former champion player, coach and administrator of the club. Brian Faeshe was one of the driving forces in the formation of Richmond Oval while still a player with West Adelaide. Prior to the opening of Richmond Oval West Adelaide had used the Kensington Oval (1897), Jubilee Oval (1898–1906) and the Adelaide Oval (1907–1926) for its "home" games before gaining exclusive SANFL use of the main arena at the Wayville Showgrounds in 1927, the year of their fifth SANFL Premiership. The club used the showgrounds until the end of 1939 when it was taken over by the Australian Army following the outbreak of World War II. West then went back to the Adelaide Oval for its home games from 1940 until 1957, sharing the ground with South Adelaide. For both stints at the Adelaide Oval, this created problems because during the football season Souths, being the main tenant, had first use of the oval (league) and the Adelaide Oval No. 2 (reserves) for training purposes with Westies often having to train in the Adelaide Park Lands until Richmond became available for training from 1955. Prior to the 2010 SANFL season West Adelaide installed lights at Richmond Oval for night games. The lights have seen an increase of attendances at the ground with the first game under lights attracting the grounds current record night crowd of 6,133 for the opening game of the season with West defeating North Adelaide 14.19 (103) to 4.7 (31). The record attendance for a West Adelaide home game was set at Richmond Oval in 1969 when 15,742 attended the Round 5 fixture against Glenelg. Richmond Oval hosted its first Interstate game in 2013 when South Australia defeated Qld/NT (NEAFL north) 21.14 (140) to 9.4 (58). On 16 February 2014, Richmond played host to an AFL pre-season game in the 2014 NAB Challenge between Adelaide's two AFL teams, the Adelaide Crows and . In front of 8,765 fans, the Crows defeated Port Adelaide 0.18.11 (119) to 0.9.5 (59). The oval received over A$300,000 from the AFL for upgrades to the ground, including improved interchange area and coaches boxes, new goal and point posts and new grass. Club achievements Magarey Medallists The Magarey Medal is awarded to the fairest and most brilliant player in the SANFL. Men's League League top goalkickers The Ken Farmer Medal is awarded to the SANFL's leading goalkicker at the end of the minor round.