The ground is primarily used for Australian rules football and cricket and is the home ground for the Glenelg Football Club in the SANFL competition. It is also the home of the Glenelg Cricket Club, and hosts local school football matches, with the Glenelg Primary School located beyond the southern end of the ground.[2] with one seated grandstand holding 1,000 and a new grass area where the old HY Sparkes Stand was with umbrellas holding 500.
History
The oval has a current capacity of 15,000 and the entire spectator area on the western or Brighton Road side of the ground is concrete terracing. This is also where the former 500-seat HY Sparkes Stand and the 1,000-seat Edward Rix Stand, as well as the Glenelg Cricket Club, are located. The Glenelg Football Club offices, bars and function rooms are located under the Rix Stand. The entire outer side of the ground, which extends from goal to goal, consists only of grass banking which is less than five-metres wide on the outer wing. The area in front of the southern end of the Rix Stand is also where the Glenelg cheer squad stands for games, near the female and opposition change rooms and current home-team players race. This is the former location of the Snouts Bar, now situated near the new electronic scoreboard located where the old scoreboard stood. At only 160m x 115m, Glenelg Oval is among the smallest playing surfaces in the SANFL.
The ground record attendance was set on 20 July 1968 when 17,171 saw Sturt defeat Glenelg by just one point, 13.13 (91) to 13.12 (90).[citation needed]
Glenelg Oval saw the highest score kicked by any team in SANFL history when Glenelg defeated Central District 49.23 (317) to 11.13 (79) in round 18 of the 1975 SANFL season. The 228-point winning margin was an SANFL record at the time. Tigers champion full-forwardD.K. "Fred" Phillis, a Magarey Medal winner for the Bays in 1969, kicked a Glenelg club record 18 goals in the match. Other stars for Glenelg on that famous day included Graham Cornes, Peter Carey, Peter Marker and John McFarlane. Late in the last quarter, McFarlane, who had kicked almost 10 goals for the game, had a shot on goal that would have been the Tigers 50th. The ball hit the post though and was recorded as a point (in Australian football, if a kicked ball hits the goal posts, even if it then bounces through the goals untouched by any player or bounces back into play, the ball is dead and a point is awarded to the attacking team).[3]
In 2009, the oval was renamed to Gliderol Stadium @ Glenelg as part of a sponsorship arrangement between the football club and its major sponsor, Gliderol Garage Doors.[4] Previously, the ground was named Challenge Recruitment Oval under sponsorship with employment agency Challenge Recruitment.
On 28 December 2016, Adelaide was hit by wild storms with heavy rain and high winds. The winds caused damage to Glenelg Oval with the roof of the HY Sparkes Stand blown off into the oval's car park.[5]
On 1 November 2018, Glenelg Oval was renamed ACH GroupStadium as part of a partnership between the football club and co-tenant ACH Group. In November 2022, the oval was renamed Stratarama Stadium as part of a new sponsorship deal for the 2023 season and beyond.
After a long legal battle with local residents which resulted in a court win for the Tigers, the Glenelg Football Club had lights installed at the oval in time for the 2012 SANFL season. On 31 March the club christened their newly lit home ground with an 11.13 (79) to 7.15 (57) win over West Adelaide in front of 6,047 fans.
The record night game attendance at Glenelg Oval was set on 25 April (Anzac Day) during Round 4 of the 2014 SANFL season when 9,299 fans saw Glenelg record its first win of the season by defeating the Adelaide Crows SANFL team 17.21 (123) to 13.8 (86).
Interstate football
On Saturday 26 May 2012, Glenelg Oval hosted its first ever Interstate game when South Australia defeated Western Australia by 14 points 15.11 (101) to 13.9 (87). Scores were locked at 11.8 (74) each at three-quarter time, but the Croweaters scored 4.3 (27) to 2.1 (13) in the last quarter to win in front of a disappointing crowd of just 2,843, not helped by predicted rain. The teams were playing for the Haydn Bunton, Jr. Trophy.[7]
On 26 February 2014, the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) announced that should the Southern Redbacks win the right to host the 2013–14 Sheffield Shield final, scheduled for 21–25 March 2014, the game would be played at Glenelg Oval rather than the Redback's long-time home, the Adelaide Oval. This was due to a date clash as the oval had been pre-booked for a Rolling Stones concert on 22 March.[9] While the SACA was applauded for announcing the venue change early, there was outrage among the Adelaide public that the oval's longest tenants had been forced out due to a one-off rock concert (the South Australian cricket team has been the major tenant of the Adelaide Oval since 1877).[citation needed]State Government Minister for InfrastructureTom Koutsantonis also came in for heavy criticism for stating in an interview on radio station FiveAA that the state Labour party had always seen the newly renovated Adelaide Oval as an economic asset and that the stadium was not just about sport.[citation needed]
In a sad twist, the Rolling Stones concert at the Adelaide Oval was postponed due to the death of L'Wren Scott, the partner of lead singer Mick Jagger.[citation needed] Additionally, the Redbacks suffered a late-season form slump[when?] and failed to reach the Sheffield Shield final.
In 2016, the Glenelg oval hosted the Sheffield Shield final between South Australia and Victoria due to the Adelaide Oval being unavailable.
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