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Capacity: 51,515
Opened: 1974
Owner: South Australian National Football LeagueAAMI Stadium, formerly known as Football Park, is the home of Australian rules football in South Australia. It is situated at West Lakes, Adelaide. It was built by the South Australian Football League (SANFL) and is now the home ground of the AFL teams Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Power.
Football Park hosted its first event, an SANFL match between Central District and North Adelaide, on May 4, 1974. In addition to Australian rules football, AAMI Stadium has also hosted cricket matches, most famously for the Kerry Packer-run World Series Cricket competition of the late 1970s, International Rules and concerts.
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 stadium is all-seated with an absolute maximum capacity of 51,515, about 6.5% of the population of the entire city of Adelaide, though this attendance is highly unlikley to be reached. However, the record attendance stands at 66,897 for the 1976 SANFL Grand Final (Sturt v Port Adelaide), when there was standing room terracing in the outer.
The Australian Football League (AFL) currently has two teams in South Australia and at AAMI Stadium. The Adelaide Crows and the Port Adelaide Power play their home games at AAMI Stadium. When the two teams meet in Adelaide to face off, new records are set in the way of attendance as both teams fight to be the winners of the ‘Showdown’. Since 1997, 20 Showdowns have been played with the Power leading the Crows 11 to 9.
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