Football Park
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| Location | Turner Drive, West Lakes, Adelaide, South Australia |
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| Coordinates | 34°52′48″S 138°29′44″E / 34.88000°S 138.49556°ECoordinates: 34°52′48″S 138°29′44″E / 34.88000°S 138.49556°E |
| Owner | SANFL |
| Operator | SANFL |
| Capacity | 51,515 |
| Record attendance | 66,897 (Sturt v Port Adelaide, 1976 SANFL Grand Final) |
| Field size | Football: 165m x 135m |
| Surface | Grass |
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| Broke ground | 1971 |
| Opened | 1974 |
| Construction cost | A$6.6m (A$60m in 2016 dollars) |
| Architect | Various |
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Adelaide Football Club (AFL) (1991–2013) Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL) (1997–2013) Woodville-West Torrens Eagles (SANFL) (1991–1992) Glenelg Tigers (SANFL) (1991) |
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Football Park, also known commercially as AAMI Stadium, is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, the state capital of South Australia, Australia. It was built in 1973 by the South Australian National Football League and opened in 1974. Until the end of the 2013 AFL season, it served as the home ground of both the Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Football Club.
With a seated capacity of 51,240 Football Park is the fifth largest Australian rules football stadium in Australia in terms of crowd capacity, behind the recently redeveloped Adelaide Oval (53,500), Docklands Stadium in Melbourne (56,347), Stadium Australia in Sydney (83,500) and the Melbourne Cricket Ground (100,024). Adelaide Oval now hosts the Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Australian Football League teams from 2014 onwards, and is the fourth largest football stadium in Australia.
Ground was broken for Football Park in 1971, giving the SANFL its own venue after years of playing out of the Adelaide Oval, which was controlled by the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA). Due to ongoing conflicts with the SACA, the SANFL had wanted to leave Adelaide Oval and into their own home stadium for a number of years, finally settling on the undeveloped swampland at West Lakes in 1970 (the same year as the similarly designed, but larger VFL Park opened in Melbourne).
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