Lakeside Stadium

Capacity: 12,000 (approx)
Record Crowd: 41,000 – Carlton vs South Melbourne (July 30th, 1932)
Home Teams:

• Australian Little Athletics (Athletics)
• Athletics Victoria (Athletics)
• Athletics Australia (Athletics)
• South Melbourne FC (Soccer/NPL)
• Melbourne Victory FC – Youth Team (Soccer)
• Melbourne Victory FC – Women’s Team (Soccer)

Lakeside Stadium is an Australian sports arena in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park. Comprising an athletics track and a soccer field, it currently serves as the home ground and administrative base for the South Melbourne FC, Athletics Victoria, Athletics Australia, Victorian Institute of Sport and Australian Little Athletics.

The venue was built on the site of a former Australian rules football and cricket ground, the Lakeside Oval (also called the Lake Oval and the South Melbourne Cricket Ground), which served for more than a century as the home ground of the South Melbourne Cricket Club and most notably as the home of the South Melbourne Football Club (Swans) from 1879 until they relocated to Sydney in 1981, though Australian rules football had been played at the site for nine years prior to the oval’s construction. The ground has also been used for soccer from at least 1883.

It is one of four state-supported sporting facilities in Melbourne – the others being the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC), the MSAC Institute of Training (MIT) and the State Netball and Hockey Centre (SNHC) – organised under the banner of Melbourne Sports Centres.