The Australian Football League has numerous grounds upon which senior VFL/AFL games have been played. This list comprises current grounds in use, former grounds in use (both major and minor), regional pre-season grounds and international grounds.

In accordance with the Laws of Australian football, a ground must be grass, have a length of to and a width of and . Most Australian rules football grounds are also used for cricket, which is also played on a grassed, oval-shaped ground, and it is commonplace for a ground to be used for football in winter and cricket in summer.

Due to the popularity of Australian rules football, particularly in southern Australia, most of Australia's largest stadiums by capacity are used for Australian rules football; and it is therefore common to use those stadiums for other high-drawing events, particularly sporting events. Sports such as rugby and soccer can be readily played on an Australian rules football arena, as their rectangular fields are small enough to be set on the larger oval.

The oldest Australian Football League ground is the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The ground was built in 1854 and is still used for hosting AFL matches, including each year's grand final. The ground also has the largest capacity, at 100,024. The ground that made its most recent AFL debut is Hands Oval in South Bunbury, Western Australia, which hosted its first match during the 2025 season.

As of 2025, 52 different venues have hosted VFL/AFL premiership matches since the league was established in 1897.

AFL/VFL premiership season venues

Current grounds The following table shows a list of all of grounds that are currently regularly used in the Australian Football League, as of the 2025 AFL season. The table includes grounds where teams have commercial deals in place to transfer home games to these grounds each season but are not full-time tenants of those grounds; in these cases, the club is shown in italics in the current tenants column.

+ Current Australian Football League grounds Ground Image Other/sponsored names City State/territory Capacity First usedGames Current tenant(s) Melbourne Cricket Ground MCG The 'G Melbourne Victoria 100,024 18973151EssendonCarlton St Kilda Perth Stadium Optus Stadium (2018–present) Perth Western Australia 61,266 2018181 Docklands Stadium Colonial Stadium (2000–2002)Telstra Dome (2003–2008)Etihad Stadium (2009–2018)Marvel Stadium (2018–present) Melbourne Victoria 56,347 20001159 Adelaide Oval Adelaide South Australia 53,583 1877Adelaide Oval hosted its first AFL match in round 24 of the 2011 season as a home game against . The ground was redeveloped and has hosted all Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Power home games from the 2014 season onwards, replacing Football Park.291 Sydney Cricket Ground SCG Sydney New South Wales 48,000 1903All venues – AFLTables. Retrieved 2 July 2011.474 Brisbane Cricket Ground Brisbane Queensland 42,000 1981421 Brisbane Kardinia Park Shell Stadium (1999–2001)Baytec Stadium (2002 pre-season)Skilled Stadium (2002–2011)Simonds Stadium (2012–2017)GMHBA Stadium (2017–present) Geelong Victoria 40,000 1941730 Carrara Stadium Metricon Stadium (2011–2022) Heritage Bank Stadium (2023) People First Stadium (2024–present) Gold Coast Queensland 25,000Redevelopment for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. 1987255 Sydney Showground Stadium Škoda Stadium (2012–2013)Spotless Stadium (2014–2018)GIANTS Stadium (2019–2023)ENGIE Stadium (2024–present) Sydney New South Wales 23,500 2012111 Bellerive Oval Blundstone Arena (2012–2024)Ninja Stadium (2024-present) Hobart Tasmania 19,500 201242 Tasmania Football Club York Park Aurora Stadium (2004–2016)University of Tasmania Stadium (2017–present) Launceston Tasmania 15,615 200196 The club is not a full-time tenant of the ground, but has a commercial deal in place to play home games at the venue.Tasmania Football Club Manuka Oval StarTrack Oval Canberra (2013–2016) UNSW Canberra Oval (2017–2024) Corrobbee Group Oval (2025–present) Canberra ACT 15,000 199865 Marrara Oval TIO Stadium (2006–present) Darwin Northern Territory 12,000 200430 Eureka Stadium Mars Stadium (2017–present)BallaratVictoria 11,000 201715 Traeger Park TIO Traeger Park Alice Springs Northern Territory 10,000 201411 Hands Oval JE Hands Memorial Park South Bunbury Western Australia 8,000 20251

Future or proposed AFL venues StadiumCityState/TerritoryCapacityTenantsOpening DateMacquarie Point StadiumHobartTasmania23,000Tasmania Football Club2031Brisbane Olympic StadiumBrisbaneQueensland63,000Brisbane Lions2032

Former major grounds

The following table comprises a list of former grounds that were at one stage the primary home ground, or a long-term secondary home ground, for a club to play its VFL/AFL matches on.

