Hickinbotham Oval is an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 oval in Noarlunga Downs, South Australia

Noarlunga Downs, South Australia

Noarlunga Downs is a metropolitan suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It lies within the City of Onkaparinga and has postcode 5168.-History:...

, a southern suburb of Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

. It has been the home of South Australian National Football League

South Australian National Football League

The South Australian National Football League is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia....

 (SANFL) club South Adelaide Football Club

South Adelaide Football Club

South Adelaide Football Club competes in the South Australian National Football League . Known as the Panthers, their home ground is Hickinbotham Oval , located in Noarlunga Downs in the southern suburbs of Adelaide....

 ("The Panthers") since 1995.

The oval has a capacity of 12,000 people, with seating for up to 1,000 in the Jim Deane

Jim Deane

Jim Deane was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the VFL and South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League ....

 Grandstand, named after South Adelaide's 1953 and 1957 Magarey Medallist. The record crowd for Noarlunga is 10,123 attending an SANFL match between South Adelaide and Glenelg

Glenelg Tigers

Glenelg Football Club is an Australian rules football team, which plays in the South Australian National Football League. The club is known as the "Tigers" , and their home ground is Gliderol Stadium @ Glenelg , located in the southern coastal suburb of Glenelg East, South Australia.-Club...

 on 6 May 1995 - the first SANFL match played at the venue.

Noarlunga Oval's goal to goal dimensions are 170m x 140m giving it the largest and widest playing surface in the SANFL.

The venue was re-named from Noarlunga Oval to Hickinbotham Oval in 2005 to honour former Panther and successful property developer Alan Hickinbotham

Alan Hickinbotham

Alan David Hickinbotham AM was an Australian businessman and Australian rules football player and coach.-Biography:Hickinbotham was born on 9 December 1925 in Geelong, Victoria...

.

In late 2010 the South Adelaide Footbal Club obtained permission from the City of Onkaparinga

City of Onkaparinga

The City of Onkaparinga is a local government area located on the southern fringe of Adelaide, South Australia. It is named after the Onkaparinga River, whose name comes from Ngangkiparinga, a Kaurna word meaning "The Women's River"...

 to install light towers at the oval with the intent to host night SANFL games at the venue. The first official SANFL night game was played at the oval on 21 April 2011 with the Panthers defeating Port Adelaide

Port Adelaide Magpies

The Port Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the South Australian National Football League...

in front of the current night attendance record of 2,700..