 The formal announcement of the building of AAMI Stadium, formally Football Park, was made on December 20, 1971 and the first match played on May 4, 1974 between Central District and North Adelaide. Football Park is the home of Australian Football in South Australia with both Adelaide AFL teams using the stadium as their home grounds. Since it was built, Football Park has had many additions including light towers, corporate boxes, a super video screen, the new northern grandstand, and most recently replacing the bench seats with new bucket seating. The current capacity is 51,515.
The new 7,000-seat Northern Grandstand (as seen above) was completed in 2001 at a cost of $12.5 million. The new stand was built as an extension of the current members stand, but bigger, and extends around to the large video screen.
Under a sponsorship arrangement with major Australian insurer AAMI, the company now has naming rights to the stadium, which from July 13 2002 is known as AAMI Stadium.
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Location: |
Adelaide, South Australia |
Address: |
West Lakes Boulevard, West Lakes 5021
Phone: (08) 8268 2088 |
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Capacity: |
51,515 |
Seats: |
51,515 (100% of capacity) |
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Record Crowd: |
66,897 - 28/9/1976 - SANFL GF
Sturt v Port Adelaide |
Highest Crowd since 1/1/2003: |
51,140 - 26/04/03: AFL: Adelaide v Port Adelaide
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Lights: |
Yes |
Arena Roof: |
No |
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Video Screen: |
Yes (2) |
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Built: |
1974 |
Redeveloped: |
2001 |
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Former/Other Names: |
Football Park |
Ticketing: |
Bass |
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Sports Played: |
Australian Football |
Home Teams: |
Adelaide Crows FC
Port Adelaide FC |
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Last Event: |
28/08/10: AFL: Adelaide v St Kilda
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Bus services from the city and across the suburbs terminate at the ground. |
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Friday nights & Sundays plenty of car parking available at the West Lakes Mall across from AAMI Stadium. Seaton High School offers parking on their grounds and provide a shuttle service to AAMI Stadium. Saturday afternoon fixtures can be a problem when the football crowd and Westfields shoppers are competing for spots. |
Lakes Resort: 300m from AAMI Stadium; Close to West Lakes Shopping Mall; close to Henley Square restauraunts.
Links Hotel: in Seaton which is only a few minutes drive to AAMI Stadium is another popular hotel to stay at. |
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