Elsternwick Park

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.

Elsternwick Park Aerial panorama with Yalukit Willam Nature Reserve and the Cricket Club in the frame.