Home Grounds
- Adelaide Oval (1882–1903, 1905–94)
- Jubilee Oval (1904)
- Hickinbotham Oval (1995–present)
South Adelaide’s clubrooms were based at Panther Park at the inner-southern Adelaide suburb of St Mary’s until 1995 when the club moved to Noarlunga and its new ground Hickinbotham Oval. Prior to 1995, with the exception of 1904 when they played at the now defunct Jubilee Oval, the Panthers played all their home games at the Adelaide Oval (ironically located on the northern side of the Adelaide city centre) while in 1993 they played a game at the Bice Oval in the southern suburb of Christies Beach to gauge support in the area for the Panthers. The oval, located only 1 km from where Hickinbotham Oval now sits, was packed to capacity with approximately 8,000 crammed in to see Souths take on Glenelg. It was following this game that South Adelaide made the decision to move permanently to Noarlunga.
South Adelaide christened their new home at Noarlunga in Round 8 of the 1995 SANFL season. The opening game at Noarlunga also saw the ground record crowd of 10,123 when Glenelg defeated the Panthers by 47 points. Originally called Noarlunga Oval, the name was officially changed to Hickinbotham Oval in 2005 to honor former Panther and successful property developer, the late Alan Hickinbotham.
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