<P> Star midfielder for many years Patrick Dangerfield left the club at the end of the 2015 season ( a season in which he won the club 's best and fairest ) and Don Pyke , a former premiership player and assistant coach with West Coast who had also been an assistant coach at Adelaide from 2005 to 2006 , was appointed Adelaide 's senior coach for at least three years . Adelaide was widely tipped to slide out of the finals in 2016 but the Crows proved to be one of the successes of the season , comfortably qualifying for a home elimination final and defeating North Melbourne by 62 points , before being eliminated the next week by eventual beaten grand finalists , Sydney in the semi-finals . The club had a dominant 2017 season , winning their opening six games and never falling below second place for the entire season . Adelaide claimed their second McClelland Trophy as minor premiers . The Adelaide Crows entered the 2017 finals series as favourites for the premiership ; they defeated Greater Western Sydney and Geelong by 36 and 61 points respectively to qualify for the Grand Final , their first since 1998 , where they faced Richmond . Despite starting as favourites , the Crows lost the match by 48 points . </P>
when was the last time the crows were in the grand final
2017