Adelaide Oval Stadium Tour: Behind-the-Scenes Exploration of Iconic Ground

Get exclusive access to the operations of the iconic Adelaide Oval. A passionate volunteer guide, well-versed with the oval, will take you through this monumental stadium. Their love for the stadium is contagious and their anecdotes about it are fascinating.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Adelaide Oval - The redeveloped Adelaide Oval offers a unique blend of new and old, carefully integrating the latest in stadium design with famous features such as the heritage scoreboard, century-old Moreton Bay Fig trees, the grassed northern mound and more. These elements form an embedded museum, with integrated points of interest and…
What's Included
  • Local Tour Guide
  • Behind the Scenes Tour
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
Additional Information
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Enclosed footwear is required, the tour does cover 2.5km of walking (stiletto heels are not permitted)
  • There is no wheelchair access inside the heritage listed scoreboard but there is access to all other areas
Location
Adelaide Oval
War Memorial Drive
Enter the Adelaide Oval through the South Gate off War Memorial Drive. Approach Adelaide Oval Stadium Concierge to check-in for your tour.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Nandinabarun
Apr 24, 2025
The best guided tour for cricket fans in Adelaide - We did this Viator guided tour of Adelaide Oval on Easter Monday 2025. It was one of the best guided tours I have done, though I may be biased with my entire review as I am a crazy cricket lover/fanatic and Adelaide Oval was one of the very special grounds I always wanted to go behind the scenes and get a glimpse of history and geography. Big shout out to Alex and Tony who were the tour guides for our tour, I was part of the group which Alex took around. Alex was just fabulous, the knowledge, the passion and the love for the Oval, the games that happened there came out every time he spoke, or I asked a question, which he welcomed with a smile! We went to the media box, then to the Lounge from where we can see NFL change rooms, then to the Victor Richardson gate dedicated to the same sportsperson (got goosebumps when Alex mentioned the versatility of the sportsperson), then the corporate lounges which has a restaurant open to general public, then went to see the old scoreboard both from the outside and inside its belly and understood the operations of the manual scoreboard, bit of history of the trees on the north Adelaide hills part of the ground which has trees but no sitting stands, then to the members area which was just a beautiful old architectural marvel, the Sheffield room with its memorabilia and finally onto the oval greens sidelines (dug out of the teams) which to me was the moment of the entire tour, to be at the same ground level on the extra-turf where the greats of cricket had fielded sealed the deal for me! Felt bloody proud of my cricketing heritage when I saw multiple centurion names of Tendulkar, Kohli, Lakshman, Sehwag and Pujara on the honour board, along with my fav Aussies boys like Ponting, Waugh, Gilly. Finally, there is a mini-museum of Sir Don Bradman inside the stadium, we did a relaxed visit of the museum and that brought back memories of my trip a couple of years back to Bowral Bradman Museum in NSW which is Sir Don’s home and initial birth of cricketing career where the whole time is like a museum. Overall, the best guided tour of my Adelaide trip and would definitely recommend any cricket lover this tour as a must do!
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Nabarun_n
Apr 24, 2025
Best trip in Adelaide for Cricket fans - We did this Viator guided tour of Adelaide Oval on Easter Monday 2025. It was one of the best guided tours I have done, though I may be biased with my entire review as I am a crazy cricket lover/fanatic and Adelaide Oval was one of the very special grounds I always wanted to go behind the scenes and get a glimpse of history and geography. Big shout out to Alex and Tony who were the tour guides for our tour, I was part of the group which Alex took around. Alex was just fabulous, the knowledge, the passion and the love for the Oval, the games that happened there came out every time he spoke, or I asked a question, which he welcomed with a smile! We went to the media box, then to the Lounge from where we can see NFL change rooms, then to the Victor Richardson gate dedicated to the same sportsperson (got goosebumps when Alex mentioned the versatility of the sportsperson), then the corporate lounges which has a restaurant open to general public, then went to see the old scoreboard both from the outside and inside its belly and understood the operations of the manual scoreboard, bit of history of the trees on the north Adelaide hills part of the ground which has trees but no sitting stands, then to the members area which was just a beautiful old architectural marvel, the Sheffield room with its memorabilia and finally onto the oval greens sidelines (dug out of the teams) which to me was the moment of the entire tour, to be at the same ground level on the extra-turf where the greats of cricket had fielded sealed the deal for me! Felt bloody proud of my cricketing heritage when I saw multiple centurion names of Tendulkar, Kohli, Lakshman, Sehwag and Pujara on the honour board, along with my fav Aussies boys like Ponting, Waugh, Gilly. Finally, there is a mini-museum of Sir Don Bradman inside the stadium, we did a relaxed visit of the museum and that brought back memories of my trip a couple of years back to Bowral Bradman Museum in NSW which is Sir Don’s home and initial birth of cricketing career where the whole time is like a museum. Overall, the best guided tour of my Adelaide trip and would definitely recommend any cricket lover this tour as a must do!
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Jenny_h
Mar 22, 2025
Adelaide Oval - A complete 360* tour of Adelaide Oval enjoying how it operates for cricket and football, as well as the history behind its beginnings. Allen answered all our questions. Loved learning how the original score board works. Even get to walk out onto the edge of the ground. A must do for sports fans!!
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Nmnorton
Mar 16, 2025
Very informative tour. - Great tour with very interesting commentary. We all enjoyed it. Definitely recommend a visit. Our guide had good knowledge of the history and presented well.
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Rogerl666
Mar 5, 2025
Great economical sports fan tour in Adelaide - Learned about about the history of Australia and more specifically Southern Australia cricket and AFL history. Great tour for any sports fan. Tour of the inside of the mechanical scoreboard was a highlight.
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Christopher_z
Mar 3, 2025
Adelaide Oval Tour - Staff all very welcoming with a chance to visit the Bradman Museum before the tour starts. The tour guide was very informative and took us around the ground at a leisurely pace. Even got inside the very famous score box to see how everything works. A thoroughly enjoyable way to spend 90 minutes and catch up on Cricket and Football sporting history
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Julia_z
Feb 28, 2025
Adelaide Oval Tour - Tour exceeded our expectations. Very thorough and covered a lot of the Oval areas that we did not expect to see.
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Glenys_t
Mar 15, 2025
Definitely worth seeing! - The oval is very impressive & we very much enjoyed the tour. It would have been better if the guide had a microphone, as he was hard to hear.
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Vicki
Mar 13, 2025
Doing the ovals one at a time - Great tour. Got to see the old and new of the stadium. Well worth the cost of the tour. Just a shame the tour guide wasn’t the best photographer though 😂
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Paul_c
Mar 10, 2025
Adelaide CRICKET Ground - The setting of The Oval was excellent. Enjoyed the tour, but too many access issues. Too much concentration on AFL.
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).