jack Oatey Medal: 1990
Life Member: 1994

Tim Ginever

Player: 1983-1997
Games: 314 | Goals: 302
7x premierships: 1988-90, 1992, 1994-96
Best and Fairest: 1994
Captain: 1994-97
SANFL coach: 2006-09

Neville Hayes

Player: 1953-1965
Games: 217 | Goals: 58
8x premierships: 1954-59, 1962-63
Best and Fairest: 1957, 1960
Greatest Team: Left half-back

Scott Hodges

Player: 1987-1998
Games: 183 | Goals: 693
8x premierships: 1988-90, 1992, 1994-96, 1998
Best and Fairest: 1990, 1996
Club leading goalkicker: 1988-90, 1994, 1996
Magarey Medal: 1990
Ken Farmer Medal: 1990, 1994, 1996
Greatest Team: Left forward pocket

Ron ‘Brick’ Hoffman

Player: 1939-1948
Games: 103 | Goals: 181
Administrator: 1972-92

Samson ‘Shine’ Hosking

Player: 1907-1921, 1927, 1936
Games: 163 | Goals: 45
4x premierships as a player: 1910, 1913-14, 1921*
2x wartime premierships: 1916-17
4x premierships as coach: 1928, 1936-37, 1942
Best and Fairest: 1910
Magarey Medal: 1910, 1915
Coach: 1921, 1927-31, 1936-38, 1942-44

Henry Kneebone

Medical officer: 1966-1993

Marx Kretschmer

Games: 142 (SANFL) 1951-60
Goals: 28 (SANFL)
SANFL Premiership Player (1951, 1954-58)
Port Adelaide Football Club life member (1960)
SANFL life member (1960)
3x State Games for South Australia

Brendon Lade

Games: 234 (AFL) 1997-2009
Goals: 182 AFL goals
AFL Premiership player (2004)
AFL pre-season Premiership player (2002)
Vice-Captain (2006-2008)
All-Australian (2006, 2007)
Port Adelaide Football Club life member (2005)
John Cahill Medallist (2006)
Fos Williams Medal as best team man (2006)
2x All-Australian (2006, 2007)
AFL Rising Star nominee (Round 7, 1997)
Peter Badcoe Medal (2006)
Port Adelaide Best Finals Player (2003)

Allan ‘Bob’ Mclean OBE

Player: 1939-1948
Games: 147 | Goals: 414
2x premierships: 1939, 1942
Club leading goalkicker: 1940-41, 1947-48
League leading goalkicker: 1947
General Manager: 1949-80
Chairman: 1983-89

Edward ‘Ted’ McMahon

Trainer/Head trainer: 1933-1973

Geof Motley

Player: 1953-1966
Captain-coach: 1959-1961
Games: 250 | Goals: 156
9x premierships: 1954-59, 1962-63, 1965
Best and Fairest: 1958-59, 1963, 1965
Captain: 1959-66
Magarey Medal: 1964
Greatest Team: Right half back

Paul Northeast

Player: 1987, 1989-2000
Games: 235 | Goals: 11
8x premierships: 1989-90, 1992, 1994-96, 1998-99
Life member: 1997
Best and Fairest: 1991

Peter Obst

Player: 1955-1964, 1968-1969
Games: 171 | Goals: 169
6x premierships: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963
Best and Fairest: 1962

 

Harold Oliver

Player: 1910-1915, 1919-1922
Games: 110 | Goals: 88
4x premierships: 1910, 1913-14, 1921
Best and Fairest: 1911-12
Greatest Team: Right half-forward

Greg Phillips

Player: 1976-1982, 1987-1993
Games: 343 | Goals: 93
8x premierships: 1977, 1979-81, 1988-90, 1992
Best and Fairest: 1988
Captain: 1991-93

Harry ‘Tick’ Phillips

Player: 1886-1900
Games: 198 | Goals: 126
2x premierships: 1890, 1897
Best and Fairest: 1888, 1891-93
Captain: 1899-1900
Club leading goalkicker: 1888
Chairman: 1910

Jeff Potter

Player: 1959-1970
Games: 235 | Goals: 289
4x premierships: 1959, 1962-65
Best and Fairest: 1961, 1964, 1967, 1969
Club leading goalkicker: 1964
Greatest Ever Team: Interchange

Robert Berrima Quinn M.M.

