Adelaide Sport 2026 — The Complete Local Guide

Sport in Adelaide is a year-round conversation. Two AFL clubs — the Crows and Port Adelaide — split the city's loyalties through autumn and winter, with the Adelaide Oval lit up week after week. Summer brings Test and Big Bash cricket to the same ground, while Adelaide United and the Strikers keep football and the BBL alive across the football and cricket seasons. The Adelaide 500 is back on the calendar, the Tour Down Under opens the cycling year, and the city hosts everything from netball and basketball to elite swimming, rowing and athletics out of the state institute. This guide collects our 2026 sport coverage in one place: match reports, team news, transfers and trade speculation, injury updates, the off-field business of stadia and broadcast deals, and the grassroots clubs that feed the elite ranks. Whether you support the Crows or the Power, follow the Reds and the Strikers, or simply want to know who is playing where this weekend at the Oval or Coopers, the reporting here is written for an Adelaide sport audience. New stories are added as they publish.