Most of the grounds were the original homes of current teams (for example, Arden Street Oval was North Melbourne's home ground) and have ceased hosting VFL/AFL matches, usually due to location and lack of capacity. Princes Park was the last of the Victorian suburban venues to host an AFL game, with the last match occurring in 2005. These grounds now usually serve as a boutique training oval and administrative base for these AFL clubs, and some are used for underage, VFL, AFL Women's, or suburban league matches.

Waverley Park (originally known as VFL Park), located in Mulgrave, Victoria was the first purpose-built stadium for VFL/AFL matches, opening in 1970. Until the 1990s, it did not serve as any team's home ground, but was instead a neutral venue to which each club shifted one or two of its home matches each year; in the 1990s, it was adopted as a home ground by and . Original plans called for the ground's capacity to be 155,000, which would have made it one of the largest stadiums in the world. The venue, with its planned higher capacity, was originally to be a replacement for the Melbourne Cricket Ground as host of the VFL's Grand Final. However, in 1982/1983, when the extensions to finish the original plans were due to commence, the Government of Victoria refused to approve the plans for the stadium because the upgrade would have threatened the Melbourne Cricket Ground's right to host the Grand Final: hence, no further development ever occurred and the capacity was set at 78,000. It was used until 1999, and was replaced by the Docklands Stadium.

Football Park, which was located in West Lakes, Adelaide, had a similar history to Waverley Park; it was purpose built for South Australian National Football League (SANFL) games and opened in 1974, replacing Adelaide Oval as the primary venue for the league: unlike Waverley Park, it became the venue for SANFL Grand Finals. It was the primary South Australian venue for VFL/AFL matches from 1991 (when the league expanded into Adelaide) until 2013, and it was replaced by the newly refurbished Adelaide Oval.

Ground Other/sponsored namesCity StateCapacity Games First used Last usedTenant(s) Arden Street Oval North Melbourne Recreation Reserve North Melbourne Victoria 35,000 529 1925 1985 North Melbourne Brunswick Street Oval Fitzroy Cricket Ground North Fitzroy Victoria 10,000 612 1897 1966 Fitzroy Coburg City Oval Coburg Victoria 36,000 9 1965 1965 North Melbourne Corio Oval Geelong Victoria 25,000 371 1897 1940 Geelong East Melbourne Cricket Ground East Melbourne Victoria 18,000 225 1897 1921 Essendon: 1897–1921 University: 1908–1910 Football Park AAMI Stadium (2002–2015) West Lakes South Australia 51,240 458 1991 2015 and played regular season matches at Football Park until the end of the 2013 season, but a NAB Challenge match was played at the ground between the two sides in 2015. Glenferrie Oval Hawthorn Victoria 36,000 443 1925 1973 Hawthorn Junction Oval St Kilda Cricket Ground St Kilda Victoria 47,000 734 1897 1984 St Kilda: 1897–1964 Fitzroy: 1970–1984 Lake Oval South Melbourne Cricket Ground Albert Park Victoria 41,000 704 1897 1981 South Melbourne Moorabbin Oval RSEA Park (2019–present) Moorabbin Victoria 51,370 254 1965 1992 St Kilda Princes Park Optus Oval (1994–2006)MC Labour Park (2007–2008)Visy Park (2009–2015)Ikon Park (2015–Present) Carlton Victoria 62,986 1,277 1897 2005 Carlton: 1897–2005 Fitzroy: 1967–1969, 1987–1993 Hawthorn: 1974–1991 South Melbourne: 1942–1943 Western Bulldogs: 1997–1999 Punt Road Oval Richmond Cricket GroundmeBank Centre (2011–2016)Swinburne Centre (2017–present) Richmond Victoria 46,000 544 1908 1964 Richmond: 1908–1964Melbourne: 1942–1946, 1956 Stadium Australia Telstra Stadium (2002–2007)ANZ Stadium (2008–2016) Sydney Olympic Park New South Wales 82,500 56 2002 2022 Sydney Subiaco Oval Patersons Stadium (2011–2014)Domain Stadium (2015–2017) Perth Western Australia 42,922 545 1987 2017 West Coast: 1987–2017Fremantle: 1995–2017 Victoria Park Abbotsford Victoria 47,000 880 1897 1999 Collingwood: 1897–1999 Fitzroy: 1985–1986 WACA Ground East Perth Western Australia 35,000 72 1987 2000 West Coast: 1987–2000 Fremantle: 1995–2000 Waverley Park VFL Park (1970–1991) Mulgrave Victoria 78,000 92,935* 732 1970 1999 Central ground: 1970–1991Hawthorn: 1992–1999 St Kilda: 1993–1999 Western Oval Whitten Oval West Footscray Victoria 42,354 665 1925 1997 Footscray: 1925, 1941, 1943–1997 Fitzroy: 1994–1996 Windy Hill Essendon Recreation Reserve Essendon Victoria 43,487 629 1922 1991 Essendon

