Adelaide recruiting manager Matthew Rendell has quit after saying the AFL club would not draft a player unless he had at least one white parent.

Rendell, who has been Adelaide’s recruiting manager since 2007, was widely condemned on Friday for the racist comments.

Adelaide chief executive officer Steven Trigg said Rendell’s position was “absolutely untenable”.

“We can’t have him attached to the club,” Trigg told reporters on Friday.

“In no forum on any part of the club has there been any suggestion about changing our recruiting policies.”

Rendell made the comments in a meeting attended by two AFL representatives, he said.