The Adelaide Crows play their first home game of the NAB 2025 AFLW Season at Unley Oval on Sunday against Geelong.

It’s a game that also celebrates the milestone 10^th season for the Crows.

Across nine previous seasons, the Crows have won three premierships, been runner-up once and played in another three preliminary finals making Adelaide one of the most successful AFLW clubs in Australian football history.

This Sunday, the Club will be celebrating the 10^th season with a festival of footy at Unley Oval, featuring a sign-making competition, a kids’ zone with virtual games and a kicking inflatable, free grazing boxes on arrival (until sold out), a free glass of bubbles on arrival (until sold out), and a post-match signing session.

Gates open at 1pm, with the game starting at 2.35pm (ACST).

Tickets are available here and are $15 for adults, while kids are free.

To honour this milestone 10^th season, AFC Media spoke to 10 Crows – past and present – and asked them for their top moments, to create 10 special memories across 10 special seasons.

Sarah Allan

2017-present; Co-Captain 2024-present; 84 games

Memory: Time stood still in the 2019 Grand Final/The Covid premiership of 2022.

“There’s a photo of me standing in the goal square during the 2019 Grand Final, when the crowd of 53,034 was put up on the big screen, in that moment it really felt like time stood still. But my next memory is the 2022 premiership because of Covid; we sacrificed so much that season. Personally, I didn’t see really anyone for three months and I lived with grandparents and so they also sacrificed their time, no one was allowed to visit their house. It felt like winning was the only option that year in 2022. We always said at the start of that season that it was the team that sacrificed the most was going to be there at the end, because you couldn’t get sick and miss games.”

Chelsea Biddell

2020-present; 63 games

Memory: The 2022 Premiership.

“After losing in 2021, we all rallied together as a group and it was a really cool year and we were all really close and to win and get that ultimate prize was great. I most remember when Dani (Ponter) kicked the goal to seal it, that was pretty unreal. Also, we didn’t know it at the time, but it was Erin Phillips’ last game in Crows colours, so for her to be able to win three premierships and for me to have been able to play alongside her was really cool.”

Teah Charlton

2021-present; 60 games

Memory: Commentators during 2022 Grand Final win over Melbourne.

“My moment is Danielle Ponter – she’s a pretty special player – during the 2022 Grand Final, she sealed the win with her goal. I remember running back to our positions and we kind of knew at that point that we’d won. But then rewatching it over and over, in that very moment the commentators say: ‘Can she seal it? Just about!’ and my dad always brings it up whenever he sees Dani. That always sticks in my head as a special moment.”

Courtney Cramey

2017-2020; 20 games; current assistant coach 

Memory: Crowd announcement during 2019 Grand Final win over Carlton.

“The favourite moment of my career was during the second half of the 2019 Grand Final. I was running down the wing and the ball had stopped, I think it was in our forward 50, and suddenly there was an almighty roar from the crowd, and it took us all by surprise. I remember turning around and I looked at my opponent – it was Carlton’s Katie Loynes – and I said to her: ‘What’s everyone going on about?’. And then we looked up at the scoreboard and they had just announced the crowd attendance of 53,034. Then the moment passed, and the stoppage played out and we just went back to playing football and Katie and I didn’t speak to each other again, but it was a moment of creating history and being seen as female athletes.”

Anne Hatchard

2017-present; 89 games

Memory: Kicking the first goal of the 2019 Grand Final.

“The 2019 season sticks out for me, because my first two years here I didn’t have a huge impact in the team and then coming into that year I felt like I had more of a role to play. I remember coming out on Adelaide Oval for our first warm-up and half the stands were already full and I’m like: ‘This is insane … all these people here to watch us’. It was just an amazing feeling being out on the ground and not being able to hear your teammates because the crowd was just so loud. Then, I was able to kick the first goal for our team, too, and just hearing the crowd roar. I was literally like: ‘I just kicked a ball through these two sticks’, but the whole crowd was roaring over it, I still get goosebumps thinking about it, it was such an incredible time. And later in the game when Erin Phillips went down with her ACL, I remember her being driven off the ground and the whole crowd was cheering her off; she was such a huge mentor and idol for me ever since I was kid growing up watching her play basketball. There were so many moments in that game that even in 2025 I still think back on.”

Niamh Kelly

2022-present (West Coast 2020-2022, season 1); 58 games (36 Crows)

Memory: Showdown II, 2023.

“My favourite moment was my first game back after having shoulder surgery in 2022. It was Round One of 2023, a Showdown against Port. I hadn’t been able to play at 100 per cent in my first season at the Crows because I’d done my shoulder in Round Four and I was playing through it, but it hurt quite a bit. So to come back, fully fit, I was just so grateful to be injury-free and then to come out and beat Port in a Showdown was exciting and then to win the Showdown Medal topped it off. But as a whole to be back with the team after being injured the year before was special.”

Ebony Marinoff

2017-present; Co-Captain 2024-present; 94 games

Memory: Danielle Ponter kicks a goal from the centre square in 2023/Dayna Cox’s efforts.

“Danielle Ponter kicking a goal from the centre square in 2023 was epic; I remember thinking: ‘Wow, that just happened!’. But I’d like to give a shout out generally to former teammate Dayna Cox (played 2017-2021), who might go through a game with no touches, but she’d be full of what Peter Cavan (former assistant coach) would call SACS, or ‘sacrificial acts’. Playing with Dayna Cox is a highlight of my 10 seasons.” 

Danielle Ponter

2019-present; 73 games

Memory: 2019 season.

“If I’m looking back on anything it’s the 2019 Grand Final. But from the day itself, I struggle to remember everything that it was because I was just playing football. But when I look back on it now, I think how incredibly special it was to be a part of s that day. I was just grateful, too. It was my first season for the Crows; I was an 18-19-year-old girl flying up and down from Darwin and wasn’t expecting to even play a game. I debuted in Round 2, I was surprised because I didn’t think I’d ever be put in a position like that, in a team like that, in an occasion like that. I might not remember much of that actual day, but I remember the build-up to it, the whole season for what it was, and being surrounded by some pretty good damn people and some pretty good damn players. It’s something I’m always grateful for and it will hold a very special place in my heart for a very long time.”

Stevie-Lee Thompson

2017-present; 88 games

Memory: Inaugural premiership in 2017.

“Of course, the 2019 Grand Final was special. But so was the 2017 Grand Final, because it was such an unknown. We played only seven games that season and for me, I was flying in and out of Darwin and not really knowing whether we’d make the final and the going up against Brisbane and beating them by a goal in their own state and then getting to celebrate with the team was incredible.”

Chelsea Randall

2017-present; 74 games

Memory: Danielle Ponter’s goal in 2022 Grand Final win.

“My favourite memory is the 2022 (season 1) Grand Final, not just because it was the dynasty of winning of third premiership and all the hard work we’d done over so many years to create sustained success, but the key moment in that game for me was Danielle Ponter kicking a goal and how she ran over to the fans and got their high-fives, she played a phenomenal game and seeing how she’d grown as a player and an individual in that moment is a really nice highlight that’s stuck in my memory forever; the joy on her face.”