Other minor grounds

Minor grounds have been used in the VFL/AFL, but only sparingly. In addition to former commercial deals to sell home games which are no longer active, there have been two main reasons historically for this: For promotional events. Prominent examples of this include Gather Round and National Day Round. Due to unavailability of primary home grounds. In particular, minor grounds were also used throughout World War II, as some of the larger grounds throughout Victoria were being occupied by servicemen. Number of times used is correct to September 2025.

Ground City State/Country Capacity Games Last used Uses Albury Oval Albury New South Wales 8,000 1 1952 National Day Round 1952Barossa ParkLyndochSouth Australia 10,000 2 2025Gather Round 2025Blacktown International SportsparkSydney New South Wales 10,000 1 2012 GWS vs : used for GWS' inaugural home match before the Showground Stadium was complete Brisbane Exhibition Ground Brisbane Queensland 25,490 1 1952 National Day Round 1952 Bruce Stadium Canberra Australian Capital Territory 25,000 1 1995 Fitzroy vs West Coast: round 9, 1995 Cazalys Stadium Cairns Queensland 13,500 14 2022 One game per year from 2011–2022 under various dealsFour games during 2022 COVID-19 pandemic Euroa Oval Euroa Victoria 7,500 1 1952 National Day Round 1952 Jiangwan Stadium Shanghai China 11,000 3 2019: one game per year from 2017–19The club was not a full-time tenant of the ground, but had a commercial deal in place to play home games at the venue. Motordrome Melbourne Victoria 30 000 3 1932 Melbourne: three home games in early 1932 when MCG was being resurfaced. North Hobart Oval Hobart Tasmania 18,000 5 1992 National Day Round 1952Fitzroy: two home games in each of 1991 and 1992Norwood OvalNorwoodSouth Australia 10,000 6 2025Gather Round 2023, 2024, 2025 Riverway Stadium Townsville Queensland 10,000 1 2019 vs , round 13 2019Summit Sport and Recreation ParkMount BarkerSouth Australia7,32932024Gather Round 2023, 2024 Toorak Park Melbourne Victoria 15,000 13 1942–43 St Kilda: home games for the 1942 and 1943 seasonsSouth Melbourne: occasional home games during World War II Wellington Regional Stadium Wellington New Zealand 36,000 3 2013–15 St Kilda: one home game each year from 2013 to 2015 Yarraville Oval Melbourne Victoria 10,000 7 1942 Footscray: home games for the 1942 VFL season. Yallourn Oval Yallourn Victoria 3,500 1 1952 National Day Round 1952

Pre-season venues

The following list, is a list of the venues that have been used in AFL pre-season competition.