2017 Port Adelaide Football Club season

The 2017 Port Adelaide Football Club season was the Port Adelaide Football Club's 21st season in the AFL. They also fielded a reserves team in the South Australian National Football League.

AFL

Main article: 2017 AFL season

List changes

Main article: 2016 AFL draft

Retirements and delistings

Player	Date	Reason	Career games	Career goals	Ref.
Jay Schulz	25 August 2016	Delisted	193	330	[1]
John Butcher	30 August 2016	Delisted	31	41	[2]
Sam Colquhoun	30 August 2016	Delisted	16	3	[2]
Kane Mitchell	30 August 2016	Delisted	35	19	[2]
Alipate Carlile	31 August 2016	Retired	167	5	[3]
Paul Stewart	24 October 2016	Delisted	101	33	[4]
Cam O'Shea	30 October 2016	Delisted	81	7	[5]

Trades

Date	Gained	From	Lost	Ref.
18 October 2016	Pick 19	Brisbane Lions	2017 first round pick (Port Adelaide)	[6]
	Pick 30	Gold Coast	Pick 67
20 October 2016	Pick 14 Pick 17 Pick 31	Sydney	Pick 9 Pick 19 Pick 49	[7]

National draft

Round	Pick	Player	Recruited from	League	Ref.
1	16	Todd Marshall	Murray Bushrangers	TAC Cup	[8]
1	18	Sam Powell-Pepper	East Perth	WAFL
2	32	Joe Atley	Bendigo Pioneers	TAC Cup
2	33	Willem Drew	North Ballarat Rebels	TAC Cup
Rookie elevation		Nathan Krakouer	Port Adelaide	AFL	[9]

Rookie draft

Round	Pick	Player	Recruited from	League	Ref.
1	9	Peter Ladhams	Norwood	SANFL
2	26	Brett Eddy	South Adelaide	SANFL
3	42	Jarrod Lienert	Sturt	SANFL
Category B		Emmanuel Irra	South Adelaide	SANFL	[10]

Squad

Port Adelaide Football Club

Senior List						Rookie list		Coaching Staff
1 Travis Boak (c)  2 Sam Powell-Pepper  3 Jake Neade  4 Paddy Ryder  5 Matthew Broadbent  6 Angus Monfries  7 Brad Ebert  8 Hamish Hartlett  9 Robbie Gray 11 Aaron Young 12 Jackson Trengove 13 Todd Marshall 14 Billy Frampton 15 Karl Amon 16 Ollie Wines (vc) 17 Tom Clurey 18 Jimmy Toumpas 19 Matthew White 20 Chad Wingard		21 Jared Polec 22 Charlie Dixon 23 Matthew Lobbe 24 Jarman Impey 25 Logan Austin 26 Riley Bonner 28 Joe Atley 29 Jasper Pittard 30 Willem Drew 31 Aidyn Johnson 32 Dougal Howard 33 Darcy Byrne-Jones 36 Jack Hombsch 37 Jesse Palmer 39 Justin Westhoff 41 Brendon Ah Chee 42 Tom Jonas 46 Sam Gray 48 Nathan Krakouer				27 Brett Eddy 34 Will Snelling 38 Peter Ladhams 40 Jarrod Lienert 43 Dan Houston 44 Cameron Hewett 45 Emmanuel Irra (B)		Head coach Ken Hinkley Assistant coaches Matthew Nicks (senior assistant) Michael Voss (midfield manager) Brendon Lade (forward/ruck) Nathan Bassett (defence) Aaron Greaves (head of development) Stuart Cochrane (midfield development) Trent Hentschel (forward development) Jacob Surjan (defence development) Chad Cornes (SANFL coach) Mark Clayton (academy coach) Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice-captain(s) Upgraded rookie(s) (B) Category B rookie Updated: 15 March 2017 Source(s): Playing list, Coaching staff

Season summary

Pre-season

Main article: 2017 JLT Community Series

Rd	Date and local time	Opponent	Scores (Port Adelaide's scores indicated in bold)			Venue	Attendance	Ref.
			Home	Away	Result
1	Thursday, 23 February (7:40 pm)	St Kilda	0.8.9 (57)	0.7.14 (56)	Lost by 1 point	Etihad Stadium (A)	5,363	[11]
2	Sunday, 5 March (4:10 pm)	Richmond	0.7.9 (51)	0.11.13 (79)	Lost by 28 points	Malseed Park, Mount Gambier (H)	4,649	[12]
3	Sunday, 12 March (12:40 pm)	Hawthorn	0.14.12 (96)	1.8.11 (68)	Won by 28 points	Hickinbotham Oval (H)	5,628	[13]

