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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.

History

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.

• Ken Farmer
  (North Adelaide) Most goals outright (347) and equal most goals alongside Neil Hawke (Port Adelaide) in a single match (15).
• Port Adelaide
  The Port Adelaide Football Club won 20 Grand Finals and four Championship of Australia titles at Adelaide Oval.
• South Adelaide
  The South Adelaide Football Club used Adelaide Oval as its home ground for over 100 years between 1882 and 1903 and 1905–1994.
• Alfred Waldron
  (Norwood) Alfred Waldron was captain of Norwood for the 1889 SAFA Grand Final, the first Grand Final in a major Australian rules football competition.

Individual (Men)

Most goals in a game by a player

Most career goals by a player

Most career games by a player

Team (men)

Most consecutive wins by a club at the ground

Highest team score

Largest single-quarter score

Largest winning margin

• Before 1897 behinds were not included in the final score. During these matches the margins were 30 and 27 goals.

Lowest team score

Individual (women)

Most goals in a game

Most goals in a career

Team (women)

Highest team score

References

1. ^ "AFL Tables - Adelaide Oval". Archived from the original on 4 September 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
2. ^ "SANFL – Highest Scores". Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
3. "South Australian league football stats". Australian football. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
4. "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.
5. "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.
6. "SANFL – Lowest Scores". Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2015.

• South Australian National Football League
• Australian rules football competitions in South Australia