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Sporting Clubs In Adelaide
The following sports clubs are in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. Athletics * Adelaide University Athletics Club *Adelaide Eagles Little Athletics Club *Flinders Athletics Club Australian rules football Australian Football League (AFL) *Adelaide Crows *Port Adelaide Football Club South Australian National Football League (SANFL) *Central District Bulldogs *Glenelg Football Club *North Adelaide Roosters *Norwood Football Club *Port Adelaide Football Club *South Adelaide Football Club *Sturt Football Club *West Adelaide Football Club *Woodville-West Torrens Football Club Adelaide Footy League *Adelaide University Football Club * Broadview Football Club *Gepps Cross Football Club *Henley Football Club * Modbury Football Club * Port District Football Club *Salisbury North * GAZA, Premiers 2011 * Goodwood Saints *Edwardstown Football Club * Smithfield Football Club * Portland Football Club * Rosewater Football Club * Golden Grove Football Club *Kenilworth Football Club * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre; the demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, traditional owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna, with the name referring to the area of the city centre and surrounding Adelaide Park Lands, Park Lands, in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadview Football Club
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Unley Jets Football Club
Unley is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, within the City of Unley. The suburb is the home of the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Unley neighbours Adelaide Park Lands, Fullarton, Hyde Park, Malvern, Parkside and Wayville. The boundaries of Unley are Greenhill Road (north), Unley Road, Maud Street and Windsor Street (east), Cremorne Street and Opey Avenue (south) and King William Road (west). Unley is the family name of the wife of Thomas Whistler, owner of land in Unley which was laid out around 1857. History Prior to British colonisation of South Australia, Unley was home to the Aboriginal nation known as the Kaurna, or Adelaide Plains tribe. Settlement by colonists began in the mid-19th century, with arrivals predominantly from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and to a small extent German speaking lands. At this time a small number of other ethnic groups also appeared. The land was cleared of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenilworth Football Club
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Golden Grove Football Club
The Golden Grove Football Club, more commonly known as the Kookaburras, is an Australian Rules Football Club based in the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide that was formed in 1995. The club is based at Harper's Field, located on One Tree Hill Road in the northern suburbs of Adelaide. Golden Grove's five men's senior teams compete in the Adelaide Footy League Division 1, Division 1 Reserves, Division C1, C6 & C7 competitions. Its women's teams compete in the Adelaide Footy League Women's Division 1, & Division 1 Reserves competitions, whilst its junior teams compete in the SANFL Juniors competition. History The football club lobbied for a long time to find a permanent home, with the club outgrowing its temporary home at the Greenwith Oval & Greenwith Community Centre within the first two years, after rapidly growing junior numbers. Despite this, the council, unfortunately, had nowhere else for the club to move to, and the club had to wait until 2001 before a decision to move fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosewater Football Club
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Portland Football Club (South Australia)
The Portland Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in the western suburbs of Adelaide which was formed in 1997 as a merger between the former Alberton United Football Club, Ethelton Football Club and Riverside Football Club. The club has participated in the South Australian Amateur Football League since being formed. A-Grade Premierships * South Australian Amateur Football League Division 2 (1) ** 2013 * South Australian Amateur Football League Division 4 (2) ** 2000 ** 2008 Merger history Portland Football Club was formed in 1997 from a merger of Alberton United, Ethelton and Riverside. Alberton United The Alberton United Football Club was formed in 1915 as the Alberton Church United Football Club based at Queenstown Oval. Initially playing in the Port Adelaide and Suburban Football Association, Alberton Church United shifted to the South Australian Amateur Football League (SAAFL) in 1931. In 1941, they went into recess due to World War II, bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smithfield Football Club
Smithfield may refer to: Places Australia *Electoral district of Smithfield, a former electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly *Smithfield, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney *Smithfield, Queensland, a northern suburb of Cairns *Smithfield, South Australia, a northern suburb of Adelaide ** Smithfield railway station, Adelaide * Smithfield Memorial Park, in Evanston South, South Australia * Smithfield State High School Canada *Smithfield, Toronto, a neighbourhood of Toronto Hong Kong *Smithfield, Hong Kong, a road Ireland *Smithfield, Dublin New Zealand * Smithfield, New Zealand, industrial suburb of Timaru South Africa *Smithfield, Free State South America * Smithfield, Suriname United Kingdom *Smithfield, Cumbria *Smithfield, London (sometimes referred to as West Smithfield) **Smithfield Market *East Smithfield, London *Smithfield, Birmingham United States *Smithfield, a city neighborhood in Ensley, Birmingham, Alabama *Smithfield, Illinois *Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwardstown Football Club
The Edwardstown Football Club is an Australian rules football club first formed in 1919. In 1938, Edwardstown merged with the Black Forest Football Club from the Adelaide and Suburban Football Association but retained the name Edwardstown. For much of the first 60 years of its existence, the Edwardstown Football Club competed in the Glenelg-South Adelaide District Football League (previously known as the Glenelg-South-West District Football Association and the Mid-Southern Football Association), except for two seasons spent in the Adelaide and Suburban Football Association (1934–35). In 1978, Edwardstown was a key player in the establishment of the South Australian Football Association (SAFA), a semi-professional league drawing on the stronger clubs of the former Norwood-North Football Association and some other strong metropolitan clubs. Edwardstown won four premierships during the 18 years that the SAFA completion ran. When SAFA folded at the end of the 1995 season, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodwood Saints
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Salisbury North
Salisbury North is a suburb in the City of Salisbury, part of the greater Adelaide conurbation in South Australia. It was built by the South Australian Housing Trust on a greenfield site in the early 1950s, mainly to house employees of the nearby Long Range Weapons Establishment. It is bounded on the north by the Adelaide–Port Augusta railway line; on the east by the Gawler railway line; on the south by the Little Para River and Waterloo Corner Road; and on the west by Bolivar Road. Establishment of the housing estate In 1947 the Commonwealth Government established the Long Range Weapons Establishment (LRWE) in partnership with the United Kingdom Government as a facility for research and development of rocket-propelled weapons. The support base for the rocket range at Woomera was at Penfield (), on the northern side of the Adelaide-Port Augusta railway line, where a large munitions manufacturing complex had been built in 1941, from the small rural centre of Salisbury. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
