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Australian rules football grounds, even at the highest level of the game, have no fixed dimensions. For senior football, the playing field is an oval between 135–185 metres (148–202 yd) long goal-to-goal and 110–155 metres (120–170 yd) wide wing-to-wing.
Typical Australian rules football playing field. Unlike other forms of football which are played on rectangular fields, Australian rules football playing fields are oval-shaped, and are between 135 and 185 metres (148 and 202 yd) long and 110 and 155 metres (120 and 170 yd) wide. [79]
Sports such as rugby and soccer can be readily played on an Australian rules football arena, as their rectangular fields are small enough to be set on the larger oval. The oldest Australian Football League ground is the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The ground was built in 1854 and is still used for hosting AFL matches, including each year's grand ...
Field size: 136 m × 85 m (446 ft × 279 ft) [2] Field shape: Rectangular: ... Australian rules football Melbourne Football Club (training, 2010–present)
Field size: 168 m x 124 m (Australian rules football) Surface: Grass: Construction; Renovated: 2001; 23 years ago () Tenants; Bendigo Football Club (VFL, 1998-2014) Richmond Football Club (2020) Bendigo Pioneers South Bendigo Football Club Sandhurst Football Club (BFL) Bendigo & District Cricket Association
A 1904 recollection of the Australian game in South Africa cites a book called "Martin's Australian Football Guide" that claims that on the goldfields early footballers of various nationalities would alternate between soccer, rugby and Australian rules, and this happened prior to the outbreak of the war, with Australians beating the other ...
Venues for Australian rules football, cricket, rugby league, rugby union and soccer are listed here, if they are a regular venue of: . An Australian national team (Australia national cricket team, Australia national rugby league team, Australia national rugby union team, Australia national soccer team)
Australian rules football holds the match attendance record of any football code in Victoria (121,696), South Australia (66,987), Tasmania (24,968) and the Northern Territory (17,500). The national professional competitions are the men's Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (AFLW). Nationally these are the most popular football ...