Adelaide Crows great Mark Ricciuto has been inducted into the South Australian Sport Hall of Fame.

The Premiership player and Brownlow Medallist was awarded the honour at a Sport SA event at Adelaide Oval on Friday night.

Ricciuto is one of the Crows’ most decorated players, after finishing his career in 2007 with 312 games, a Brownlow Medal, a Premiership and eight All Australian blazers, as well as three Club Champion awards.

The Waikerie product made his AFL debut in Round Six, 1993, and earned his first All Australian jumper the following year.

In 2001, Ricciuto became Adelaide’s Captain and Skippered the Club for 147 games.

The now 49-year-old became the Crows’ first Brownlow Medallist in 2003 when he jointly won the League’s highest individual award with Sydney great Adam Goodes and Collingwood’s Nathan Buckley.

Ricciuto was named in the Club’s Team of the Decade 1991-2000. 

He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2011 and made an inaugural member of the Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame in 2015. 

His contribution to football in SA was further recognised in 2014 when a grandstand at Adelaide Oval was named the Mark Ricciuto Stand.

Ricciuto returned to the Crows in an official capacity as a Board director during the 2014 season.

In 2021, he was selected as centre in Adelaide’s Best 22 of 30 Years.

The SA Sports Hall of Fame was established in 2010 to pay tribute to exceptional individuals who had left an indelible mark in their field, while inspiring future generations.