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Adelaide Derby
Adelaide Derby at Adelaide City Park, 2018
LocationAdelaide, South Australia
TeamsAdelaide City
West Adelaide
First meetingJuventus 5–1 Hellas
(14 September 1963)
Latest meetingWest Adelaide 0–1 Adelaide City
(13 May 2023)
StadiumsAdelaide City Park
Kilburn Sportsplex
Statistics
Meetings total132
Most winsAdelaide City (66)
All-time recordAdelaide City (66)
West Adelaide (45)
Drawn (21)
Largest victoryAdelaide City 6–0 West Adelaide
(11 June 2012, 12 August 2017)
Longest win streakAdelaide City (6 games)
(31 July 1971–2 September 1972)
(25 April 1979–24 May 1981)
(5 March 2016–24 June 2018)
Longest unbeaten streakAdelaide City (9 games)
(31 March 1996–16 May 1998)
West Adelaide (9 games)
(30 April 1966–10 May 1969)
Current win streakAdelaide City (2 games)
Current unbeaten streakAdelaide City (3 games)

The Adelaide Derby is an intra-city local derby between South Australia's two most historically successful soccer clubs: Adelaide City and West Adelaide. The two sides were the first from the state to compete at the national level when they became founding members of the National Soccer League in 1977. For more than 20 years, it was Adelaide's only intra-city derby. The rivalry was born before the national league developed and when they competed in the state's first division. Adelaide City, then known as Adelaide Juventus was a club backed by Adelaide's Italian community, while West Adelaide Hellas drew its support from the city's Greek population. Since the demise of the NSL, the two clubs have returned to South Australian competition and continue their rivalry in the National Premier Leagues.

History

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State dominance: A rivalry is born

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Adelaide City was founded as Juventus in 1946 by a group of Italian migrants, some of whom had previously been members of a club called Savoia. In 1953, the club won its first South Australian first-division title and its first Federation Cup. Juventus had won six league titles and five cups by the early 1960s. West Adelaide Hellas was founded in 1962 by some Greek migrants who had previously been part of the Hellenic Olympic club, banned by the South Australian Soccer Federation for crowd violence. The Greek club merged with the original West Adelaide, which was founded in 1910 and played home games at Hindmarsh Stadium. Like Juventus, it too quickly obtained promotion to the first division, and the clubs established their rivalry.

Juventus and Hellas' first meeting came in September 1963, before the newly formed Hellas had even played its first game in the top tier. West Adelaide reached the final of that year's Federation Cup as it took out the second-tier competition. The final pit Hellas against Juventus, but the dominant Italians proved too good for the upstarts, winning 5–1 in the final. Juventus won the first division that year – their seventh title.

Juventus also won the first league meeting between the two teams, a 2–0 away victory on 18 April 1964. However, later in the year, Hellas was to draw blood against its new rival for the first time. The sides again came face-to-face in the Federation Cup as they had the previous year. The first match ended in a 3–3 deadlock that extra time was unable to resolve, so a replay was contested. Hellas won 2–1 a week later and went on to win its first cup title. However, Juventus again won the league that year.

Again, the two sides came against one another in the 1965 Federation Cup semi-final, with Juventus exacting revenge and going on to win the title. In 1966, West Adelaide won the first division for the first time, taking out wins against Juventus home and away in the process. The first match between the pair that season finished 6–3 to Hellas and remains the highest-scoring derby to date. The following year, Hellas thumped Juventus 4–0 in the league (to date, its biggest derby win) and also demolished the Italian club 3–0 in the Federation Cup final. However, Juventus still managed to win the league, one point ahead of second-placed Hellas.

West Adelaide won the next two league championships before Juventus won the league again in 1970. It also defeated Hellas in the Federation Cup final to claim the double. The two clubs had by now established themselves as South Australia's most powerful. Hellas won the 1971 competition, seven points clear of second-placed Juventus, but the Italian-backed club got revenge in the cup, beating Hellas in the final for the second straight season. Juventus would go on to win four Federation Cup finals in a row, all against West Adelaide.

