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| Former names | Hickinbotham Oval, Noarlunga Oval, |
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| Address | Adelaide Australia |
| Location | 1 Lovelock Drive, Noarlunga Downs, South Australia |
| Coordinates | 35°8′43″S 138°29′36″E / 35.14528°S 138.49333°E |
| Owner | South Adelaide Football Club |
| Operator | South Adelaide Football Club |
| Capacity | 10,000[1] |
| Record attendance | 10,123 – South Adelaide vs Glenelg, 6 May 1995 |
| Field size | 170m x 135m |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1994 |
| Opened | 1995 |
| Tenants | |
| South Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) (1995–present) | |
Hickinbotham Oval (currently known as Flinders University Stadium, and originally Noarlunga Oval) is an Australian rules football stadium in Noarlunga Downs, an outer-southern suburb of Adelaide. It has been the home of South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club South Adelaide Football Club (also known as "The Panthers") since 1995.[2] In 2018 the ground was re-named Flinders University Stadium as part of a five-year sponsorship deal with Flinders University.[3]
South Adelaide decided to move to the southern suburb of Noarlunga in the early 1990s, after 111 years (1882-1903 and 1904-1994) of playing home games at the Adelaide Oval, located on the northern side of the Adelaide city centre and the Torrens River.
The club played two games at the Bice Oval in Christies Beach (approximately 1.5km from Hickinbotham) in 1992 and 1993 to gauge support in the area for the club. Approximately 8,000 fans occupied the Oval in 1993 to see the Panthers' match against the Glenelg Tigers. The level of community support was a determining factor in South Adelaide's decision to permanently move to Noarlunga, becoming a community based club for the first time in its then 119-year history.
The Panthers' clubrooms and administration offices, previously located on South Road at St Marys (opposite the then Mitsubishi Motors factory at Tonsley Park), were also relocated to the Noarlunga Oval.
- ^ "Flinders University Stadium". Austadiums. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ Prior to 1995, the South Adelaide Football Club's home ground was Adelaide Oval.
- ^ Club, Author: South Adelaide Football. "Flinders University and South Adelaide take partnership to the next level". The Official South Adelaide Football Club Website - The Panthers. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
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