Adam Kingsley


Adam Kingsley is a former Australian rules footballer who played for in the Australian Football League. He has spent time as an assistant coach at the St Kilda Football Club, before joining ahead of the 2019 season.

AFL career

Early career

Originally from Eastern Ranges, he was playing for the Essendon Football Club's reserves team, before being recruited by Port Adelaide. Debuting in the Port Adelaide Football Club's inaugural 1997 AFL side, Kingsley was known as a consistent defender/midfielder.

Later career

He struggled in 2003, coming close to being delisted, but improved his form and cemented a spot during 2004, being a premiership player that year after working his way back into the side.
2005 saw another consistent season from Kingsley, however, he played just five games in 2006, which cast doubts over his career. In his fifth game in Round 22, he injured his anterior cruciate ligament, which forced his retirement. He said in The Age on 12 September 2006, that he had hoped to continue playing in 2007 before the injury.

Coaching career

In 2007, he became an assistant coach at Port Adelaide, a position in which he stayed in until the end of 2010.
Kingsley joined St Kilda at the end of the 2010 season as an assistant coach.
In 2019 he will join as an assistant coach.

Media work

In March 2006, Kingsley won Australia's Brainiest Footballer, a Network Ten quiz show special. He donated the $20,000 that he won to the McGuinness-McDermott Foundation.

Statistics

! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1997
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1998
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1999
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2000
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2001
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2002
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2003
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 2004
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2005
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2006
! colspan=3| Career
! 170
! 47
! 35
! 1957
! 924
! 2881
! 693
! 227
! 0.3
! 0.2
! 11.5
! 5.4
! 16.9
! 4.1
! 1.3
! 15