Between 1966 and 1976, the two clubs won all but one league championship between them. Only Polonia Adelaide managed to break their dominance for a single season, winning the league in 1975.

The derby goes national

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Adelaide City, as the renamed Juventus was known, and West Adelaide became foundation members of the National Soccer League in 1977. On 20 June, the two clubs ran out for the first time against one another in a national competition. In front of 12,328 spectators, Adelaide City trounced West Adelaide 4–1 with goals from Brian Northcote, Agenor Muniz, Dixie Deans and John Nyskohus.[1] Neil McGachey scored the only goal for Hellas. The match did not lack star quality, with Liverpool legend Graeme Souness lining up for West Adelaide.[2] The return game at Olympic Sports Field finished 2–2. West Adelaide won an NSL Cup tie between the two clubs; however, it was 3–2 after extra time. The two clubs were not allowed by the South Australian Soccer Federation to enter teams in the state competition that year, although they both re-entered South Australia's second tier in 1978.

Arguably the biggest derby ever played between the two clubs was contested in the final round of the 1978 National Soccer League season. West Adelaide needed just a draw to win its first NSL title and become the first Adelaide club, and first outside New South Wales, to be crowned Australian champion. Adelaide City couldn't win the league but needed to win the game to deny its rival the title. John Perin scored the opening goal for the Italian-backed club with a long-range strike and City appeared destined to spoil West's party until Vic Bozanić lobbed home an equaliser five minutes from time.[3] A crowd of 16,251 watched the game at Hindmarsh Stadium and it remains the highest recorded attendance of any derby between the two clubs.

West Adelaide wouldn't win another league derby until 1982. The two clubs also met semi-frequently in the NSL Cup, Hellas knocking City out of the 1982 and 1983 editions before the Black and Whites picked up a win in a new group phase format in 1984. Derby crowds dropped in the mid-1980s, and only 3500 spectators watched City defeat West 4–1 at Olympic Sports Field in June 1985, where a young Aurelio Vidmar scored twice in his first derby. The NSL had been split into two conferences from 1984 to 1986, and the two Adelaide clubs competed alongside sides from Victoria and Queensland in the Southern Conference. When the league's administrators chose to return to a single division for the 1987 season, they cut the number of clubs and relegated those which were not retained to their respective state leagues.

The city had won its first league title in 1986 – a 2–1 loss to West Adelaide late in the season notwithstanding. However, West Adelaide had struggled, finishing fourth from bottom in the conference. It was not included in the NSL for 1987 and did not return until the 1989–90 season, the first time the NSL was played in summer. West Adelaide's return to the national league was short-lived. The club finished second-to-last and lost both derbies on its return, although crowds had more than doubled since the mid-1980s. More than 10,000 watched the first derby at Hindmarsh Stadium where City had moved and would play out the rest of its time in the NSL. To make the NSL return more bitter for West, it also lost the 1989–90 NSL Cup Round of 16 game 3–0 to Adelaide City.

City soars, West struggles

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After another year in state league purgatory, West Adelaide returned to the NSL for the 1991–92 season. Again, City was ruthless in front of a 10,000-strong crowd at Hindmarsh, winning 4–1 with two goals apiece from club legend Sergio Melta and a young Carl Veart. Adelaide City would go on to win its second NSL title that season, but West Adelaide was not going to be a pushover in the return fixture. More than 13,000 attended the game on 7 January 1992 and it was a future Socceroo striker Paul Agostino, then just 16 years old, who would get on to the end of a through ball and finish calmly past goalkeeper Robert Zabica to win the game 1-0 for West.[4]

Both Adelaide City and West Adelaide made the finals in 1992–93, and the playoffs would pit the two Adelaide sides against one another at the business end of the season for the first time. It was Hellas that won the first leg of the semi-final, but Adelaide City progressed after winning the second leg 2–1, having finished higher on the table after the minor round. Steve Maxwell scored the brace that ultimately helped City get past their local rivals, although the season ended with a disappointing 1-0 grand final defeat to Marconi.

