Sport in South Australia
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Sport is an important part of the culture across Australia, with South Australia being no exception. South Australia's sporting colours are red, blue and gold, with all state-representative sporting teams wearing these colours, as well as some Adelaide club teams in national competitions deriving their club colours from the state colours. South Australia is very competitive with Victoria and have often broken into fights with each other.
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[edit] Australian football
Australian rules football is the most popular sport in South Australia. Two Australian Football League teams come from South Australia, being the Adelaide Football Club, known as the Crows, and Port Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Power. South Australia also has a strong domestic competition, regarded as the strongest outside the AFL, the South Australian National Football League.
[edit] Cricket
South Australia's state men's cricket team is known as the Southern Redbacks.
[edit] Association football (soccer)
South Australia's sole representative in the national A-League competition is Adelaide United FC.
[edit] Baseball
South Australia is home to Baseball SA, which has a 12 club division 1 competition in the Adelaide metropolitan area.
Adelaide was also home to the former Adelaide Giants in the defunct Australian Baseball League. Now the major national competition is the Claxton Shield which SA competes in annually.
[edit] Basketball
South Australia has a team in each of the national men's and women's competitions; the Adelaide 36ers and Adelaide Lightning respectively.
[edit] Rugby League
- See also: Adelaide Rams
The state rugby league federation is the South Australian Rugby League[1] The game traces its roots in the state back to the 1940s, when the Port Adelaide rugby union team split in four, and defected to rugby league.
South Australia's only professional rugby league team, the Adelaide Rams, had a short but eventful existence. Originally the Australian Rugby League planned to relocate a Sydney team to Adelaide but the Super League war and the SARL's decision to align themselves with the News Ltd Super League in 1995 slowed down progress. Later in 1995, with Super League still only consisting of nine teams and Melbourne still aligned with the ARL, a decision was made to give Adelaide the 10th Super League license. [2]
Brought into existence for the 1997 Super League season they had instant success. In 1998 they were selected to join the 20-team National Rugby League, however rumours abounded that they were to axed from the 1999 season as part of the rationalisation of teams (from 20 to 14) in the competition, crowds dropped off. As expected the team was culled from the 1999 season.
[edit] Rugby Union
The South Australian Rugby Union or "SA Rugby" is the governing body in the state.[1]
Adelaide also has a rugby sevens tournament.[2]
[edit] Other teams
- Adelaide Thunderbirds - Netball
- Adelaide Avalanche - Ice Hockey
[edit] Other events
[edit] Venues
- Adelaide Oval - Cricket / Australian Football (SANFL) / Rugby Union
- AAMI Stadium - Australian Football
- Hindmarsh Stadium - Association football (soccer)
- Distinctive Homes Dome - Basketball
- The Pines Hockey Stadium - Hockey / Lacrosse
- The Superdrome - Cycling
- SANTOS Stadium - Athletics
- Adelaide Aquatic Centre - Swimming
- Ice ArenA - Ice Hockey
- Allan Scott Park - Horseracing
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