The
Springvale Football Club (SFC) was formed in 1903 and moved to Springvale Reserve in 1915. The club was admitted into the
Victorian Football Association (VFA) – later renamed to the
Victorian Football League (VFL) – in
1982. The highest recorded VFA crowd at Springvale Reserve was during the
1986 Division 1 season, when 5,600 people attended Springvale's round 8 match against . By 2000 – the year that the VFL merged with the
AFL reserves – the facilities at Springvale Reserve were in a rundown condition, and
Football Victoria officials ruled that the ground wasn't up to VFL standard. SFC played all but one of its home matches at
Waverley Park during the
2000 season, before moving all home matches to either
Moorabbin Oval or
Shepley Oval in
2001 and
2002. In both
2003 and
2004, seven VFL matches were played at Springvale Reserve. In 2005, SFC reached an arrangement with the
City of Casey, which had developed the new
Casey Fields multi-sports complex in
Cranbourne East and was seeking for a VFL team to play there. The club moved its training and playing base to Casey Fields in 2006, changing its name to the
Casey Scorpions. Ahead of the move, SFC played all of its home matches at Springvale Reserve during the
2005 season (the first time it had done this since
1998). The final VFA/VFL match at the ground was between Springvale and on 14 August 2005. A digital scoreboard was installed at Springvale Reserve in 2013. During the
2022 Victorian state election campaign, the
Labor Party committed to funding which would upgrade the ground's facilities, including the main oval and cricket nets. The upgrades were completed in July 2025. ==References==