Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Having evaluated various sites north of Brisbane along with greenfield sites near Brisbane Airport and sites in the southern corridor such as Springwood in 2018, the Brisbane Lions settled on vacant land in Springfield. $70 million was the initial estimate for the cost of construction, with the final cost being $82.1 million.
Giffin Park is a sports venue in Coorparoo, a suburb in Brisbane, Australia. It includes an Australian rules football ground. [2] It was formerly used by the Brisbane Lions as their secondary training venue and is used during the summer due to clashes with the Australian Cricket season. [3] The Lions NEAFL team formerly used it as a home ground.
Construction on the new $70 million state-of-the-art Brisbane Lions AFL Stadium began in 2021 and is set for completion in September 2022. The stadium, officially named the Brighton Homes Arena, will be the first-ever, purpose built dedicated stadium to a women’s sports team, namely the Brisbane Lions AFLW. [12]
Springfield Central Stadium serves as both the training base of the Brisbane Lions and the home ground of Brisbane's AFLW team. Between 1997 and 2022, the club trained out of the Gabba during the football season. The club's administrative and indoor training facilities were also located in the stadium.
The club's AFL assets were taken over by the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears Football Club who then changed their name at the end of 1996 and as a condition of that deal, on November 1, 1996, Brisbane Bears members voted to change their club's name to the Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club (BBFFC or Brisbane Lions). There were as many as seven ...
Queensland Lions Football Club, known as Lions FC, is a soccer club based in Brisbane, Australia. Founded in 1957 as Hollandia Inala Soccer Club , the club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Queensland .
The rivalry between the Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide can be traced back to July 1996 when the Fitzroy Football Club and the Brisbane Bears merged to form the Brisbane Lions as Port Adelaide were due to enter the AFL with the Brisbane Lions in 1997. Fans of both Fitzroy and the Brisbane Bears were disappointed at losing their clubs as ...
Home of the Queensland Bulls (Cricket) and the Brisbane Lions (Australian rules football), the Gabba hosted Olympic football matches for the Sydney 2000 Olympics and was the site of the famous tied test of 1960 between the West Indies and Australia. Teams based there include: Queensland Bulls and Brisbane Lions (Australian rules football).