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The Melbourne Cricket Ground, or more commonly known as the MCG, is the largest AFL stadium in Australia with a maximum capacity of over 100,000.

This List of Australian Football League grounds lists every ground upon which a senior VFL/AFL game has been played. Australian rules football is played on a grassed oval, according to the specifications in the Laws of Australian football, with average a length of between 135 and 185 metres and a width of between 110 and 155 metres. Most Australian rules football grounds are also used for other sports, such as cricket, rugby, soccer or the the Olympic games, and for events such as rock concerts or exhibitions.

AFL/VFL premiership season venues

Current grounds

The following table shows a list of all of the current grounds that are used in the Australian Football League, in order of capacity. The table also includes grounds where teams have commercial deals in place to transfer home games to these grounds each season but are not actual tenants of those grounds.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground is now the only ground in Australia that has been host to AFL matches since the inauguration of the league back in 1897.

The newest stadium on the list is TIO Stadium. This ground is host to a few Western Bulldogs matches each year as a result of a commercial deal that have allowed them to have home games at TIO Stadium since 2004.

Name of Ground	City	State	Capacity	Year First Used	Current Tenant(s)
Melbourne Cricket Ground	Melbourne	Victoria	100,000	1897	Melbourne Richmond Collingwood Hawthorn
ANZ Stadium	Sydney	New South Wales	83,500	2002	Sydney
Telstra Dome	Melbourne	Victoria	56,347	2000	North Melbourne Essendon St. Kilda Western Bulldogs Carlton
AAMI Stadium	Adelaide	South Australia	51,515	1991	Port Adelaide Adelaide
Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney	New South Wales	44,000	1982	Sydney
Subiaco Oval	Perth	Western Australia	43,500	1987	West Coast Fremantle
Brisbane Cricket Ground	Brisbane	Queensland	42,000	1991	Brisbane
Skilled Stadium	Geelong	Victoria	27,000	1941	Geelong
Aurora Stadium	Launceston	Tasmania	23,000	2001	Hawthorn†
Carrara Stadium	Gold Coast	Queensland	18,000	1987	North Melbourne†
Manuka Oval	Canberra	Australian Capital Territory	15,000	1998	Western Bulldogs† Melbourne†
TIO Stadium	Darwin	Northern Territory	15,000	2004	Western Bulldogs†

† These teams have commercial deals in place to transfer home games to these grounds each season but are not actually tenants of those grounds.

Former major grounds

The table below features a list of former grounds that were used in the VFL/AFL. Some of them were teams home bases for numerous years until the closure of them by the AFL. Throughout World War 2 some of the grounds were used since their main ground was being used for servicemen.

Many of the grounds now serve as a training ovals for an AFL team, as it is highly unlikely any of them will be used in regular competition again.

Waverley Park, located in Mulgrave, Victoria is by far the highest capacity stadium in the list below, able to hold as many as 93,000 people. The stadium was closed due to a lack of public transport infustructure (as the stadium was situated outside Melbourne), lack of parking, inadequite public and corporate facilities and since the ground was unusually larger than normal AFL grounds, spectators felt they were too far away from the game.

Princes Park (now known as Visy Park) was the most recent stadium to close, which occurred in 2005. With the construction of the new stadium, Telstra Dome, the AFL decided to cease all AFL matches from being played there as the grounds capacity wasn't adequite for the modern game.

