AFL trades, free agency timeline
Adelaide’s first trades were made at the end of the 1992 season. Matthew Robran, who made his AFL debut for Hawthorn against Adelaide in the opening round of the 1991 season, was recruited by the Crows after returning to South Australia earlier in the year and sitting out the season. Adelaide also traded for former Footscray and Sydney key forward Stuart Wigney.
Brenton Sanderson was the first Crow traded to another AFL club, joining Collingwood at the end of the 1993 season after playing six games. He would later coach Adelaide from 2012-2014.
1992
ROBRAN, Matthew (traded by Hawthorn for draft selection 11)
WIGNEY, Stuart (traded by Sydney for draft selection 71)
1993
CHALMERS, Brett (traded by Collingwood for draft selection 34)
HALL, Tony (traded by Hawthorn for draft selection 17)
SANDERSON, Brenton (traded by Adelaide to Collingwood for draft selection 44)
1994
McCARTNEY, Jason (traded by Collingwood for draft picks 9 and 53)
CONNELL, Matthew (traded by West Coast for draft selection 44)
BONE, Randall (traded by Adelaide to Hawthorn for draft selection 31)
TURNER, Peter (traded by Adelaide to Carlton for draft selection 50)
1995
JARMAN, Darren (traded by Hawthorn for draft pick 25 and deal included trades of Sean Wellman from Crows to Essendon for pick 45, Paul Salmon from Essendon to Hawthorn and Paul Barnard from Hawthorn to Essendon)
KOSTER, Kym (traded by Footscray for draft selection 9)
BOND, Troy (traded by Carlton for draft selection 63)
CAVEN, Peter (traded by Sydney for Paul Rouvray)
McKINNON, Martin (traded by Adelaide to Geelong for draft selection 18)
INGERSON, Anthony (traded by Adelaide to Melbourne for draft selection 27)
1996
JAMES, Brett (traded by Collingwood for Jonathon Ross)
ORMOND-ALLEN, Trent (traded by Melbourne for draft selection 83)
SAMPSON, Clay (traded by Melbourne for Nick Pesch)
COOK, Tim (Central District, traded by Port Adelaide for Scott Hodges)
KEATING Aaron (Norwood, traded by Port Adelaide for David Brown)
LAIDLAW, Nick (Sturt, traded by Port Adelaide for David Brown)
STANDFIELD, Barry (traded by Footscray for draft selection 32 and 47)
1997
BASSETT, Nathan (traded by Melbourne for Matthew Collins and Brent Williams)
STEVENS, Mark (traded by North Melbourne for Jason McCartney)
DOWNSBOROUGH, Ian (traded by Port Adelaide for Brett Chalmers)
1998
MODRA, Tony (traded by Adelaide to Fremantle for draft selections 29 and 34)
RINTOUL, Chad (traded by Adelaide to West Coast for draft selection 80)
1999
CLARKE, Matthew (traded by Brisbane for draft selection 6 and 21)
WELSH, Scott (traded by Kangaroos for draft selection 77)
PICIOANE, Lance (traded by Adelaide to Hawthorn for draft selection 70)
2000
BODE, Matthew (traded by Port Adelaide with pick 48 for draft selection 12)
HEWITT, Evan (traded by Kangaroos for draft selection 23)
REHN, Shaun (traded by Adelaide to Hawthorn for draft selection 12)
2001
FITZGERALD, Ryan (traded by Sydney for draft selection 28)
MASSIE, Kris (traded by Carlton for Andrew Eccles)
NELSON, Ben (traded by Carlton for David Gallagher)
SCHELL, Daniel (traded by Fremantle for draft selection 56)
VARDY, Peter (traded by Adelaide to Melbourne for selection 56)
2002
BURNS, Ronnie (traded by Geelong for Ben Finnin)
TORNEY, Jason (traded by Richmond with draft picks 2*, 18, 32 for Kane Johnson and draft selections 12, 28 and 41)
CAREY, Wayne (traded by Kangaroos for draft selections 2* and 18)
- The first round pick traded to Adelaide by Richmond for Kane Johnson was originally pick four. It moved to pick 2 when Carlton forfeited its first two picks for salary cap breaches.
