Port Adelaide has repeatedly asserted itself as a dominant force within South Australian football, going undefeated in all competitions in 1914, and enjoying sustained periods of success under coaches Fos Williams and John Cahill, sharing a combined 19 premierships between them.

[12] Port Adelaide won its second SAFA premiership the following year,[13] and went on to be crowned "Champions of Australia" for the first time after defeating VFA premiers South Melbourne.

[24] The club would go on to defeat Collingwood for the 1910 Championship of Australia title,[25] and Western Australian Football League (WAFL) premiers East Fremantle in an exhibition match.

[33] The club met Victorian Football League (VFL) premiers Carlton in the Championship of Australia, defeating them by 34 points to claim a record fourth title.

After eventually winning the 1921 premiership under the captaincy of Harold Oliver,[39] many of Port Adelaide's champion players from before the war started to retire, and the club's performance declined.

[80] Weeks later, Port Adelaide, suffering from a mixture of ambition and frustration, started secret negotiations with the VFL in the town of Quorn for entry to the competition in 1991.

[81] When knowledge of Port Adelaide's negotiations to gain an AFL licence were made public, the other nine SANFL clubs called a crisis meeting to discuss options.

[83] After legal action from all parties, the AFL agreed to accept the SANFL's bid to enter the composite team, which was named the Adelaide Football Club.

[84] "These twenty blokes, everyone whose helped us, are sensational people and all the views that you have read in the press the one thing that really matters is that there will always be a Port Adelaide Football Club.

[105] Upon helping win Port Adelaide's first AFL premiership and earning the Jock McHale Medal as the coach of the premiership-winning side, an exuberant Williams took to the field after the siren and ripped off his tie in a mock choking gesture, later exclaiming during his acceptance speech: "Allan Scott, you were wrong!

[123] After the failure of the takeover, AFL Chief executive Andrew Demetriou offered $9 million over the next three years to help the club, ahead of the move to the Adelaide Oval.

The club subsequently attempted to enter a side in the SANFL Women's League (SANFLW), but this approach was rejected by the South Australian Football Commission.

[152] Australian football historian John Devaney described the forced separation of Port Adelaide's SANFL and AFL operations as being "akin to the enforced splitting up of families associated with military conquest or warfare".

[167][168] The application occurred after Port Adelaide chairperson David Koch lamented the "different rules to the other SANFL clubs which makes success difficult and frankly, has a detrimental impact on the development of our AFL players".

[171] 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.

[171] 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.

The club first adopted the guernsey in the 1902 season, after having difficulty finding magenta and blue dyes that could repeatedly last the rigours of an Australian rules football match.

[186] On 2 September 2014, the AFL cleared the club to use the guernsey in their final against Richmond, following controversy about their prior decision to have Port Adelaide wear their clash strip.

[188] The following year, Port Adelaide requested permission to permanently wear the guernsey in all future Showdown matches, but this proposal was rejected by the AFL.

The original club crest, adopted in 1900, featured a tan football and magpies perched on a gum tree with a black and white striped flag on the left and the Australian Red Ensign on the right.

The logo features the "PA" acronym, 1870 to acknowledge the foundation year, the black-and-white prison bars, the chevron design of the AFL guernsey and a teal outline.

[213][214] Port Adelaide's use of the song stemmed from a trip the club took to Anfield in November 2012 while they were in England to play an exhibition match against the Western Bulldogs.

[214] Seeing the Anfield crowd's rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone", Matthew Richardson, Port's general manager of marketing and consumer business, sought to replicate the pre-match experience.

[214][215] After foundation, it was decided by the inaugural president of Port Adelaide, John Hart Jr., that the club's home ground would be Glanville Hall Estate, a property owned by his immediate family.

[223] The ground also has the bordering Allan Scott Power Headquarters for the administration of Port Adelaide, which opened in 1999 and is named after the club's initial major sponsor.

[242] In the early 2000s, the rivalry reached its peak as the two clubs would be the most dominant of the era, meeting in multiple finals and consistently finishing at the top of the ladder from 2001 to 2004.

[306] In 2008, the club started the Aboriginal Power Cup to help promote academic and healthy outcomes for indigenous students in South Australia.

The film was made by Adelaide director Nicole Miller, who had directed the TV series The AFL Show, which explained the sport to a Chinese audience.

[319] In the Port Adelaide clubrooms at Alberton Oval there is a large wooden honour board with gold text that details every season of the club from 1870 to the present.

[324][325] Bruce Abernethy John Abley Dave Boyd Craig Bradley John Cahill Bob Clayton Angelo Congear Kane Cornes Brian Cunningham Leslie Dayman Russell Ebert Tim Evans Brian Fairclough George Fiacchi Tim Ginever Neville Hayes Scott Hodges Ron Hoffman Sampson Hosking Henry Kneebone Allan McLean Edward McMahon Geof Motley Paul Northeast Harold Oliver Greg Phillips Harold Phillips Jeffrey Potter Bob Quinn Allan Reval Llewellyn Roberts Richard Russell Darren Smith Warren Tredrea Gavin Wanganeen Edward Whelan Fos Williams Mark Williams Stephen Williams Lloyd Zucker 1954–19591962–1965 In June 2001, the Port Adelaide Football Club announced its 'Greatest Team' from the prior two centuries, consisting of the most successful players from the club.