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 2023 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.

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Current Australian Football League grounds

Ground	Image	Other/sponsored names	City	State/territory	Capacity	First used	Games	Current tenant(s)
Melbourne Cricket Ground		MCG The 'G	Melbourne	Victoria	100,024[2]	1897	3050	Collingwood Hawthorn Melbourne Richmond Essendon Carlton
Perth Stadium		Optus Stadium (2018–present)	Perth	Western Australia	60,000[3]	2018	135	West Coast Fremantle
Adelaide Oval			Adelaide	South Australia	53,583[4]	1877[5][n 1]	233	Adelaide Port Adelaide
Docklands Stadium		Colonial Stadium (2000–2002) Telstra Dome (2003–2008) Etihad Stadium (2009–2018) Marvel Stadium (2018–present)	Melbourne	Victoria	53, 359[6]	2000	1073	Essendon North Melbourne St Kilda Western Bulldogs Carlton
Sydney Cricket Ground		SCG	Sydney	New South Wales	48,000[7]	1903[8]	450	Sydney
The Gabba		Brisbane Cricket Ground	Brisbane	Queensland	42,000[9]	1991	397	Brisbane
Kardinia Park		Shell Stadium (1999–2001) Baytec Stadium (2002 pre-season) Skilled Stadium (2002–2011) Simonds Stadium (2012–2017) GMHBA Stadium (2017–present)[10]	Geelong	Victoria	40,000[11]	1941	711	Geelong
Carrara Stadium		Metricon Stadium (2011–2022) Heritage Bank Stadium (2023) People First Stadium (2024-present)	Gold Coast	Queensland	25,000[n 2][12]	1987	237	Gold Coast
Sydney Showground Stadium		Škoda Stadium (2012–2013) Spotless Stadium (2014–2018) GIANTS Stadium (2019–2023)[13]ENGIE Stadium (2024-present)	Sydney	New South Wales	25,000	2012	93	Greater Western Sydney[14]
York Park		Aurora Stadium (2004–2016) University of Tasmania Stadium (2017–present)	Launceston	Tasmania	20,000[15]	2001	88	Hawthorn[n 3]
Bellerive Oval		Blundstone Arena (2012–present)	Hobart	Tasmania	20,000	2012	36	North Melbourne[n 3][14]
Manuka Oval		StarTrack Oval Canberra (2013–2016) UNSW Canberra Oval (2017–present)	Canberra	ACT	16,000[16]	1998	59	Greater Western Sydney
Marrara Oval		TIO Stadium (2006–present)	Darwin	Northern Territory	12,000[17]	2004	26	Gold Coast[n 3]
Eureka Stadium		Mars Stadium (2017–present)	Ballarat	Victoria	11,000	2017	12	Western Bulldogs[n 3]
Traeger Park		TIO Traeger Park	Alice Springs	Northern Territory	10,000[18]	2014[19]	9	Melbourne[n 3]

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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 see 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 under age, 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 Hawthorn and St Kilda. Original plans called for the grounds 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 did become 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.

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 April 2023.