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| Former names | Lake Oval, South Melbourne Cricket Ground, Bob Jane Stadium |
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| Location | Aughtie Drive, Albert Park, Victoria |
| Coordinates | 37°50′25″S 144°57′54″E / 37.84028°S 144.96500°E |
| Operator | State Sports Centre Trust |
| Capacity | 12,000 (7,400 seated)[1] |
| Surface | Grass (soccer stadium), blue synthetic (athletics track) |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1876 |
| Opened | 1878 |
| Renovated | 1995, 2011, 2019 |
| Tenants | |
| Athletics
Australian Little Athletics Soccer other tenants Albert-park Football Club (Challenge Cup/VFA, 1878–1879) | |
| Ground information | |
| International information | |
| Only WODI | 31 January 1985: Australia v  England |
| As of 8 September 2020 Source: CricketArchive | |
Lakeside Stadium is an Australian sports arena in the South Melbourne suburb of Albert Park. Comprising an athletics track and soccer stadium, it currently serves as the home ground and administrative base for association football club 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 ground of the South Melbourne Football Club from 1879-1915, 1917-1941 and 1947-1981,[2] though Australian rules football had been played at the site since 1869. The ground has also been used for soccer from at least 1883.[3][4]
It is one of four sporting facilities in Melbourne organised under the banner of publicly funded organisation Melbourne Sports Centres - the others being the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC), the MSAC Institute of Training (MIT) and the State Netball and Hockey Centre (SNHC).[5]
- ^ "Lakeside Stadium". South Melbourne FC. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ South Melbourne did not compete in 1916 due to World War I, while the ground was occupied by the military from 1942 to 1946.
- ^ Syson, Ian (30 September 2013). "Victorian Soccer Fixtures and Results 1883". Neos Osmos. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "Lakeside Stadium". Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ "Melbourne Sports Centres - Home". melbournesportscentres.com.au. Retrieved 1 April 2020.