Adelaide Oval, Multi-purpose sports venue in Adelaide, Australia
Adelaide Oval is a stadium in the Adelaide Park Lands of North Adelaide, South Australia. Its flat green playing field, marked with white lines, is ringed by a continuous bowl of tiered seats in mixed colours. Above the seating rise white shell-like roof canopies on slender white masts, divided into several segments around the rim.
The grounds opened in 1871 as a cricket pitch and remained a venue for bat-and-ball sports for over a century. During the 2010s, extensive construction work transformed the stadium into a modern arena with covered seating on all sides.
The ground has been the headquarters of the South Australian Cricket Association since 1871, and since 2014 it has hosted the SANFL grand final every year. In 1885 about 100 Aboriginal men and women from the Point MacLeay mission and Yorke Peninsula performed a corroboree here before some 20,000 spectators, roughly a sixth of Adelaide's population at the time.
Public transport runs directly to the stadium, which sits close to the city center and the River Torrens banks. Entrances spread around the oval, allowing visitors to enter from several sides.
The heritage-listed scoreboard, designed by architect F. Kenneth Milne, has been in service since 1911 and stands beside a newer digital scoreboard. The ground's record crowd of 62,543 watched the 1965 SANFL Grand Final between Port Adelaide and Sturt. Australia's first stadium hotel, the Oval Hotel, opened here in 2024.
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