Adam Kingsley (born 20 August 1975) is a former

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er and senior coach of the

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in the

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(AFL). Kingsley was a premiership player for , before spending time as an assistant coach at and .

Playing career

Port Adelaide

Originally from Eastern Ranges, he was playing for the

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's reserves team, before being recruited by

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. Debuting in the

Port Adelaide Football Club Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where they are nicknamed ...

's inaugural 1997 AFL side, Kingsley was known as a consistent defender/midfielder. He struggled in 2003, coming close to being delisted, but improved his form and cemented a spot during 2004, being a premiership player that year after working his way back into the side. 2005 saw another consistent season from Kingsley, however, he played just five games in 2006, which cast doubts over his career. In his fifth game in Round 22, he injured his anterior cruciate ligament, which forced his retirement. He said in '' The Age'' on 12 September 2006, that he had hoped to continue playing in 2007 before the injury. Kingsley played a total of 170 games and kicked a total of 47 goals for

from 1997 until 2006, and was a member of the Port Adelaide premiership side in 2004.

Coaching career

Assistant coaching (2007–2022)

In 2007, Kingsley became an assistant coach at

, a position in which he stayed in until the end of 2010. He then joined St Kilda at the end of the 2010 season as an assistant coach, staying at the club until 2018 before joining as an assistant coach in 2019.

Greater Western Sydney senior coach (2023–present)

Kingsley was named senior coach of on 22 August 2022. Kingsley replaced GWS caretaker senior coach Mark McVeigh, who coached the Giants after

Leon Cameron Leon Cameron (born 2 September 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer who is the former senior coach of the Greater Western Sydney Giants (GWS) in the Australian Football League (AFL). His AFL playing career lasted from 1990 to 2003 an ...

stepped down in the middle of the 2022 season.

Media work

In March 2006, Kingsley won ''

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'', a

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quiz show special. He donated the $20,000 that he won to the

McGuinness-McDermott Foundation The Little Heroes Foundation, previously the McGuinness McDermott Foundation, was launched in May 1996 in memory of five-year-old Nicholas Berry, and seven-year-old Nathan Maclean who died of cancer. The Foundation raises funds to improve oncolog ...

(run by former Adelaide footballers Tony McGuinness and Chris McDermott).

Statistics

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

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2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

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2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

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2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

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References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kingsley, Adam Port Adelaide Football Club players Port Adelaide Football Club Premiership players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) John Cahill Medal winners 1975 births Living people Eastern Ranges players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players