Player: 1933-1940, 1944-1947
Games: 239 | Goals: 386
3x premierships: 1936-37, 1939
Best and Fairest: 1937-38, 1945, 1947
Magarey Medal: 1938, 1945
Club leading goalkicker: 1937, 1945
Greatest Team: Right forward pocket
Captain-coach: 1939-40, 1945-47

Allan ‘Bull’ Reval

Player: 1932-1943, 1945
Games: 184 | Goals: 79
4x premierships: 1936-37, 1939, 1942
Best and Fairest: 1939
Port Adelaide’s Greatest Team: Follower
Captain-coach: 1940-41

Lew Roberts

Player: 1937-1948
Games: 182 | Goals: 50
3x premierships: 1937, 1939, 1942
Best and Fairest: 1946
Captain: 1942-44
Captain-coach: 1948

Dick Russell

Player: 1947-1953
Games: 121 | Goals: 1
1x premiership: 1951
Best and Fairest: 1948-49, 1951
Greatest Team: Left back pocket

Darren Smith

Player: 1984-1998
Games: 343 | Goals: 505
7x premierships: 1988-90, 1992, 1994-96
Club leading goalkicker: 1986-87

Rohan Smith

Player: 1985-1990, 1992-1997
Games: 251 | Goals: 247
6x premiership player: 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996
Max Porter Memorial Trophy: 1995

Warren Tredrea

Player: 1996-2010
Games: 282 | Goals: 582
AFL games: 255 | Goals: 549
SANFL games: 27 | Goals: 33
2x premierships: 1996 (SANFL), 2004 (AFL)
Captain: 2006-08 (AFL)
Best and Fairest: 2001, 2004-05, 2009
Leading goalkicker: 1998-99, 2001-05, 2009
All-Australian: 2001-04
Life member: 2005

Gavin Wanganeen

Player: 1990, 1997-2006
Games: 197 | Goals: 184
SANFL games: 23 | Goals: 46
AFL games: 174 | Goals: 138
2 x premierships: 1990 (SANFL), 2004 (AFL)
Best and Fairest: 2003 (AFL)
All-Australian: 2001, 2003

Alfred Edward ‘Ted’ Whelan

Player: 1948-1961
Games: 248 | Goals: 90
7x premierships: 1951, 1954-59
Best and Fairest: 1956
Greatest Team: Right back pocket

Foster Neil Williams

Player: 1950-1958
Games: 151 | Goals: 240
Best and Fairest: 1950, 1955
9x premierships: 1951, 1954-58, 1962-63, 1965
Club leading goalkicker: 1950-51, 1955
Captain-coach: 1950-58
Coach: 1962-73
Greatest Team: Rover, Captain-Coach

Mark Williams

Player: 1979-80, 1990-92
Games: 115 | Goals: 104
4x premierships as a player: 1979-80, 1990, 1992
1x premiership as coach: 2004 (AFL)
Coach: 1999-2010 (AFL)
All-Australian coach: 2004
Life member: 2002

Stephen Williams

Player: 1979-1995
Games: 269 | Goals: 288
6x premierships as a player: 1988-90, 1992,
1994-95
3x premierships as coach: 1996, 1998-99
Coach: 1996-2003

Kenneth Lloyd Zucker

Player: 1949-1959
Games: 185 | Goals: 263
6 x premierships: 1954-59

1954-59 Premiership Teams

Six premierships in a row - national record holders

John Abley, Allan Blagrove, David Boyd, John Cahill, Roger Clift, Brian Coldwell, John Dewhirst, Wallace Dittmar, Robert Fabian, Thomas Garland, David Gill, Allen Greer, John Hall, Ian Hannaford, Neville Hayes, Basil Jaggard, Rex Johns, Kimball Kelly, Brian Key, Marx Kretschmer, Brian Luke, William Mahney, Arthur Marrett, Harold McDonald, Geof Motley, Peter Obst, Trevor Obst, Colin Parham, Jeff Potter, John Robinson, James Sawford, Laurence Stevens, Donald Thompson, Kenneth Tierney, Dean Trowse, Norman Tull, Ted Whelan, Raymond Whittaker Jnr, Fos Williams, Thomas Williams, Lloyd Zucker

1962, '63 and '65 Premiership Teams

Reginald Beaufoy, Richie Bray, John Cahill, Graham Cooper, Robert Elix, Ronald Elleway, Dennis Errey, Robert Fabian, Eric Freeman, David Gill, Ian Hannaford, Neville Hayes, Rex Johns, Brian Luke, Arthur Marrett, Graham Matters, John McBain, Peter Mead, Geof Motley, Bruce Nyland, Peter Obst, Trevor Obst, Robert Philp, Jeffrey Potter, Kevin Salmon, Douglas Spiers, Steven Traynor, Graham Virgo, Fos Williams

Port Adelaide's 1963 side.

2004 Premiership Team

Michael Wilson, Darryl Wakelin, Matthew Bishop, Damien Hardwick, Chad Cornes, Brett Montgomery, Josh Mahoney, Josh Carr, Kane Cornes, Byron Pickett, Warren Tredrea (C), Peter Burgoyne, Toby Thurstans, Brendon Lade, Gavin Wanganeen, Dean Brogan, Roger James, Shaun Burgoyne, Adam Kingsley, Domenic Cassisi, Stuart Dew, Jarrad Schofield

Coach: Mark Williams
Captain: Matthew Primus