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The 2024 South Australian National Football League season (officially the SANFL Hostplus League) is the 145th season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), the highest-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia. The season began on 28 March 2024.
Football Park, known commercially as AAMI Stadium, was an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, the state capital of South Australia, Australia. It was built in 1973 by the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and opened in 1974.
The competition began in April 2013 and concluded with the Grand Final in August 2013, in which West Adelaide defeated East Fremantle by four points at AAMI Stadium in a low scoring thriller. It was the Bloods' first trophy of any sort since their last SANFL premiership in 1983.
South Australian National Football League: Most caps: Lindsay Head (37) Home stadium: AAMI Stadium (51,515) Adelaide Oval (53,583) Various SANFL grounds: First game: Victoria 7–0 South Australia 1879
The 2013 Grand Final was the last SANFL match at AAMI Stadium, with SANFL league headquarters to remain at AAMI but the finals to return to the new and improved Adelaide Oval from 2014. Ahead of the 2014 season, the AFL-based Adelaide Football Club were granted a licence to field a reserve team in the competition, increasing the number of teams ...
It was used until 1999, and was replaced by the Docklands Stadium. Football Park, which was located in West Lakes, Adelaide, had a similar history to Waverley Park; it was purpose built for South Australian National Football League (SANFL) games and opened in 1974, replacing Adelaide Oval as the primary venue for the league. Unlike Waverley ...
The stadium was referred to as Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Swan Street Stadium or the Bubble Dome [8] [9] during its early construction. The stadium's commercial name was announced as AAMI Park on 16 March 2010; initially an eight-year deal, it has been twice extended with the current AAMI sponsorship deal set to expire in 2026. [10]
Matthew Broadbent (born 1 August 1990) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was selected with pick 38 in the 2008 AFL Draft from the Woodville-West Torrens Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).