The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed The Crows, is a professional Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 club based in Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

, South Australia

South Australia

South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

, playing in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 (AFL).

The club was formed in 1990 as a composite team owned by the SANFL and played its first game in the 1991 season

1991 AFL season

Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 1991.See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.-National Cup:...

. The Crows are the only club in VFL/AFL history to have played in, but never lost a Grand Final, and are also one of only two VFL/AFL clubs (the other being ) to have never finished last at the conclusion of a regular season.

The club is currently captained by Nathan van Berlo

Nathan van Berlo

Nathan van Berlo is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . He is the captain of the Adelaide Football Club....

 and coached by Brenton Sanderson

Brenton Sanderson

Brenton Sanderson is a former Australian rules footballer and the senior coach of the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League .-Early career:...

, who was appointed senior coach after both Neil Craig

Neil Craig

Neil P. Craig is a former Australian rules footballer, fitness adviser and former coach of the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League . As of 2012, he will be based in a new role as the Director of Sports Performance at the Melbourne Football Club...

's resignation after round 18 of the 2011 season

2011 AFL season

The 2011 Australian Football League season was the 115th season of the Australian rules football competition. It was the debut year for , and was scheduled to be the only season to be played with 17 teams...

 and caretaker coach Mark Bickley

Mark Bickley

Mark Alan Bickley is an Australian rules football coach of the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League . Before becoming a coach, Bickley was a player for the Crows from 1991 until 2003, captaining the team to both the 1997 and 1998 AFL premierships and media commentator, most notably...

's overlooking for the position.

The club is based at Football Park in West Lakes and the club song is "The Pride of South Australia", to the tune of the Marines' Hymn

Marines' Hymn

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.

The Crows won both the 1997

1997 AFL Grand Final

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 and 1998

1998 AFL Grand Final

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 Grand Finals and have appeared in eleven finals series in its 21 year history.