The following is a list of players who have captained the Port Adelaide Football Club at a game of Australian rules football in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 1997, the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and earlier iterations of competition between 1870 and 1996, and the AFL Women's (AFLW) since 2022. History Tradition dictates that the captain of the Port Adelaide Football Club wear the number one guernsey – this started when Clifford Keal wore the number as club captain for the first time in 1924. The tradition was cemented, at least in the view of then-secretary Charles Hayter, when in 1929 he received a letter from a junior Kilkenny player requesting a number one Port Adelaide guernsey as he had just become captain of his underage team. Hayter granted the wish of the junior and provided him with a number one Port Adelaide guernsey. Since 1924, there have been few exceptions to the tradition. The most notable exception was Geof Motley, who followed the captaincy of Fos Williams. Following his appointment as captain-coach, Motley elected to continue wearing the number 17, and continued to do so for the remainder of his career. When Motley handed the captaincy to John Cahill in 1967, at the insistence of coach Fos Williams, the tradition of Port Adelaide captains wearing the number one guernsey resumed. When co-captains were appointed for the 2019 season the No. 1 guernsey was temporarily retired, but it was re-instated the following season when the club returned to appointing a single captain.
SANFL Foundation eraNoYearCaptain11870John Wald2 1870George Dale3 1871Fred Stone4 1872–1873George Middleton5 1873H.Sparnon61874John Rann7 1874Charles Wells8 1875Robert Sandilands9 1876William Fletcher South Australian Football Association eraYearCaptain 1877–1879William Fletcher10 1880John A.Atkins 111880 Joseph Carter 1881William Fletcher12 1881J.H.Sandilands131882Nathaniel Frayne14 1882Charles Kellett15 1883Ernest Le Messurier161883–1885Richard Turpenny 1885Charles Kellett17 1886–1889William Bushby18 1890–1894Ken McKenzie19 1895Alfred Miers1896–1898Ken McKenzie20 1899–1900Harold Phillips21 1901–1904Archibald Hosie22 1904–1905Jack Quinn23 1906Jack Fletcher 24 1906Lewis Corston South Australian Football League eraYearCaptain 1907Lewis Corston25 1908Ted Strawns 26 1908–1909Mick Donaghy27 1910Jack Woollard28 1911George Dempster29 1912Clifford Cocks 301912Sampson Hosking31 1913–1914Jack Londrigan32 1915Alexander McFarlane World War One 1919Alexander McFarlane33 1919Horrie Pope 34 1920John W. Robertson 351920Bert Olds36 1921Harold Oliver37 1922Samuel Howie38 1923Clement Dayman39 1924–1925Clifford Keal40 1926Maurice Allingham South Australian National Football League eraYearCaptain41 1927Peter Bampton42 1928–1931Victor Johnson43 1932–1933Sydney Ween1934Victor Johnson44 1935Robert Johnson45 1936–1937Jack Dermody46 1938Ned Hender47 1939–1940Robert Quinn48 1940–1941Allan Reval Patriotic League begins49 1942–1944Llewellyn Roberts Patriotic League ends1945–1947Robert Quinn501948Llewellyn Roberts51 1949Reginald Schumann52 1950–1958Fos Williams53 1959–1966Geof Motley54 1967–1973John Cahill55 1974–1978Russell Ebert56 1979–1982Brian Cunningham1983–1985Russell Ebert57 1986–1990 Russell Johnston58 1991–1993Greg Phillips59 1994–1996Tim Ginever
AFL YearCaptain60 1997–2000 Gavin Wanganeen 61 2001–2005 Matthew Primus 622006–2008 Warren Tredrea 63 2009–2012 Domenic Cassisi 64 2013–2018 Travis Boak 65, 66 2019 Ollie Wines/Tom Jonas66 2020–2023 Tom Jonas67 2024– Connor Rozee
AFL Women's AFLWNoYearCaptain 1 2022 (S7)–2023 Erin Phillips 2 2024 Janelle Cuthbertson 3 2025– Justine Mules-Robinson
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