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 Foo
The renovated Adelaide Oval in 2015
Adelaide Oval's Western Stand was redeveloped in 2010, retaining significant portions of the George Giffen stand (1882), Sir Edwin Smith stand (1922) and Mostyn Evan stand (1920s) structural facades.
The Australian Football League is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway co
Adelaide Oval
…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…
The final standing of the 1896 VFA ladder. Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, South Melbourne, Carlton and St Kilda would form the VFL the following year.
Essendon won the inaugural VFL premiership by finishing on top of the 1897 round robin finals ladder. A new finals system was implemented during the 1898 VFL season in order that a final match, or "grand final", should determine the premiers.
In 1924, Footscray, the premiers of the VFA, defeated Essendon, the VFL premiers, in the Championship of Victoria. The result played a large part in Footscray, Hawthorn and North Melbourne gaining entry into the VFL the following year.
Luke Hodge, the first pick in the 2001 AFL draft. Hodge has played the most VFL/AFL games of any number-one draft pick (346 games played), is the only number-one draft pick to win a Norm Smith Medal, is one of just five number-one draft picks to have won a premiership, and has won the most premierships of any number-one draft pick (4)