Adelaide City won another derby in December 1993, a 4-0 demolition. West Adelaide claimed glory two months later, though when Socceroo striker Greg Brown scored a brace in front of a packed Hindmarsh Stadium. His side won 2–0; City again won the championship.[5] The two clubs also played off in a two-legged NSL Cup tie which City won 4–3 on aggregate.

The rest of the 1990s were particularly lean for West Adelaide as their crosstown rivals regularly finished among the top five and played finals football. West won the first derby of the 1994–95 season but the club's supporters did not realise they would only ever win one more NSL game against City again. West knocked City out of the 1994-95 NSL Cup on away goals after two drawn games, despite both matches being played at Hindmarsh Stadium. City won two derbies in each of the 1995–96 and 1996–97 seasons.

In 1998, West Adelaide rebranded itself as the Adelaide Sharks, in an attempt to attract more broad-based support beyond their traditional but dwindling base in Adelaide's Greek community. They ended City's run of derby wins with a 1–1 draw in their first derby under the Sharks moniker. Nathan Day, who would later play for City, scored West's goal. Adelaide City smashed the Sharks 5–0 in the first derby of the 1998–99 season. The result was the most one-sided in all 40 NSL games the two sides contested. There would only ever again be one more such derby in the national league.

Adelaide Sharks defeated City 1-0 thanks to a late Aleksandar Đurić goal on 4 April 1999. The crowd was just 3982 at Hindmarsh Stadium, almost 5000 less than watched the earlier fixture between the two clubs just three and a half months prior and a world removed from the crowds of more than 10,000 fans the derbies had traditionally attracted. Just a week before the 1999–00 season was due to start, the Sharks withdrew from the competition – bankrupt.

City would remain in the NSL until 2003 when it too pulled out of the competition, just weeks before the final edition was about to begin. It was replaced in the NSL by the newly formed Adelaide United, a club backed by the South Australian Soccer Federation and South Australian businessman and former Adelaide City sponsor Gordon Pickard. The April 1999 derby remains the last time two Adelaide clubs faced each other in a national league.

The derby is reborn

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Adelaide City returned its focus to the South Australian Premier League in 2004 upon withdrawing from the NSL. West Adelaide management legally separated its senior and junior arms into two clubs before the Sharks entered administration and ultimately folded in 1999.

West Adelaide's juniors survived through a merger with state league club Adelaide Olympic. In 2008, nine years after the last Adelaide derby was played in the NSL, West Adelaide ended its arrangement with the Olympic and returned to fielding senior teams in the third tier of the South Australian competition. West Adelaide Hellas eventually won promotion back to the South Australian first tier, now called the National Premier Leagues South Australia, for the 2014 season.

West was drawn to host Adelaide City at its temporary home ground at West Beach in round 1 of its first season back in South Australia's top flight. The match was promoted in local media and attracted a crowd of 2900 – significantly higher than the average state league crowd. That match ended 1-1, and West Adelaide won the return leg at Adelaide City Park later in the season. The two clubs reached the final of the 2014 Federation Cup, which served as South Australia's qualifier to the inaugural FFA Cup.[6] Adelaide City won the highly anticipated match 4–1 at Hindmarsh Stadium and went on to defeat Western Sydney Wanderers in the FFA Cup; becoming the first state league side to defeat an A-League club.

West Adelaide won its first championship since its return from bankruptcy the following season despite a 4–0 loss to Adelaide City during the season. West also managed to knock City out of the cup, preventing the Black and Whites from embarking on a second FFA Cup campaign. Adelaide City responded by winning the next five derbies, including a 6-0 demolition in the final round of the 2017 FFSA season – the greatest-ever winning margin in derby history.

