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Sportscover Arena as part of Sportscover's sponsorship deal with the VAFA. Sportscover Arena remains the home of the Elsternwick Cricket Club in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association. The Elsternwick Football Club, which still plays in the VAFA, now uses the park's No. 2 oval, located to the immediate west of Sportscover Arena, as its home ground. Since 2009, the
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in 1910, which invested £13,000 developing it from a swamp to a private golf course. When its lease expired in 1925, the
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Elsternwick Park since 1967, and it is now the Association's primary home base; it serves as the Association's administrative headquarters, the training base of its umpires, and is a venue for finals matches. Since 2003, the venue has had floodlights suitable for night
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disrepair – to the point that it was known colloquially as "no-man's land" in the district. The main oval was opened on approximately five acres of the reserve in 1903, and the rest of the reserve was leased by the
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Palmer, Scot (16 December 1961). "End of the road for Brighton...?".
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Palmer, Scot (21 January 1961). "VFA club near "end of road"".
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Palmer, Scot (30 March 1962). "Brighton saves its VFA place".
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Jack Dunn (4 April 1959). "St Kilda to seek new home ground".
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644:"Elsternwick Park – Brighton Council proposal".
603:. North Brighton, VIC. 25 April 1881. p. 5.
1146:Buildings and structures in the City of Bayside
663:. Melbourne, VIC. 15 September 1925. p. 9.
648:. Melbourne, VIC. 19 February 1925. p. 14.
618:. Melbourne, VIC. 24 September 1891. p. 9.
633:. Melbourne, VIC. 13 October 1921. p. 10.
580:. Victorian Amateur Football Association. 2014
536:. Melbourne, VIC. 2 November 1961. p. 50.
446:. Melbourne, VIC. 16 December 1926. p. 4.
413:. Melbourne, VIC. 11 November 1903. p. 7.
398:. Melbourne, VIC. 9 September 1902. p. 7.
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409:"Cricket – Victorian Cricket Association".
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476:. Melbourne. p. 16.
394:"A new cricket ground".
348:Kingston Heath Golf Club
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856:Mazenod Old Collegians
564:The Sun News-Pictorial
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329:Wider Elsternwick Park
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93:37.88472°S 144.99389°E
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578:"History of the VAFA"
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883:Division 1
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371:Austadiums
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129:Field size
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60:Brighton
55:Location
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376:16 July
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232:Cricket
227:History
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153:Tenants
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140:Grass
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