Port Adelaide will play at Cazaly's Stadium for the first time in club history in its upcoming Round 7 clash with St Kilda. Image: AFL Photos.

DON'T be fooled. St Kilda hosting Port Adelaide on Saturday evening at "CS" is not a misprint of the AFL fixture. "CS" is not the venue first known as Colonial Stadium in 2000 that became Telstra Dome and then Etihad Stadium and is now Marvel Stadium.

Port Adelaide is entering new territory - Cazaly's Stadium in the tropics of north Queensland in Cairns. Home to (injured) key forward Charlie Dixon.

If the world was not a different place, the fixture would read "Adelaide Arena" - Jiangwan Stadium in Shanghai for the third rendition of the groundbreaking Port Adelaide-St Kilda games for AFL premiership points in China.

So Port Adelaide and St Kilda will play for AFL premiership points at a third "home away from home" - after matches at York Park in Launceston from 2003-2006 (much to the annoyance of then St Kilda coach Grant Thomas while Port Adelaide seemed more at home in Tasmania than his team) and in Shanghai in 2019.

On entering the national AFL in 1997, Port Adelaide was eagerly accepting its bags would be packed for longer road trips than Elizabeth Oval. And the adventure began on the road that season, to the MCG against Collingwood.

In 26 AFL seasons, Port Adelaide has played for premiership points at three home grounds - Football Park at West Lakes, Adelaide Oval and Jiangwan Stadium (while under State government orders that no home game can be moved from Adelaide Oval, hence the need to buy matches from Gold Coast and St Kilda).

And there have been 18 away venues - 19 from Saturday with Cazaly's (21 if anyone wants to be pedantic to argue Adelaide Oval and Football Park were also away venues during Showdowns).

Each venue carries a significant memory in the Port Adelaide story:

Bellerive Oval in Hobart in 2013 when senior assistant coach Alan Richardson covered for the ill Ken Hinkley in the match against North Melbourne.

Port Adelaide and North Melbourne clash in Hobart in 2013. Image: AFL Photos.

Carrara on the Gold Coast where the AFL record books show that two of Port Adelaide's 12 matches at Metricon Stadium were home games (against West Coast and Greater Western Sydney) during the COVID pandemic shutdown in Adelaide in 2020. Of the seven games against Gold Coast, Port Adelaide has a perfect 7-0 win-loss record.

The Docklands in west Melbourne where Port Adelaide had the honour of opening the AFL's first "indoor" venue with a retractable roof in 2000 against the near-invincible Essendon unit that claimed the flag that season.

Eureka (or Mars) Stadium in Ballarat, a venue always to be remembered for the microwave plugged in at the Port Adelaide bench to warm heat packs for the rain-drenched players during the match against the Western Bulldogs 2018.

The Gabba in Brisbane where Port Adelaide scored draws in its first two visits to the cricket ground once ringed by a greyhound racing track.

Kardinia Park at Geelong where captain Dom Cassisi famously kicked the winning goal with less than 10 seconds left on the clock in 2007 to end the home team's 15-game winning streak at Corio Bay.

The MCG ... always to be remembered for Port Adelaide's 15th (and most-important) win in AFL company on the game's oldest paddock, on September 25, 2004.

Manuka Oval in Canberra where Port Adelaide has won just once in six visits to the national capital.

Marrara Oval in Darwin where - on the first visit in 2004 - Port Adelaide rewrote the record books with its biggest winning margin (86 points) against the Western Bulldogs.

Shaun Burgoyne gathers the loose ball in Port Adelaide's 2006 clash with the Bulldogs at Marrara Oval. Image: AFL Photos.

Perth Stadium, the billion-dollar (plus) venue where Port Adelaide played on Good Friday for the first time in 2019 - and stunned West Coast with its "dirty ball" tactics.

Princes Park, Carlton. No more needs to be said than round 7, May 9, 1998. Warren Tredrea, in his eighth AFL game, finished with a knee injury ... after taking 17 marks and kicking 8.4 in Port Adelaide's 89-point win against Carlton.

SCG in Sydney where Jared Poulton in round 15, 2002 became the 35th player in league history to sink South Melbourne-Sydney with a goal after the siren - and dedicated the moment to a long-time friend who had died in what had been an emotional week for the defender.

Subiaco Oval in Perth where Port Adelaide finished the so-called toughest road trip in Australian football with a meritorious 15-15 win-loss record, including a stunning second-half comeback against Fremantle in the 2014 semi-finals.

Showgrounds in west Sydney where the first visit, with defeat to Greater Western Sydney in 2012, marked the final game of Matthew Primus' coaching stint - and hastened plans between the AFL and SANFL to end using Port Adelaide's AFL licence as a political card.

Traeger Park in Alice Springs where Port Adelaide has a perfect hat-trick of wins against Melbourne from 2014-2016.

Ollie Wines gets the kick away in Port Adelaide's 2015 contest at Traeger Park. Image: AFL Photos.

The old WACA cricket ground in Perth where Port Adelaide played twice, both times against Fremantle. The first, in round 17, 1999, ended in a seven-point win built on a five-goal last term that helped consolidate Port Adelaide's place in the AFL top eight and first berth to the AFL finals.

VFL-AFL Park at Waverely that then made way for York Park in Tasmania as the venue for Port Adelaide's away clashes with Hawthorn and St Kilda - and sensational finishes, including Magarey Medallist Brett Ebert's winning goal against Hawthorn with three seconds left on the clock in 2007 when Ebert and Daniel Motlop scored two goals in the final minute.

In total, 250 games away from Adelaide for a 110-3-137 win-draw-loss record.

So now to Cazaly's - a land strip, then made up of dense bushland, purchased by Collingwood premiership player Bruce Andrew in 1957 when he was leading the Australian National Football Council and Australian football was developing new territories (with Brisbane hosting the Australian national football carnival in 1961).

The venue carries the name of high-flying South Melbourne and St Kilda hero Roy Cazaly.

Since 2011, when the venue was upgraded, the AFL has programmed "home" games for Richmond, the Western Bulldogs, Gold Coast and St Kilda and was the training base for Fremantle and Sydney during the COVID shutdown in Season 2020.

The playing field is listed as 165-metres long and 135-metres wide - two metres shorter than Adelaide Oval and 12 metres wider.

It is not Shanghai. But the mantra of "anywhere, anytime" still applies.