 Don Pyke permanently succeeded the late Phil Walsh as head coach in October 2015

After the VFL was renamed the AFL for the 1990 season, the SANFL clubs unanimously resolved, in May 1990, that a team would not be entered into the AFL until season 1993.The AFL refused to accept this, and revised negotiations with individual clubs Port Adelaide and Norwood.Two months later, the Port Adelaide Football Club reached terms of agreement with the AFL to enter a team into its competition in season 1991.