Ahead of the first derby of the 2018 season, the clubs announced a perpetual trophy had been created to recognise the historical significance of the derby. Adelaide City defeated West Adelaide 4–0 at home on 17 March to claim the Real Adelaide Derby Cup.[7]

Results

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# Competition Date Round Home team Score Away team Venue Record
1 1963 Federation Cup 14 September 1963 GF Adelaide Juventus 5–1 West Adelaide Hellas 1–0–0
2 1964 SASF Division One 25 April 1964 2 West Adelaide Hellas 0–2 Adelaide Juventus 2–0–0
3 20 June 1964 11 Adelaide Juventus 2–2 West Adelaide Hellas 2–1–0
4 1964 Federation Cup 15 August 1964 RO16 West Adelaide Hellas 2–2 (a.e.t.) Adelaide Juventus 2–2–0
5 22 August 1964 West Adelaide Hellas 2–1 Adelaide Juventus 2–2–1
6 1965 SASF Division One 29 May 1965 7 Adelaide Juventus 2–1 West Adelaide Hellas 3–2–1
7 31 July 1965 16 West Adelaide Hellas 0–4 Adelaide Juventus 4–2–1
8 1965 Federation Cup 11 September 1965 SF West Adelaide Hellas 1–3 Adelaide Juventus 5–2–1
9 1966 SASF Division One 30 April 1966 3 West Adelaide Hellas 6–3 Adelaide Juventus 5–2–2
10 9 July 1966 11 Adelaide Juventus 0–1 West Adelaide Hellas 5–2–3
11 1966 Federation Cup 10 September 1966 QF West Adelaide Hellas 4–3 Adelaide Juventus 5–2–4
12 1967 SASF Division One 24 April 1967 2 West Adelaide Hellas 4–0 Adelaide Juventus 5–2–5
13 12 June 1967 9 Adelaide Juventus 0–0 West Adelaide Hellas 5–3–5
14 1967 Federation Cup 23 September 1967 GF West Adelaide Hellas 3–0 Adelaide Juventus 5–3–6
15 1968 SASF Division One 11 May 1968 3 Adelaide Juventus 2–2 West Adelaide Hellas 5–4–6
16 27 July 1968 13 West Adelaide Hellas 2–0 Adelaide Juventus 5–4–7
17 1969 SASF Division One 10 May 1969 6 West Adelaide Hellas 1–1 Adelaide Juventus 5–5–7
18 26 July 1969 16 Adelaide Juventus 2–1 West Adelaide Hellas 6–5–7
19 1970 SASF Division One 30 May 1970 7 West Adelaide Hellas 2–2 Adelaide Juventus 6–6–7
20 17 Adelaide Juventus 3–4 West Adelaide Hellas 6–6–8
21 1970 Federation Cup GF Adelaide Juventus 3–2 West Adelaide Hellas 7–6–8
22 1970 Coca-Cola Challenge Cup 12 October 1970 3 Adelaide Juventus def. by West Adelaide Hellas 7–6–9
23 1971 SASF Division One 15 May 1971 4 Adelaide Juventus 0–2 West Adelaide Hellas 7–6–10
24 31 July 1971 13 West Adelaide Hellas 3–5 Adelaide Juventus 8–6–10
25 1971 Federation Cup 18 September 1971 GF Adelaide Juventus 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas 9–6–10
26 1971 Coca-Cola Challenge Cup 25 September 1971 SF Adelaide Juventus 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas 10–6–10
27 1972 SASF Division One 22 April 1972 2 West Adelaide Hellas 0–2 Adelaide Juventus 11–6–10
28 24 June 1972 10 Adelaide Juventus 3–1 West Adelaide Hellas 12–6–10
29 1972 Federation Cup 2 September 1972 GF Adelaide Juventus 2–0 West Adelaide Hellas 13–6–10
30 1973 SASF Division One 19 May 1973 6 Adelaide Juventus 0–1 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 13–6–11
31 28 July 1973 15 West Adelaide Hellas 4–1 Adelaide Juventus Hindmarsh Stadium 13–6–12
32 1973 Federation Cup 1 September 1973 GF West Adelaide Hellas 0–1 Adelaide Juventus 14–6–12
33 1973 Coca-Cola Challenge Cup 22 September 1973 GF Adelaide Juventus 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas 15–6–12
34 1974 SASF Division One 25 May 1974 6 West Adelaide Hellas 1–0 Adelaide Juventus Hindmarsh Stadium 15–6–13
35 3 August 1974 15 Adelaide Juventus 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 16–6–13
36 1975 SASF Division One 24 May 1975 6 West Adelaide Hellas 2–2 Adelaide Juventus Hindmarsh Stadium 16–7–13
37 2 August 1975 15 Adelaide Juventus 0–1 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 16–7–14
