Grand Final hero Darren Jarman has been inducted into the Adelaide Football Club’s Hall of Fame.

Jarman will be forever remembered for his match-winning Grand Final heroics with the Adelaide Football Club.

His five goals in the last quarter of the 1997 AFL Grand Final comeback win against St Kilda immediately ushered him into Crows folklore.

And one year later he kicked five goals in the Premiership win against North Melbourne.

Jarman is in the Australian Football Hall of Fame for his overall career with North Adelaide, Hawthorn and South Australia but his extraordinary Grand Finals with the Crows sealed his selection.

Although aged 29 when he arrived at Adelaide before the 1996 season - after winning Hawthorn’s best-and-fairest in 1995 - he made an immediate impact alongside older brother Andrew and was an All-Australian in his first year with the Crows.

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Hall of Fame: Darren Jarman takes his place among the Club’s greats

One of the Club’s most iconic players, Darren Jarman will always be remembered for his match-winning moments on the biggest stage.

In the 1997 finals series, he polled Club Champion votes in all four games, including an equal second behind Shaun Rehn in the semi-final against Geelong. 

His third goal gave Adelaide the lead late in the preliminary final against the Western Bulldogs and in the grand final, only Norm Smith Medallist Andrew McLeod received more Club Champion votes on the day.

Jarman also was an important contributor in the 1998 finals series, being rated second best in the losing semi-final against Melbourne (as a midfielder) and among the best against Sydney before producing more Grand Final heroics.

Premiership coach Malcolm Blight said Jarman was a “beautiful player”.

“To go back-to-back, as a club, was fantastic,” Blight said.

“For Darren to go tick, tick … I mean 11 goals, plus he set some others up as well.

“Darren, first and foremost, was a competitor. He just wanted to win the footy and do something with it.

“The ability to win the football, one-on-one, without fumbling, was his greatest asset.” 

Crows career

Played 121 AFL games and kicked 264 goals for Crows (1996-2001) 

2x Premiership Player (1997 and 1998)

All-Australian 1996

Runner-up Club Champion 1997

Third Club Champion 1996

3x Leading Goalkicker (1998, 1999, 2000)

Assistant coach 2002-04

AFC Life Member 2008

Australian Football Hall of Fame, 2007

Selected in Adelaide’s “Best 22 of 30 Years”