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See if your club is on the list: Eighty two sporting clubs will divide $20m in funding for new and renovated facilities.

A $20m funding pot will be distributed to local sporting clubs by the state government.

Eighty two clubs will on Monday be announced as winners of grants worth up to $1.5m each, with the most common big-ticket items to build new or upgrade old clubrooms.

Sports Minister Corey Wingard said sport and recreation organisations had shown keen interest when the latest round of applications opened in June, and had put forward design concepts for their new developments as well as photographs of substandard existing facilities.

“We’re building what matters to South Australians and investing – approximately $45m in the past two years,’’ he said.

“These are all grassroots club projects that make a genuine difference to people’s lives.

“This money has and continues to help build new grandstands, changerooms, toilets, kitchens,

canteens, first aid rooms and is transforming clubs into wheelchair-friendly spaces.”

Mr Wingard said as well as encouraging wheelchair-friendly development, the growing demand of women’s sport has also being recognised in the grants.

“We know now more than ever girls and young women are taking up sport and the appropriate facilities must be in place to accommodate and support the next generation of South Australian athletes,’’ he said.

The planned Adelaide Community Sports and Recreation Association, facilities at Mirnu Wirra Park 21.

“Our program has an enormous impact on the community and a benefit is seeing more people be active and healthy through participation in local sports.

“Further to that, we see hundreds of jobs created during the construction phase of these projects in a huge boost to our local economy.

Mr Wingard said the funding total for sporting projects from the state government since the 2018 election was more than $400m.

The Tea Tree Gully council will receive $1.5m for new club rooms and lighting at the Modbury Sporting Club.

The Tea Tree Gully City Soccer Club will get the same amount for clubrooms, two new changerooms and refurbishment of the existing two changerooms and new referee and medical facilities.

The Adelaide Community Sports and Recreation Association also gets $1.5m for

a new community sporting hub building.

Port Adelaide Football and Community Club will be given $1.5m for its oval redevelopment.

In the regions, Murray Bridge Council’s stadium development will get $1.5m, as will the

Tanunda recreation park community clubrooms and changerooms.

Photographs of the Adelaide Community Sports and Recreation Association, facilities at Mirnu Wirra Park 21, before upgrade.