38 1975 Coca-Cola Challenge Cup 27 September 1975 SF West Adelaide Hellas 3–2 Adelaide Juventus 16–7–15
39 1976 SASF Division One 12 June 1976 8 West Adelaide Hellas 3–2 Adelaide Juventus Hindmarsh Stadium 17–7–15
40 28 August 1976 17 Adelaide Juventus 1–1 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 17–8–15
41 1976 Coca-Cola Challenge Cup 9 October 1976 GF West Adelaide Hellas 2–1 Adelaide Juventus 17–8–16
42 1977 National Soccer League 20 June 1977 12 West Adelaide Hellas 1–4 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 18–8–16
43 19 September 1977 25 Adelaide City 2–2 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 18–9–16
44 1977 NSL Cup 20 September 1977 1 West Adelaide Hellas 2–2 (a.e.t.)
4–2 (pen.)
Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 18–9–17
45 1978 National Soccer League 28 May 1978 13 Adelaide City 1–2 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 18–9–18
46 1978 NSL Cup 19 July 1978 RO16 Adelaide City 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 19–9–18
47 1978 National Soccer League 27 August 1978 26 West Adelaide Hellas 1–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 19–10–18
48 1979 NSL Cup 25 April 1979 RO32 Adelaide City 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 20–10–18
49 1979 National Soccer League 10 June 1979 12 West Adelaide Hellas 1–2 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 21–10–18
50 16 September 1979 25 Adelaide City 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 22–10–18
51 1980 National Soccer League 18 May 1980 11 Adelaide City 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 23–10–18
52 14 September 1980 24 West Adelaide Hellas 0–2 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 24–10–18
53 1981 National Soccer League 24 May 1981 14 West Adelaide Hellas 0–3 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 25–10–18
54 1981 NSL Cup 29 July 1981 SF West Adelaide Hellas 1–0 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 25–10–19
55 1981 National Soccer League 30 August 1981 28 Adelaide City 2–1 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 26–10–19
56 1982 National Soccer League 16 May 1982 14 West Adelaide Hellas 2–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 26–10–20
57 1982 NSL Cup 14 June 1982 RO32 West Adelaide Hellas 3–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 26–10–21
58 1982 National Soccer League 22 August 1982 28 Adelaide City 0–0 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 26–11–21
59 1983 NSL Cup 6 March 1983 RO16 West Adelaide Hellas 1–0 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 26–11–22
60 1983 National Soccer League 15 May 1983 10 West Adelaide Hellas 1–2 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 27–11–22
61 21 August 1983 23 Adelaide City 2–0 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 28–11–22
62 1984 National Soccer League 4 March 1984 1 West Adelaide Hellas 0–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 29–11–22
63 1984 NSL Cup 23 May 1984 1 West Adelaide Hellas 0–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 30–11–22
64 1984 National Soccer League 8 April 1984 6 West Adelaide Hellas 2–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 30–11–23
65 1 July 1984 14 Adelaide City 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 31–11–23
66 12 August 1984 20 Adelaide City 3–2 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 32–11–23
67 30 September 1984 27 West Adelaide Hellas 0–3 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 33–11–23
68 1985 National Soccer League 24 March 1985 3 West Adelaide Hellas 2–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 33–11–24
