Club history
A South Australian National Football League, who ran a local competition, got been looking to enter a team within what was so the Victorian Football League since 1981. Lengthy negotiations were bring back a head inside 1990 fallowing an SANFL team, the Port Adelaide Football Club, reached agreement with a AFL to enter their competition. Legal action followed, & yet a league agreed to enter a composite Adelaide team within 1991.

A Crows did non require hanker to achieve profits, winning back-to-back premierships around 1997 and 1998 under coach Malcolm Blight. Their fans base hwhen quickly developed a distinct character of its have, caricatured as chardonnay-sipping yuppies contrastive by owning a working class Port Adelaide Power which did at length enter the AFL competition inside 1997. Contention between a players & supporters of the deuce Adelaide teams is fierce, using an edge non present in the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers situation in Perth. inside of these occasion, the meeting between players of the deuce teams within an Adelaide bar resulted in the widely-reported brawl. Several Crows fans resent a dominance that Port Adelaide achieved within a SANFL & until a Power won their number one AFL title in 2004, greatly enjoyed a fact that their AFL team experienced tasted a ultimate profits when the Power got non.

A club is depending at AAMI Stadium (formerly Football Park) around West Streams, lakes, & wells throughout and a club song is "The Pride of South Australia", which is according to a tune of the United States Marine Corps Hymn. Renowned players include Mark Ricciuto, Andrew and Darren Jarman, Andrew McLeod and Tony Modra. A club is presently coached by Neil Craig, who replaced Gary Ayres when he resigned mid-season within 2004. Craig, at first the caretaker coach, was later on appointed to the position for good from either 2005 forward.

Awards

Premierships

1997 1998

Adelaide won premierships 2 years within the row.

Brownlow Medal winners

Mark Ricciuto, 2003 (co-winner)

Coleman Medal winners

Tony Modra, 1997 (81 goals)

Norm Smith Medal winners

Andrew McLeod, 1997 Andrew McLeod, 1998

"Team of the Decade"

When a select few sides known as their "Team of the Century" to co-incide by owning a AFL centennial celebrations within 1996, Adelaide only joined a league around 1991, and so later known as their "Team of the Decade", covering a cycle from either 1991 to 2000.

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2005 season/finals
Adelaide will have their better residence & away year inside the history of the club in 2005 when fininshing in top of the ladder. Adelaide went into the finals in a 10 bet on winning streak, although that ended in the number 1 qualifying final against St.Kilda. a loss install a game against piercingly cross-crosstown competitor Port Adelaide which Adelaide won convincingly (final margin of 83 points occurs as club record winning margin against the Power). Even so, the as punishment preliminary final loss against a West Coast Eagles ended a Crows premiership hopes despite a survive quater comeback.