2003
STEVENS, Scott (traded by Sydney with pick 31 for draft selections 29 and 45)
2004
THOMPSON, Scott (traded by Melbourne for draft selection 12)
STENGLEIN, Tyson (traded by Adelaide to West Coast for draft selections 12 and 28)
2005
WATTS, Fergus (traded by Adelaide to Melbourne for draft selection 17)
2007
MORAN, Brad (traded by Kangaroos for draft selection 37)
SYMES, Brad (traded by Port Adelaide for draft selection 28)
MATTNER, Martin (traded by Adelaide to Sydney for draft selection 28)
HUDSON, Ben (traded by Adelaide with pick 43 to Western Bulldogs for draft selections 30 and 38)
MEESEN, John (traded by Adelaide to Melbourne for draft selection 37)
2010
JACOBS, Sam (traded by Carlton for draft selections 34 and 67)
TAMBLING, Richard (traded by Richmond for draft pick 51 and end of first round compensatory selection for Nathan Bock to Gold Coast)
GRIFFIN, Jonathon (traded by Adelaide to Fremantle foe draft selection 61)
2011
BROWN, Luke (Norwood. Pre-listed by GWS, traded with Zone Incentive Selection 2 for draft selection 10 and round one compensation selection for Phil Davis)
CROUCH, Brad (North Ballarat. GWS Giants Trade Incentive Rule, 17-year-old access, pick 2)
JENKINS, Josh (traded by Essendon with pick 41 for draft selection 31).
JOHNSTON, Lewis (Traded by Sydney for Tony Armstrong, draft selections 35 and 68)
LYNCH, Tom T (traded by St Kilda for draft selection 37)
MARIC, Ivan (traded by Adelaide to Richmond for draft selection 37)
GUNSTON, Jack (traded by Adelaide with picks 53 and 71 to Hawthorn for picks 24, 46 and 64)
2012
GRAHAM, Angus (traded by Richmond with draft pick 53 for draft selection 42)
2013
BETTS, Eddie (Restricted Free Agent, from Carlton)
PODSIADLY, James (traded by Geelong for draft selection 67)
VINCE, Bernie (traded by Adelaide to Melbourne for draft selection 23)
2014
CHENEY, Kyle (traded by Hawthorn with Luke Lowden, see below)
LOWDEN, Luke (traded by Hawthorn with Kyle Cheney and draft picks 43, 47 and 59 for draft picks 31, 50 and 68)
2015
GORE, Dean (traded by Geelong as part of its deal for Patrick Dangerfield)
HAMPTON, Curtly (traded by GWS Giants for 2016 round two draft selection)
MENZEL, Troy (traded by Carlton for pick 28 and Sam Kerridge)
SEEDSMAN, Paul (traded by Collingwood for draft selection 37)
2016
LYONS, Jarryd (traded by Adelaide to Gold Coast for draft selections 43 and 67)
2017
GIBBS, Bryce (traded by Carlton with pick 77, 2018 second round and 2018 third round for 2017 selections 10, 16 and 73 and 2018 second round)
GIBSON, Sam (traded by North Melbourne for pick 77)
LEVER, Jake (traded by Adelaide with pick 35 and 2018 round three to Melbourne for draft selection 10, 2018 round one and 2018 round four)
WIGG, Harrison (traded by Adelaide with pick 54 and 2018 round four to Gold Coast for draft selection 39)
CAMERON, Charlie (traded by Adelaide to Brisbane for draft selection 12)
2018
McADAM, Shane (Sturt, drafted by Carlton as special assistance pre-listed player, traded in Mitch McGovern deal with 2019 third round)
STENGLE, Tyson (traded by Richmond for draft selection 68)
McGOVERN, Mitch (traded by Adelaide with 2019 round three for draft selections 13 and 2019 round five)
2019
FRAMPTON, Billy (traded from Port Adelaide for 2020 round four pick)
BETTS, Eddie (traded by Adelaide to Carlton for 2020 round four pick)
JACOBS, Sam (traded by Adelaide to GWS for 2020 round four pick)
GREENWOOD, Hugh (traded by Adelaide to Gold Coast for 2020 round three and 2020 round four)
KEATH, Alex (traded by Adelaide with 2020 round three to Western Bulldogs for pick 45 and 2020 round two selection)
JENKINS, Josh (traded by Adelaide with 2020 round three to Geelong for pick 37)
2020
HINGE, Mitch (delisted free agent, from Brisbane)
HARTIGAN, Kyle (traded by Adelaide to Hawthorn for 2021 round four pick)
2021
DAWSON, Jordan (traded by Sydney for 2022 round one selection)
2022
RANKINE, Izak (traded by Gold Coast with pick 46 and 2023 round four for selection five, 2023 third round and 2023 fourth round)
2023
BURGESS, Chris (traded by Gold Coast with pick 14 for picks 23 and 26)
McADAM, Shane (traded by Adelaide to Melbourne for 2024 second round pick)
DOEDEE, Tom (restricted free agent to Brisbane, Crows receive end of first round compensation pick)