Adelaide Oval

Adelaide Oval is a stadium located within the Adelaide Park Lands in the suburb of North Adelaide. It is primarily used for Australian rules football and cricket as the home ground of the Adelaide Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League (BBL) and the South Australia cricket team in the Sheffield Shield. It is managed by the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority. Established in 1871, the structures and grounds underwent significant redevelopment between 2012 and 2014. It has three grandstands: Riverbank Stand, Eastern Stand, and Western Stand, and is known for its heritage-listed scoreboard, which stands alongside a new digital scoreboard. Australia's first stadium hotel, named the Oval Hotel, opened in 2024. Adelaide Oval has been headquarters to the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) since 1871 and regularly hosts finals matches in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), including the grand final continuously since 2014. The highest-ever crowd at the venue was in 1965, when 62,543 people attended the SANFL Grand Final between Port Adelaide and Sturt.