Alberton Oval
The Fos Williams Family Stand (Left) and Robert B. Quinn MM Grandstand (Right) seen from the Allan Scott Power Headquarters.
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| Former names | Queen and Albert Oval |
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| Location | cnr Brougham Place and Queen St, Alberton, South Australia |
| Coordinates | 34°51′52″S 138°31′10″E / 34.86444°S 138.51944°ECoordinates: 34°51′52″S 138°31′10″E / 34.86444°S 138.51944°E |
| Public transit |
 Cheltenham Station Alberton Station
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| Owner | City of Port Adelaide Enfield |
| Operator | Port Adelaide Football Club |
| Capacity | 15,000 |
| Record attendance | 22,738 (Port Adelaide vs Norwood, 11 June 1977) |
| Field size | 170 by 130 metres (185.9 yd × 142.2 yd) |
| Surface | Grass |
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| Broke ground | 1877 |
| Opened | 8 November 1877 (139 years ago) |
| Construction cost |
Property: Donated by John Formby. Construction: ₤500 |
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Port Adelaide Football Club (1880-present) Port Adelaide Cricket Club (1896-1996) |
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Alberton Oval is located in Alberton, a north-western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The ground is a public park and exclusively leased to the Port Adelaide Football Club for Australian rules football.
With the nearby Queenstown Oval built upon in 1876, the Alberton and Queenstown Council opted to construct a cricketing ground on the land adjacent Brougham Place in 1876. The land was donated by the former Mayor of Port Adelaide, John Formby. The Queen and Albert Oval was officially opened on 8 November 1877 for a game between the touring Tasmanian cricket team and a selected eleven of the Queen and Albert Cricket Association.
While several teams played at the Alberton Oval in the ground's early days, it is most famous for being the training and administration base for the Port Adelaide Football Club since it played its first game on 15 May 1880 and defeated the original, now-defunct Kensington Football Club 1-nil.
Port Adelaide still plays its SANFL games at the ground, although AFL games are played at Adelaide Oval and, between 1997 and 2013, at AAMI Stadium.
All of the club's teams, including its AFL team and its SANFL League and Academy teams, conduct their principal trainings at the ground.
The Allan Scott Power Headquarters stands adjacent to the oval. So too does The Port Club, a social venue for the club's supporters and players, which was opened on 14 November 1954.
Alberton is regarded as the "spiritual home" of Port Adelaide due to the club (in the SANFL) playing almost all of their homes games there since commencing its tenancy. The club's AFL team usually plays one or two trial games at the ground during the pre-season.
Many notable Port Adelaide players have played matches on the ground, including four time SANFL Magarey Medal winner and club games record holder (392) Russell Ebert, nine time premiership coach Fos Williams, local junior and future Carlton player Craig Bradley, 1992 Best and Fairest winner Nathan Buckley, 1993 Brownlow Medallist Gavin Wanganeen and Port Adelaide's first ever AFL coach, John Cahill who also coached the club to 10 SANFL premierships.
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