The records included in this article cover senior Australian rules football at Adelaide Oval, located in Adelaide, South Australia, for both men and women. The records include the South Australian league football (first known as the South Australian Football Association, then South Australian Football League, and later South Australian National Football League) from 1877, when the first premiership matches were held at the ground, until the end of the 1990 SANFL season, the last year that the competition was the highest level of Australian rules football in South Australia.
The first senior league Australian rules football match was played on Adelaide Oval in 1877 between the original Adelaide club and the Bankers club.
In 1991 the newly created Adelaide Crows entered the Australian Football League, subsequently playing the highest level of football in the state. Port Adelaide joined the Australian Football League in 1997.[citation needed]
^"THE ADELAIDE OVAL". Adelaide Observer. Vol. XLIX, no. 2651. 23 July 1892. p. 19. Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^"FOOTBALL". The Advertiser. Vol. XXXV, no. 10799. Adelaide. 29 May 1893. p. 3. Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
Ken Farmer
Port Adelaide
South Adelaide
Alfred Waldron
