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The Adelaide Oval is a stadium in Adelaide in the state of South Australia. It is located in the parklands . The venue is predominantly used for cricket and Australian rules football , but has also played host to rugby league , rugby union , soccer , and tennis , as well as regularly being used to hold concerts .
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Memorial Drive Park, more generally referred to as "Memorial Drive", is a tennis venue, located adjacent to the Adelaide Oval, in the park lands surrounding the centre of Adelaide, South Australia. Memorial Drive took its name from the winding avenue, known as War Memorial Drive, which separates the venue from the River Torrens .
Stadium City State Shape Capacity Tenants Image Melbourne Cricket Ground: Melbourne: Victoria: Oval 100,024 (88,000 in FIFA matches) [1] Australian rules football: Collingwood, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Carlton, Essendon*, Richmond
The first major international act to perform at the Oval was Fleetwood Mac, in 1977. Many big names have performed there since, including David Bowie , Linda Ronstadt , KISS , Simon and Garfunkel , Paul McCartney and Wings , Madonna , Michael Jackson , Elton John , Billy Joel , Neil Diamond , Pearl Jam , AC/DC , and the Foo Fighters .
Adelaide and Port Adelaide played their last home games at Football Park in 2013, with both clubs moving to the Adelaide Oval in 2014. The record Showdown attendance at Football Park was recorded at Showdown XIX on 10 September 2005 when 50,521 saw the Crows defeat the Power by 83 points in the 2005 First Semi Final .
Due to drought conditions forcing the closure of the Waite Campus sports fields, the Adelaide University Rugby Club was temporarily moved to the Graduate's Oval in Park 10 during May and June 2007. [10] This was the first time rugby had been played on the University's City of Adelaide sports grounds since the 1980s. [citation needed]
The Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority (AOSMA) is a company whose directors and members are appointed equally by the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA). AOSMA is not a public authority. It was created in December 2009 as a non-profit public company limited by guarantee.