Just days after being knocked out of the 2025 AFL Finals Series, the Adelaide Football Club has unveiled its suite of membership options for 2026, including the controversial “Straight Sets” package.
The membership tier gives fans the option to pay for two Crows’ finals games at Adelaide Oval, but actually show up to neither of them. It’s understood that many players on the club’s list had a similar clause included in their player contracts.
The package also includes priority access to book last-minute Jetstar flights to Bali across the final weekend of September, a commemorative 2026 Adelaide Crows scarf that is fully biodegradable when placed in special bins around Adelaide Oval and a 20-minute phone call from a Port supporting mate singing your choice of Port Adelaide, Hawthorn or Collingwood club songs.
Club Chairman and former South Australian Premier Giancarlo Motorola told Adelaide Mail that the package represents a “great deal for fans of kicking it directly to an opposition half back and not winning a centre clearance for about three years.”
Crows fans will also get unprecedented access to players in 2026, with each Straight Sets member receiving one personal apology from a player of their choosing across the year.
“It’s something that we’re trialling next year,” Motorolo explains, “Apologies, that is, we’ve never done them before. Actually, there was this one time where the AFL wrote one for us and we were forced to read it out, but we were able to delay that for about a week.
