North Adelaide

North Adelaide

Leagues Played
SANFL 46
Links
Wikipedia

Fixtures

SANFL 04/13 05:00 2 Woodville West Torrens vs North Adelaide View
SANFL 04/20 04:40 3 North Adelaide vs Sturt View
SANFL 04/27 03:40 4 North Adelaide vs Adelaide Crows - tartalék View
SANFL 05/04 04:40 5 North Adelaide vs Norwood View
SANFL 05/11 04:40 6 Port Adelaide Magpies vs North Adelaide View
SANFL 05/25 04:40 7 West Adelaide vs North Adelaide View

Results

SANFL 03/29 03:10 1 North Adelaide v Central District View
SANFL 08/26 04:40 18 North Adelaide v Sturt 73-100
SANFL 08/19 04:40 17 North Adelaide v Central District 58-60
SANFL 08/13 04:40 16 Woodville West Torrens v North Adelaide 65-80
SANFL 07/30 04:40 15 North Adelaide v Glenelg 45-75
SANFL 07/22 04:40 14 North Adelaide v Norwood 48-40
SANFL 07/15 04:40 13 Port Adelaide Magpies v North Adelaide 91-53
SANFL 07/08 04:40 12 South Adelaide v North Adelaide 30-45
SANFL 07/02 04:40 11 North Adelaide v Adelaide Crows - tartalék 66-57
SANFL 06/30 02:30 11 North Adelaide v Adelaide Crows - tartalék PPT.
SANFL 06/18 04:40 10 Sturt v North Adelaide 67-51
SANFL 06/10 03:40 9 West Adelaide v North Adelaide 68-39

The North Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Roosters, is an Australian rules football club affiliated with the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and SANFL Women's League (SANFLW). The club plays its home games at Prospect Oval, located in Prospect, a northern suburb of Adelaide. The club joined the SAFA in 1888 as the Medindie Football Club (nickname Dindies and from 1890s Dingoes), changing its name to North Adelaide in 1893. It is the fourth oldest club still in operation in the SANFL after South Adelaide (1877), Port Adelaide (1877) and Norwood (1878). North Adelaide's first premiership was won in 1900 (which finally broke the dominance of the 3 older clubs), and the club has won a total of fourteen senior men's premierships in the SANFL, most recently in 2018.

History

The 1905 NAFC team.

In 1880 a group of schoolboys from Prince Alfred College and the now defunct Whinham College got together and played football on a section of the Park Lands, previously known as Hawker’s Paddock. It was so called locally because it was leased from the City of Adelaide by George Hawker, a well known citizen of the suburb of Medindie. The schoolboys dubbed their football team the Medindie Football Club. They wore the red and white colours of Prince Alfred College and played other football teams on the site. One of those schoolboys was Charles Nitschke who would become Captain of the Medindie Club and would be known as the founding Father of North Adelaide Football Club.

One of the club's first reported games were in May 1882 against Prince Alfred and St Peters Colleges Second Twenties both on Medindie's home ground.

Medindie was a foundation member in 1885 of the South Australian Junior Football Association, before being admitted to the Adelaide and Suburban Football Association in 1886.

At the Annual General Meeting on 16 March 1888, held at the Red Lion Hotel, the Secretary Charles Nitschke was elected a Life Member for his valuable services to the Club.

At the start of 1888, during a split of the SAFA, the Medindie Club was invited to join with Port Adelaide, South Adelaide and the Old Adelaide Club into forming a new Senior South Australia Football Association. Once the dispute was settled the Club was still invited to join the senior Association for the 1888 SAFA season.

On 14 March 1893, at a meeting held at Temperance Hall, Tynte Street, North Adelaide it was unanimously decided to renamed itself from Medindie to North Adelaide. Although several other early clubs, including Victorians and Hothams which used the name of "North Adelaide" prior to 1893, none of them bore ties to the current club.

North Adelaide started playing at Prospect Oval from 1922 with the first game of the season on Monday 8 May 1922 against Glenelg and it has remained their home ground ever since.

North Adelaide competed in the first match played at Football Park (now known as AAMI Stadium) in round 5, 1974. Their opponent was Central District. The match was won by Central District.

The longest serving coach for the club is Michael Nunan – 12 seasons from 1981 to 1992.[]

The Captain's record is held by Ian McKay, captaining the team for 8 years from 1948–1955.[]

The North Adelaide Football Club officially renamed both ends of Prospect Oval in 2012 after the two official Icons of the Club. The northern end around the goals was named the "Ken Farmer End", while the southern end was named the "Barrie Robran End".

South Australian Football Hall of Fame and Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee Jack 'Dinny' Reedman and future North Adelaide Premiership Captain began his career at Medindie in 1884.

North Adelaide was a foundation member of the SANFL Women's competition in 2017. The Roosters lost two grand finals in the league before eventually claiming their maiden women's premiership in 2020.