Adelaide has won six of its seven clashes with Greater Western Sydney.

The Crows won the most recent meeting by 22 points at Adelaide Oval in Round 10 last season. On that night, Eddie Betts kicked five goals including Goal of the Year.

The Giants are yet to defeat the Crows in South Australia. GWS recorded its first-ever win at Adelaide Oval against Port Adelaide last year.

Crows ruckman Sam Jacobs is set to play his 150^th AFL game on Sunday, while livewire Charlie Cameron will line up in game 50.

The biggest Round One crowd the Crows have played in front of was at Adelaide Oval in 2015 when 45,607 fans turned out to watch Adelaide beat North Melbourne.

Recruit Curtly Hampton could make his Crows debut against his former club on Sunday. Hampton played 51 games for Greater Western Sydney before joining Adelaide at the end of the 2015 season.

The athletic utility kicked three goals for the Giants in their first-ever clash with Adelaide at Football Park in Round Four, 2012.

Hampton is one of 10 current Crows players to have made Round One AFL debuts: Eddie Betts (for Carlton in 2005), David Mackay (2008), Taylor Walker (2009), Sam Jacobs (for Carlton in 2009), Kyle Cheney (for Melbourne in 2009), Brodie Smith (2011), Paul Seedsman (for Collingwood in 2012), Hampton (for Greater Western Sydney also in 2012), as well as Mitch McGovern and Wayne Milera Junior, who both played their first AFL games against the Kangaroos at Etihad Stadium in Round One last year.

The Crows and Giants have previously never met in Round One. Three of Greater Western Sydney’s opening round matches have been against cross-town rivals the Sydney Swans (2012 – 2014).

Adelaide (16.5) and Greater Western Sydney (15.6) averaged more goals than the rest of the competition in 2016. The attacking teams also ranked top-two in forward 50m entries last season.

The Crows’ goal rush last season was fuelled by Eddie Betts, Tom Lynch, Taylor Walker and Josh Jenkins, who kicked 226 goals between them - 57 per cent of Adelaide's goals.

The Giants won more contested possessions (446) than any other team in this year’s JLT Community Series. Veteran defender Heath Shaw led the way for rebound 50ms, averaging eight per game, over the pre-season.

Josh Jenkins has enjoyed the Round One stage recently. Jenkins has kicked eight goals in his last two opening round matches, including five in a losing team last year. The key forward finished the pre-season in ominous fashion, kicking five goals against the Brisbane Lions.

GWS co-captain Callan Ward averaged more contested possessions (15) than any other player in this year’s pre-season series.

Adelaide and Greater Western Sydney both finished the pre-season with two wins and one loss.

The Crows’ greatest-ever win in Round One was 94 points against Richmond in 1993.

Adelaide’s score 28.10 (178) against Carlton in 1994 remains the Club’s highest-ever in Round One.

Perhaps surprisingly for a still-young club, the Giants are ranked third going into the 2017 for average career games with 72. They have five players listed with more than 200 games.

Leon Cameron's men tower above opponents with the equal-tallest list on average at 190cm, thanks to four players 200cm or above.

The Crows have averaged a winning margin of 54 points in their Round One victories.

The Crows have gone on to play finals in eight of the 12 years when they’ve won in Round One. Adelaide bucked this trend by playing finals after losing to the Kangaroos in the opening round last season.