Sport
Port Adelaide is home to the Port Adelaide Football Club, an Australian rules football team, though the teams' grounds are outside the suburb's boundaries. It competed in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1870 until 1996, and in the Australian Football League AFL since 1997. The club was awarded the second AFL licence South Australia. It had won 34 SANFL Premierships before its move to the AFL. After moving a side bearing the club's original nickname, the Port Adelaide Magpies, was established in the SANFL and has since won two Premierships.
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