Name of Ground	City	State	Capacity	Year First Used	Year Last Used	Tenants
Arden Street Oval	North Melbourne	Victoria	15,000	1925	1985	North Melbourne
Brunswick Street Oval	North Fitzroy	Victoria	15,000	1897	1966	Fitzroy (defunct)
Corio Oval	Geelong	Victoria	?	1897	1940	Geelong
East Melbourne Cricket Ground	East Melbourne	Victoria	10,000	1897	1921	Essendon: 1897 - 1915, 1918 - 1921 University (defunct): 1908 - 1910
Glenferrie Oval	Hawthorn	Victoria	10,000	1925	1973	Hawthorn
Junction Oval	St. Kilda	Victoria	10,000	1897	1984	St Kilda: 1897 - 1915, 1918 - 1941, 1944 - 1964 Fitzroy (defunct): 1970 - 1984
Lake Oval	Albert Park	Victoria	14,000	1897	1981	South Melbourne (now Sydney)
Moorabbin Oval	Moorabbin	Victoria	27,000	1965	1992	St Kilda
Princes Park	Carlton	Victoria	35,000	1897	2005	Carlton: 1987 - 2005 Fitzroy (defunct): 1967 - 1969, 1987 - 1993 Hawthorn: 1974 - 1991 South Melbourne (now Sydney): 1942 - 1943 Western Bulldogs: 1997 - 1999
Punt Road Oval	Richmond	Victoria	15,000	1908	1964	Melbourne: 1942 - 1946, 1956 Richmond: 1908 - 1964
Toorak Park	Prahran	Victoria	15,000	1942	1946	St Kilda: 1942 - 1943 South Melbourne (now Sydney): 1944 - 1946
Victoria Park	Abbotsford	Victoria	28,000	1897	1999	Collingwood: 1897 - 1999 Fitzroy (defunct): 1985 - 1986
Waverley Park	Mulgrave	Victoria	93,000	1970	1991	Hawthorn - 1992 - 1999 St Kilda:1993 - 1999 Every team between 1970-91
WACA Ground	Perth	Western Australia	35,000	1987	2000	West Coast: 1987 - 2000 Fremantle: 1995 - 2000
Western Oval	West Footscray	Victoria	25,000	1925	1997	Fitzroy (defunct): 1994 - 1996 Footscray: 1925, 1941, 1943 - 1997
Windy Hill	Essendon	Victoria	15,000	1922	1991	Essendon

Former minor grounds

Minor grounds have been used in the VFL/AFL, but only sparringly. One of the main reasons that minor grounds have been used in VFL/AFL was to spread the game to other parts of the country. A great example of this is Round 8, 1952, where all games for that round were played at minor grounds throughout Australia. Other minor grounds have been used as an "experimentation", where the club tests out the ground for future basing there, as did North Melbourne in 1965 and Footscray in 1942.

Minor grounds were also used throughout World War 2, as some of the larger grounds throughout Victoria were being occupied by servicemen.

Name of Ground	City	State	Capacity	Times Used	Year Last Used	Match Played
Albury Oval	Albury	New South Wales	25,000	1	1952	South Melbourne (now Sydney) vs. North Melbourne: Round 8, 1952
Brisbane Exhibition Ground	Bowen Hills	Queensland	25,490	1	1952	Essendon vs. Geelong: Round 8, 1952
Bruce Stadium	Canberra	Australian Capital Territory	25,000	1	1995	Fitzroy (defunct) vs. West Coast: Round 9, 1995
Coburg City Oval	Coburg	Victoria	25,000	9	1965	North Melbourne home games for the 1965 VFL season.
Euroa Oval	Euroa, Victoria	Victoria	?	1	1952	Carlton vs. Hawthorn: Round 8, 1952
North Hobart Oval	Hobart	Tasmania	18,000	3	1992	Fitzroy (defunct) vs. Melbourne: Round 8, 1952 Fitzroy (defunct) vs Hawthorn: Round 6, 1991 Fitzroy (defunct) vs. West Coast: Round 7, 1992
Motordrome	Melbourne	Victoria	?	3	1932	Melbourne vs. Richmond: Round 3, 1932 Melbourne vs. Geelong: Round 4, 1932 Melbourne vs. Carlton: Round 6, 1932
Yarraville Oval	Yarraville	Victoria	10,000	7	1942	Footscray home games for the 1942 VFL season.
Yallourn Oval	Yallourn	Victoria	?	1	1952	St Kilda vs. Footscray: Round 8, 1952

Future or Proposed Grounds

Name of Ground	City	State	Capacity	To Be Opened	Planned Tenant(s)
Perth Stadium	Perth	Western Australia	60,000 (approx)	2014 (planned)	West Coast Eagles Fremantle

Pre-season venues

The following list of venues that have been used in AFL Pre-season competition. The grounds, minor in size, were used to bring AFL games to regional centers of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, Northern Territory and Tasmania.

