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Adelaide's Top Sports Teams and Venues Guide
Explore where Adelaide Crows, Port Adelaide, Strikers and United play, plus the iconic Adelaide Oval.
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Adelaide's sporting culture is built around the fierce intracity AFL rivalry between the Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Power, one of Australian sport's most passionate local derbies, and the extraordinary Adelaide Oval, which following its $535 million redevelopment (completed 2014) is now widely considered the most beautiful cricket and football stadium in Australia. The Adelaide 500 (Supercars Championship, November), the Adelaide Test (cricket, December-January at Adelaide Oval), and the Tour Down Under (cycling, January) provide an exceptional summer and spring sporting calendar.
AFL (Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Power), the Showdown (Adelaide Crows vs Port Adelaide Power at Adelaide Oval) is one of the most electric atmospheres in the AFL competition, with the capacity 53,000 Adelaide Oval routinely filled and the city's football conversation dominated by the local derby for the days surrounding the match. The Crows' two premierships (1997, 1998) and the Power's 2004 premiership represent the peaks of SA AFL achievement. Adelaide Oval's transformation from cricket ground to dual-purpose oval has created one of the AFL's finest home grounds for both clubs.
Cricket (Adelaide Test), the Adelaide Test (typically the second Test of each Australian summer series, day-night Test since 2015) is the flagship Adelaide Oval cricket occasion, with the Adelaide Oval's heritage Member's Stand, the River Torrens backdrop, and the day-night pink ball Test innovation making the Adelaide Test one of the most distinctive fixtures in the international cricket calendar.
Adelaide 500 (Supercars Championship), the Adelaide 500 street circuit race (the East Parklands circuit, November) is one of the Supercars Championship's most popular events and provides Adelaide's most high-profile motorsport occasion, with the 500 kilometre Sunday race drawing large crowds to the East Parklands circuit adjacent to the city centre.
Tour Down Under, the Tour Down Under (January) is Australia's most prestigious professional cycling race and the Southern Hemisphere's most significant UCI WorldTour event, with the Adelaide criterium stage and the Willunga Hill Queen Stage providing the race's most celebrated moments.
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