69 9 June 1985 14 Adelaide City 4–1 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 34–11–24
70 1986 NSL Cup 27 April 1986 RO16 West Adelaide Hellas 1–0 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 34–11–25
71 1986 National Soccer League 8 June 1986 9 Adelaide City 3–1 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 35–11–25
72 24 August 1986 19 West Adelaide Hellas 2–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 35–11–26
73 1988 SASF Division One 21 May 1988 10 Adelaide City 0–1 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 35–11–27
74 20 August 1988 21 West Adelaide Hellas 2–0 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 35–11–28
75 1989 SASF Division One 22 April 1989 6 Adelaide City 0–5 West Adelaide Hellas Olympic Sports Field 35–11–29
76 8 July 1989 17 West Adelaide Hellas 1–0 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 35–11–30
77 1989–90 NSL Cup 14 February 1990 1 Adelaide City 3–0 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 36–11–30
78 1990 SASF Division One 14 April 1990 7 Adelaide City 1–1 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 36–12–30
79 30 June 1990 18 West Adelaide Hellas 2–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 36–12–31
80 1991 SASF Division One 4 May 1991 7 West Adelaide Hellas 0–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 37–12–31
81 27 July 1991 18 Adelaide City 0–2 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 37–12–32
82 1991–92 National Soccer League 7 October 1991 4 West Adelaide Hellas 1–4 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 38–12–32
83 1991–92 NSL Cup 30 October 1991 1 Adelaide City 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 39–12–32
84 1991–92 National Soccer League 7 January 1992 17 Adelaide City 0–1 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 39–12–33
85 1992–93 National Soccer League 7 November 1992 6 West Adelaide Hellas 0–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 40–12–33
86 1992–93 NSL Cup 18 November 1992 1 Adelaide City 3–2 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 41–12–33
87 9 December 1992 West Adelaide Hellas 1–2 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 42–12–33
88 1992–93 National Soccer League 1 February 1993 19 Adelaide City 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 43–12–33
89 1992–93 National Soccer League EF West Adelaide Hellas 1–0 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 43–12–34
90 Adelaide City 2–1 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 44–12–34
91 1993–94 NSL Cup 3 October 1993 1 West Adelaide Hellas 0–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 45–12–34
92 6 October 1993 Adelaide City 3–3 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 45–13–34
93 1993–94 National Soccer League 3 December 1993 6 Adelaide City 4–0 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 46–13–34
94 7 February 1994 19 West Adelaide Hellas 2–0 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 46–13–35
95 1994–95 NSL Cup 30 September 1994 1 Adelaide City 2–2 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 46–14–35
96 3 October 1994 West Adelaide Hellas 0–0 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 46–15–35
97 1994–95 National Soccer League 23 December 1994 13 West Adelaide Hellas 2–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 46–15–36
98 9 April 1995 26 Adelaide City 2–1 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 47–15–36
99 1995 SASF Division Two 27 May 1995 10 West Adelaide Hellas 2–2 Adelaide City 47–16–36
100 5 August 1995 21 Adelaide City 1–2 West Adelaide Hellas 47–16–37