Name of Ground	City	State	Capacity	Times Used	Year Last Used	Match Played
Queen Elizabeth Oval	Bendigo	Victoria	18,000
Falcons Park	Morwell	Victoria	12,000
Northern Oval	Ballarat	Victoria	?
Cazaly's Stadium	Cairns	Queensland	11,000
Tony Ireland Stadium	Townsville	Queensland	?
Traeger Park	Alice Springs	Northern Territory	10,000
North Hobart Oval	Hobart	Tasmania	18,000
Arena Joondalup	Joondalup	Western Australia	16,000
Fremantle Oval	Fremantle	Western Australia	17,500
Rushton Park	Mandurah	Western Australia	10,000
Medibank Private Stadium	Leederville	Western Australia	18,000
Lavington Sports Ground	Albury	New South Wales	20,000
Newcastle Number 1 Sports Ground	Newcastle	New South Wales	20,000

International exhibition / pre-season venues

The following is a list of all of the international venues where a game of AFL has been played (in order of year last used), whether it be for a pre-season competition match or for an exhibition match.

The first international AFL exhibition match was in London, England in 1916. A team of Australian soldiers stationed in England at the time foemed a team to play against a "training group". The game brought a crowd of 3,000 people that even included the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII and King Manuel II of Portugal.

The more recent AFL international matches have been part of the pre-season competition format and been highly successful. Countries that have hosted such matches include: United Arab Emirates, South Africa and United Kingdom. There are also plans to expand the game futher into countries such as India and Japan.

Further information: Australian Football Exhibition Match

Name of Ground	City	Country	Match Played	Date	Attendance
Ghantoot Polo and Racing Club	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	Collingwood vs. Adelaide	February 9, 2008	6,102
SuperSport Park	Centurion	South Africa	Carlton vs. Fremantle	February 2, 2008	3,500 - 5,222 (reports vary)
The Oval	London	United Kingdom	Various matches
Intramural Field at UCLA	Los Angeles	United States of America	Sydney vs. North Melbourne	January 15, 2006	3,200
Westpac Stadium	Wellington	New Zealand	Brisbane vs. Adelaide	February 17, 2001	7,500
			Western Bulldogs vs. Hawthorn	January 29, 2000	11,666
Newlands Cricket Ground	Cape Town	South Africa	Brisbane vs. Fremantle	February 22, 1998	10,123
Basin Reserve	Wellington	New Zealand	Sydney vs. Melbourne	January 3, 1998	7,820
	Auckland	New Zealand	St. Kilda vs. Geelong	October 5, 1991	8,500
Civic Stadium	Portland	United States of America	Melbourne vs. West Coast	October 12, 1990	14,787
Joe Robbie Stadium	Portland	United States of America	Essendon vs. Hawthorn	October 14, 1989	10,069
			Collingwood vs. Geelong	October 8, 1988	7,500
Toronto Skydome	Toronto	Canada	Melbourne vs. Geelong	October 12, 1989	24,639
Varsity Stadium	Toronto	Canada	Collingwood vs. Hawthorn	October 16, 1988	18,500
Yokohama Stadium	Yokohama	Japan	Carlton vs. Hawthorn	November 3, 1987	13,000
			Essendon vs. Hawthorn	October 25, 1987	25,000
B.C. Place	Vancouver	Canada	Melbourne vs. Melbourne	October 18, 1987	7,980
			Melbourne vs. Sydney	October 9, 1987	32, 789
	Athens	Greece	Carlton vs. Orlando All Stars	?, 1972	?
	Singapore	Singapore	Carlton vs. Orlando All Stars	?, 1972	?
Crystal Palace National Sports Centre	London	England	Australia vs. Britain	?, 1967	?
Big Rec Stadium	Los Angeles	United States of America	Geelong vs. Melbourne	October 26, 1963	3,500
	Honolulu	United States	Geelong vs. Melbourne	October 20, 1963	1,500
Queen's Club	London	England	Australian Division vs. Training Groups	October 28, 1916	3,000

See also

• List of sports venues in Australia
• List of Australian rugby union stadiums by capacity
• List of cricket grounds in Australia
• List of Australian rugby league stadiums by capacity
• List of Australian association football stadiums by capacity

External links

• List of AFL/VFL premiership season venues with game statistics