Home and Away season

Rd	Date and local time	Opponent	Scores (Port Adelaide's scores indicated in bold)			Venue	Attendance	Ref.
			Home	Away	Result
1	Saturday, 25 March (4:35 pm)	Sydney	12.10 (82)	17.8 (110)	Won by 28 points	SCG (A)	33,129	[14]
2	Sunday, 2 April (4:10 pm)	Fremantle	22.13 (145)	8.8 (56)	Won by 89 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	38,388	[15]
3	Saturday, 8 April (7:10 pm)	Adelaide	12.11 (83)	15.10 (100)	Lost by 17 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	53,698	[16]
4	Saturday, 15 April (4:35 pm)	Greater Western Sydney	16.16 (112)	11.15 (81)	Lost by 31 points	UNSW Canberra Oval (A)	9,185	[17]
5	Friday, 21 April (7:20 pm)	Carlton	20.17 (137)	6.11 (47)	Won by 90 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	43,120	[18]
6	Saturday, 29 April (4:35 pm)	Brisbane Lions	10.7 (67)	22.18 (150)	Won by 83 points	Gabba (A)	13,638	[19]
7	Saturday, 6 May (4:05 pm)	West Coast	12.15 (87)	15.7 (97)	Lost by 10 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	38,333	[20]
8	Sunday, 14 May (1:15 pm)	Gold Coast	4.14 (38)	16.14 (110)	Won by 72 points	Jiangwan Stadium, Shanghai (A)	10,118	[21]
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10	Thursday, 25 May (7:20 pm)	Geelong	11.15 (81)	11.13 (79)	Lost by 2 points	Simonds Stadium (A)	24,909	[22]
11	Thursday, 1 June (7:20 pm)	Hawthorn	13.20 (98)	7.5 (47)	Won by 41 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	37,910	[23]
12	Saturday, 10 June (7:25 pm)	Essendon	19.17 (131)	8.13 (61)	Lost by 72 points	Etihad Stadium (A)	34,022	[24]
13	Saturday, 17 June (4:05 pm)	Brisbane Lions	18.13 (121)	12.9 (81)	Won by 40 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	31,772	[25]
14	Saturday, 24 June (1:45 pm)	Collingwood	9.8 (62)	13.15 (93)	Won by 31 points	MCG (A)	35,933	[26]
15	Saturday, 1 July (7:10 pm)	Richmond	8.15 (63)	11.10 (76)	Lost by 13 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	39,979	[27]
16	Sunday, 9 July (2:40 pm)	West Coast	13.10 (88)	18.12 (120)	Won by 32 points	Domain Stadium (A)	36,766	[28]
17	Saturday, 15 July (1:40 pm)	North Melbourne	19.13 (127)	8.9 (57)	Won by 70 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	34,138	[29]
18	Saturday, 22 July (2:10 pm)	Melbourne	13.10 (88)	9.11 (65)	Lost by 23 points	MCG (A)	27,068	[30]
19	Saturday, 29 July (4:05 pm)	St Kilda	9.9 (63)	8.13 (61)	Won by 2 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	30,335	[31]
20	Sunday, 6 August (4:10 pm)	Adelaide	18.22 (130)	7.4 (46)	Lost by 84 points	Adelaide Oval (A)	45,028	[32]
21	Sunday, 13 August (4:10 pm)	Collingwood	14.14 (98)	10.11 (71)	Won by 27 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	37,533	[33]
22	Saturday, 19 August (1:45 pm)	Western Bulldogs	11.13 (79)	14.12 (96)	Won by 17 points	Mars Stadium (A)	10,087	[34]
23	Saturday, 26 August (7:10 pm)	Gold Coast	20.15 (135)	3.2 (20)	Won by 115 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	34,288	[35]

Finals

Main article: 2017 AFL finals series

Rd	Date and local time	Opponent	Scores (Port Adelaide's scores indicated in bold)			Venue	Attendance	Ref.
			Home	Away	Result
EF1	Saturday, 9 September (7:20 pm)	West Coast	10.16 (76)	12.6 (78)	Lost by 2 points	Adelaide Oval (H)	41,172	[36]

Ladder

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	D	PF	PA	PP	Pts	Qualification
1	Adelaide	22	15	6	1	2415	1776	136.0	62	2017 finals
2	Geelong	22	15	6	1	2134	1818	117.4	62
3	Richmond (P)	22	15	7	0	1992	1684	118.3	60
4	Greater Western Sydney	22	14	6	2	2081	1812	114.8	60
5	Port Adelaide	22	14	8	0	2168	1671	129.7	56
6	Sydney	22	14	8	0	2093	1651	126.8	56
7	Essendon	22	12	10	0	2135	2004	106.5	48
8	West Coast	22	12	10	0	1964	1858	105.7	48
9	Melbourne	22	12	10	0	2035	1934	105.2	48
10	Western Bulldogs	22	11	11	0	1857	1913	97.1	44
11	St Kilda	22	11	11	0	1925	1986	96.9	44
12	Hawthorn	22	10	11	1	1864	2055	90.7	42
13	Collingwood	22	9	12	1	1944	1963	99.0	38
14	Fremantle	22	8	14	0	1607	2160	74.4	32
15	North Melbourne	22	6	16	0	1983	2264	87.6	24
16	Carlton	22	6	16	0	1594	2038	78.2	24
17	Gold Coast	22	6	16	0	1756	2311	76.0	24
18	Brisbane Lions	22	5	17	0	1877	2526	74.3	20

Source: AFL
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

SANFL

Main article: 2017 SANFL season

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	D	PF	PA	PP	Pts
1	Woodville-West Torrens	18	14	4	0	1379	1132	54.92	28
2	Port Adelaide	18	13	5	0	1834	1226	59.93	26
3	Sturt (P)	18	12	5	1	1535	1263	54.86	25
4	Norwood	18	10	7	1	1539	1482	50.94	21
5	Central District	18	8	10	0	1477	1433	50.76	16
6	South Adelaide	18	8	10	0	1314	1404	48.34	16
7	Glenelg	18	8	10	0	1372	1535	47.20	16
8	Adelaide	18	7	11	0	1359	1527	47.09	14
9	West Adelaide	18	5	13	0	1210	1666	42.07	10
10	North Adelaide	18	4	14	0	1280	1631	43.97	8

Source: australianfootball.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

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