List Of Port Adelaide Football Club Players
Since becoming a member of the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1997, 137 players have represented the Port Adelaide Football Club in a senior AFL match. A senior AFL match is an Australian rules football match between two clubs that are, or have been in the past, members of the AFL. A senior AFL match is played under the laws of Australian football, and includes regular season matches, as well as finals series matches. It does not include pre-season competition matches, interstate matches or international rules football matches. The list is arranged in the order in which each player made his debut for Port Adelaide in a senior AFL match. Where more than one player made his debut in the same match, those players are listed alphabetically by surname.
Port Adelaide's first game was played against the Collingwood Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne, Victoria on 29 March 1997. In this game they scored 13 goals and nine behinds for a score of 87 points, and were defeated by Collingwood who scored 26 goals and 10 points for a score of 166 points. Port Adelaide has contested two AFL Grand Finals, and have succeeded in winning one of these Grand Finals to claim the AFL premiership in that year. Their first and only premiership was won in the 2004 AFL Grand Final. There have been 22 players who have played in a premiership-winning side for Port Adelaide.
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