Hickinbotham Oval is an Australian rules football oval in Noarlunga Downs, South Australia, a southern suburb of Adelaide. It has been the home of South Australian National Football League club South Adelaide Football Club since 1995.After previously spending 111 years playing their home games at the Adelaide Oval , the Panthers decided to move to the southern suburb of Noarlunga in the early 1990s. The club had played a game at the Bice Oval in Christies Beach in 1993 in order to gauge support in the area for the Panthers. Some 8,000 fans crammed into the oval to see the Panthers take on local rivals Glenelg. That overwhelming community support was one of the determining factors in South Adelaide's decision to permanently move to Noarlunga, becoming a community based club for the first time in its then 119 year history.The Panthers clubrooms and administration offices, which had previously been located on South Road at St Marys , were also relocated to the Noarlunga Oval.
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