State Hockey Centre

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The State Hockey Centre, formerly known as the Pines Stadium and Distinctive Homes Hockey Arena, is a 4,000 capacity, government owned outdoor field hockey stadium located in Gepps Cross, a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It offers two international-standard wet hockey pitches which are used for both competition and training activities.It is the home to the Southern Hotshots and SA Suns in the Australian Hockey League.FeaturesPitch 1 has a 'TeamSports Surface - Auqaturf Evolution' surface and Pitch 2 has a 'STI - Poligras Olympia CoolPlus' surface.The stadium has fixed seating capacity of 330 and room for a further 4,000 temporary seats.The car park is capacity is 200 cars plus four disabled cars. Adjacent grassed areas to the west and north are used as overflow car parks for major events.The State Hockey Centre upstairs area has a Main Function Area and adjoining Pak Poy Room, along with bar/cafeteria facilities.A number of significant South Australian hockey identities are recognized in naming of parts of the hockey centre: Pitch One is named after inaugural groundsman Dave ScarmanPatrick Pak Poy who helped to get the State Hockey Centre built originally has the 'Pak Poy' function room named after himThe northern section of the grandstand is known as the Gerry Phillips EnclosureThe central section of the grandstand is known as the Lorna Jolly EnclosureUsesHockeyThe stadium is home to both Adelaide based teams in the Australian Hockey League, the men's SA Hotshots (formerly the Southern Hotshots) since 1991 and the women's SA Suns (formerly the Southern Suns) since 1993.