Elsternwick Park (currently known by its sponsored name Sportscover Arena) is an Australian rules football and cricket stadium in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.
The ground is the administrative and primary central playing base of the Victorian Amateur Football Association.
[2] The original cost of the development was more than £500, and the ground was formally opened on 9 November 1903 by former premier Sir George Turner.
The wider reserve served as the Elsternwick Racecourse from 1880[15] until 1891,[16] but after its closure it fell into disuse and disrepair – to the point that it was known colloquially as "no-man's land" in the district.
[17] When its lease expired in 1925, the Brighton Council did not renew it and instead made the area a public reserve, which included a municipal nine-hole golf links, a tennis club, a bowls club and more football and cricket ovals, all of which remain today except the golf course, which closed in 2018.