The Parade | |
 View from the northern end, March 2015 | |
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| Location | cnr The Parade and Woods St, Norwood, South Australia |
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| Coordinates | 34°55′11″S 138°37′50″E / 34.91972°S 138.63056°E |
| Owner | Norwood, Payneham & St Peters Council |
| Operator | Norwood Football Club |
| Capacity | 10,000[1] |
| Record attendance | 20,280 – Norwood vs Port Adelaide, 1971 |
| Field size | Football: 165 m × 110 m (541 ft × 361 ft)[2] Baseball: Left Field – 320 feet (98 m) Center Field – 390 feet (119 m) Right Field – 290 feet (88 m) |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | Late 1890s |
| Opened | 27 April 1901 |
| Tenants | |
| Norwood Football Club (SANFL) (1901–present) Adelaide Crows (AFLW) (2017–2019, 2021–present) | |
Norwood Oval (currently known as Coopers Stadium due to sponsorship from the Adelaide-based Coopers Brewery) is a suburban oval in the western end of Norwood, an inner eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The Oval has a capacity of 10,000 people, with grandstand seating for up to 3,900. Norwood Oval was built in 1901 and began hosting events from that year but was officially opened in 1906 to host football matches.[3]
It is owned by Norwood, Payneham & St Peters Council but managed by the Norwood Football Club. Though mainly used for Australian rules football, the oval has been used for a variety of other sporting and community events including baseball, soccer, rugby league and American football. It is the home ground for the Norwood Football Club ("The Redlegs") in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and the primary home ground of the Adelaide Crows in AFL Women's (AFLW).
The oval is one of two sporting venues in Adelaide to carry the name of Coopers Stadium. The other is the soccer specific Hindmarsh Stadium which also has naming rights sponsorship from Coopers Brewery.
- ^ "Norwood Oval". Austadiums. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ Atkinson, Cody; Lawson, Sean (15 June 2022). "From the SCG to Kardinia Park — do ground sizes contribute to the end result in AFL games?". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE NORWOOD OVAL". Observer. Vol. LXIII, no. 3, 364. South Australia. 24 March 1906. p. 27. Retrieved 16 April 2023 – via National Library of Australia.