List of Port Adelaide Football Club coaches

The following is a list of the head coaches of the Port Adelaide Football Club, an Australian rules football club who have coached the club in the SAFA, SAFL, Wartime Leagues, SANFL and the AFL (1997–present). Since 1870 Port Adelaide has had 39 head coaches lead the club.

Port Adelaide Football Club coaches
Foundation era
No.	Coach	Coached	Won	Lost	Drew	Win %	Years
1	John Wald	3	0	2	1	00.00	1870
2	Fred Stone						1871
3	George Middleton						1872
4	H. Sparnon						1873
5	John Rann						1874
6	Robert Sandilands						1875
7	William Fletcher						1876
South Australian Football Association era
No.	Coach	Coached	Won	Lost	Drew	Win %	Years
	William Fletcher	35	19	8	8	54.29	1877-1879
8	J.A. Atkins	11	3	3	5	27.27	1880
9	J.H. Sandilands	13	2	6	5	15.38	1881
10	Charles Kellett	14	7	7	0	50.00	1882
11	Richard Turpenny	44	24	15	5	54.55	1883-1885
12	Jack McGargill	366	236	116	14	64.48	1886-1908
South Australian Football League era
No.	Coach	Coached	Won	Lost	Drew	Win %	Years
	Jack McGargill	See Above					1886-1908
13	Archibald Hosie (1)	30	23	7	0	76.67	1909-1910
14	Mick Donaghy						1911
15	Jack Woollard						1911
16	Sampson Hosking (1)	14	12	2	0	85.71	1912
17	Jack Londrigan	28	26	2	0	92.86	1913-1914
18	Alexander McFarlane	14	9	4	1	64.29	1915
Play suspended due to WWI
19	Frank Hansen	26	14	11	1	53.85	1919-1920
	Sampson Hosking (2)	17	13	4	0	76.47	1921
20	Samuel Howie	14	7	7	0	50.00	1922
21	Clement Dayman	14	5	9	0	35.71	1923
	Archibald Hosie (2)	30	19	11	0	63.33	1924-1925
22	Maurice Allingham	15	10	5	0	66.67	1926
South Australian National Football League era
No.	Coach	Coached	Won	Lost	Drew	Win %	Years
	Sampson Hosking (3)	96	66	29	1	68.75	1927-1931
23	Sydney Ween	18	10	8	0	55.56	1932
24	Len Ashby	38	24	13	1	63.16	1934-1935
	Sampson Hosking (4)	59	43	16	0	72.88	1936-1938
25	Robert Quinn (1)						1939-1940
26	Allan Reval						1940-1941
WWII Patriotic League (merger with West Torrens)
No.	Coach	Coached	Won	Lost	Drew	Win %	Years
	Sampson Hosking (5)						1942-1944
Competition returns to un-aligned teams
No.	Coach	Coached	Won	Lost	Drew	Win %	Years
	Robert Quinn (2)	58	43	15	0	74.14	1945-1947
27	Lew Roberts	17	4	13	0	23.53	1948
28	Jack McCarthy	17	7	10	0	41.18	1949
29	Fos Williams (1)	180	145	34	1	80.56	1950-1958
30	Geof Motley	62	48	14	0	77.42	1959-1961
	Fos Williams (2)	267	188	78	1	70.41	1962-1973
31	John Cahill (1)	216	158	54	4	73.15	1974-1982
32	Russell Ebert	116	64	52	0	55.17	1983-1987
	John Cahill (2)	205	153	52	0	74.63	1988-1996
33	Stephen Williams (caretaker)	12	8	4	0	66.67	1996
AFL era
No.	Coach	Coached	Won	Lost	Drew	Win %	Years
	John Cahill (3)	44	19	23	2	45.45	1997–1998
34	Mark Williams	274	151	121	2	55.47	1999–2010
35	Phil Walsh	1	1	0	0	100	2001
36	Matthew Primus	47	13	34	0	27.66	2010–2012
37	Garry Hocking (caretaker)	4	0	3	1	00.00	2012
38	Ken Hinkley	230	135	95	0	58.70%	2013–present
39	Alan Richardson (caretaker)	1	0	1	0	00.00	2013

v t e Port Adelaide Football Club
Nickname: Power (AFL/AFLW), Magpies (SANFL) History Drafting and trading history Records Club achievements Players (pre-1997) Players (post-1997) Current squad Captains Coaches Awards John Cahill Medal Leading goalkickers AFL coach: Ken Hinkley AFL captain: Connor Rozee AFLW coach: Lauren Arnell AFLW captain: Janelle Cuthbertson
AFL home grounds	Football Park (1997–2013) Adelaide Oval (2014–)
SAFA/SAFL/SANFL home grounds	Glanville Estate (1870–1879) Alberton Oval (1880–1974, 1977–) Adelaide Oval (1975–1976)
AFLW home grounds	Alberton Oval (2022–) Adelaide Oval (2022–)
AFL premierships (1)	2004
SAFA/SAFL/SANFL premierships (37)	1884 1890 1897 1903 1906 1910 1913 1914 1921 1928 1936 1937 1939 1942 1951 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1962 1963 1965 1977 1979 1980 1981 1988 1989 1990 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999
Seasons	1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
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The club participated in the SAPFL while the SAFL was in recess from 1916–1918; The club merged with West Torrens from 1942–1944.

v t e Coaches of the Port Adelaide Football Club
Men's	1870: Wald 1871: Stone 1872: Middleton 1873: Sparnon 1874: Rann 1875: R. Sandilands 1876–1879: Fletcher 1880: Atkins 1881: J. Sandilands 1882: Kellett 1883–1885: Turpenny 1886–1908: McGargill 1909–1910: Hosie 1911: Donaghy 1911: Woollard 1913–1914: Londrigan 1915: McFarlane 1919–1920: Hansen 1921: Hosking 1922: Howie 1923: Dayman 1924–1925: Hosie 1927–1931: Hosking 1932: Ween 1933: Dewar 1934–1935: Ashby 1936–1938: Hosking 1939–1940: Quinn 1940–1941: Reval 1942–1944: Hosking 1945–1947: Quinn 1948: Roberts 1949: McCarthy 1950–1958: F. Williams 1959–1966: Motley 1962–1973: F. Williams 1974–1982: Cahill 1983–1987: Ebert 1988–1996: Cahill 1996: S. Williams 1997–1998: Cahill 1999–2010: M. Williams 2010–2012: Primus 2012: Hocking 2013–: Hinkley
Women's	2022 (S7)–: Arnell
Italics denote caretaker coach

List of Port Adelaide Football Club coaches

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