101 1995–96 National Soccer League 5 November 1995 6 West Adelaide Hellas 1–2 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 48–16–37
102 7 January 1996 17 Adelaide City 0–2 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 48–16–38
103 1996 SASF Division Two 16 March 1996 3 Adelaide City 1–3 West Adelaide Hellas 48–16–39
104 1995–96 National Soccer League 31 March 1996 28 West Adelaide Hellas 0–3 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 49–16–39
105 1996 SASF Division Two 22 June 1996 14 West Adelaide Hellas 0–2 Adelaide City 50–16–39
106 1996–97 National Soccer League 24 November 1996 7 Adelaide City 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 51–16–39
107 16 March 1997 21 West Adelaide Hellas 0–2 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 52–16–39
108 1997 SASF Division Two 31 May 1997 10 Adelaide City 1–0 West Adelaide Hellas 53–16–39
109 16 August 1997 21 West Adelaide Hellas 1–1 Adelaide City 53–17–39
110 1997–98 National Soccer League 14 January 1998 11 West Adelaide Hellas 1–1 Adelaide City Hindmarsh Stadium 53–18–39
111 5 April 1998 25 Adelaide City 3–1 West Adelaide Hellas Hindmarsh Stadium 54–18–39
112 1998 SASF Division Two 16 May 1998 9 West Adelaide Sharks 1–1 Adelaide City 54–19–39
113 1 August 1998 20 Adelaide City 0–1 West Adelaide Sharks 54–19–40
114 1999 SASF Division Two 17 May 1999 12 Adelaide City 5–2 West Adelaide Sharks 55–19–40
115 7 August 1999 25 West Adelaide Sharks 2–1 Adelaide City 55–19–41
116 2012 Federation Cup 11 June 2012 RO16 Adelaide City 6–0 West Adelaide Adelaide City Park 56–19–41
117 2014 National Premier Leagues South Australia 21 February 2014 1 West Adelaide 1–1 Adelaide City Adelaide Shores Football Centre 56–20–41
118 24 May 2014 14 Adelaide City 1–2 West Adelaide Adelaide City Park 56–20–42
119 2014 Federation Cup 31 May 2014 GF Adelaide City 4–1 West Adelaide Hindmarsh Stadium 57–20–42
120 2015 National Premier Leagues South Australia 6 March 2015 4 West Adelaide 3–2 Adelaide City Adelaide Shores Football Centre 57–20–43
121 2015 Federation Cup 25 April 2015 RO16 Adelaide City 4–0 West Adelaide Adelaide City Park 58–20–43
122 2015 National Premier Leagues South Australia 8 June 2015 17 Adelaide City 2–3 West Adelaide Adelaide City Park 58–20–44
123 2016 National Premier Leagues South Australia 5 March 2016 2 Adelaide City 1–0 West Adelaide Adelaide City Park 59–20–44
124 5 June 2016 13 West Adelaide 1–2 Adelaide City Adelaide Shores Football Centre 60–20–44
125 2017 National Premier Leagues South Australia 20 May 2017 11 West Adelaide 1–2 Adelaide City Adelaide Shores Football Centre 61–20–44
126 12 August 2017 22 Adelaide City 6–0 West Adelaide Adelaide City Park 62–20–44
127 2018 National Premier Leagues South Australia 17 March 2018 5 Adelaide City 4–0 West Adelaide Adelaide City Park 63–20–44
128 24 June 2018 16 West Adelaide 1–3 Adelaide City Adelaide Shores Football Centre 64–20–44
129 2019 National Premier Leagues South Australia 13 April 2019 7 West Adelaide 3–0 Adelaide City The Parks Football Centre 64–20–45
130 7 June 2019 13 Adelaide City 0–0 West Adelaide Adelaide City Park 64–21–45
131 2023 National Premier Leagues South Australia 17 February 2023 1 Adelaide City 4–0 West Adelaide State Centre for Football 65–21–45
132 13 May 2023 12 West Adelaide 0–1 Adelaide City West Beach Parks Football Centre 66–21–45

Records and statistics

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Matches Adelaide City
Wins
Draws West Adelaide
Wins
Adelaide City
Goals
West Adelaide
Goals
South Australian Competitions 58 21 13 24 91 83
National Soccer League 38 25 4 9 67 33
Cups/Playoffs 36 20 4 12 61 40
Total 132 66 21 45 219 156

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