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Western Sydney Stadium, currently known as CommBank Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in the suburb of Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It replaced the demolished Parramatta Stadium (1986) which in turn was built on the site of the old Cumberland Oval, home ground to the Parramatta Eels since 1947. The ...
Australian rules football: Gold Coast Suns: Sydney Showground Stadium: Sydney: New South Wales: Oval 24,000: Australian rules football: GWS Cricket: Sydney Thunder Soccer: Western Sydney Wanderers* Wollongong Showground: Wollongong: New South Wales: Rectangular 23,000 [12] Rugby league: St George Illawarra Dragons: Brookvale Oval: Sydney: New ...
Since the inception of the A-League Men, Australian association football's highest level annual men's league tournament, 26 soccer stadiums have been used as home grounds for A-League Men clubs. Of the stadiums currently serving as a team's regular home stadium, Brisbane Roar 's Lang Park is the largest stadium in the league at 52,000, whilst ...
Stadium Capacity City Club Notes Wyndham City Stadium: c. 15,000 Melbourne: Western United: After construction finished on the 5,000 capacity stadium Ironbark Fields; the first of two phases of stadium expansion which began in 2022, [78] the full 15,000 capacity stadium is currently under construction and is expected to finish in 2026.
The idea of an AFL team from western Sydney originated from the AFL's plans in 1999 to make the North Melbourne Football Club Sydney's second team. Following the momentum of the relocated Swans Grand Final appearance, the AFL had backed the move for North Melbourne, a club which had then previously gained market exposure by defeating the Swans in their first re-location Grand Final appearance ...
Parramatta Stadium was a sports stadium in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, 24 km (15 mi) west of Sydney CBD.The stadium was the home ground of several western Sydney-based sports teams, at the time of closure the most notable were the Parramatta Eels of the National Rugby League and the Western Sydney Wanderers of the A-League.
[3] [4] An unsuccessful bid named "Sydney Blues", which had proposed to play at the Sydney Football Stadium was the only other Sydney-based bid. [5] Sydney FC entered the A-League with a five-year city exclusivity deal as part of the league's "one-city, one-team" policy, preventing the establishment of another Sydney-based club until the deal ...
Venues NSW is an agency of the Government of New South Wales that owns and operates several sporting facilities across New South Wales, Australia.It was established on 2 March 2012 from the merger of three trusts, namely the Hunter Region Sporting Venues Authority, Parramatta Stadium Trust and Illawarra Venues Authority. [2]