Glenelg Oval (currently Gliderol Stadium @ Glenelg and formerly Challenge Recruitment Oval) is located on Brighton Road, Glenelg East, South Australia. 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 two seated grandstands holding 1,500.
The oval has a current capacity of 15,000 and the entire spectator area on the western side of the ground (where the grandstands are located) is concrete terracing while the entire outer consists only of grass banking with the area behind the southern goals generally where the Glenelg cheer squad stands for games. At only 160m x 110m Glenelg Oval has the smallest playing surface 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).
Glenelg Oval saw the highest ever score by any team in SANFL history when Glenelg defeated Central District 49.23 (317) to 11.13 (79) in 1975. The 228 point winning margin was also at the time an SANFL record.
In 2009 the oval was renamed to Gliderol Stadium @ Glenelg as part of a sponsorship arrangement between the football club and their major sponsor Gliderol Garage Doors. Previously the ground was named "Challenge Recruitment Oval" under sponsorship with employment agency Challenge Recruitment.
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.
On Saturday 26 May 2012, Glenelg Oval hosted its first ever Interstate game when South Australia defeated Western Australia by 14 points (SA: 15.11 (101) d WA: 13.9 (87)). Scores were locked at 74 each at ¾ time nut scored 4.3 (27) to 2.1 (13) in the last quarter to win in front of a disappointing crowd, not helped by predicted rain, of just 2,843. The teams were playing for the Haydn Bunton, Jr. Trophy.