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Manuka Oval is a sporting venue in Canberra, the capital of Australia. It is located in Griffith , in the area of that suburb known as Manuka . Manuka Oval has a seating capacity of 13,550 people and an overall capacity of 16,000 people, although this is lower for some sports depending on the configuration used.
Manuka (/ ˈ m ɑː n ə k ə / MAH-nə-kə, sometimes pronounced as / m ɑː ˈ n uː k ə / Ma-NOO-ka) is an area in the Inner South district of Canberra, Australia covering parts of the suburbs of Griffith and Forrest. Manuka Shops, Manuka Oval, Manuka Swimming Pool, and Manuka Circle take their name from the park in the area.
The Manuka Oval and Caretaker’s Cottage, which began to be developed as a sports ground in the early 1920s and began to be developed as a formal enclosed oval in March 1929. The Heritage Council considers that it is "significant for its continual use as a Canberra sporting facility, retaining an array of features such as the historic tree ...
In 2001, the AFL club the Kangaroos signed a deal with the ACT government to play some home matches at Manuka Oval. The move was seen by many as part of a potential relocation of the club to Canberra an idea which had its origins in the mid 1980s. [22] [33] [34] The Kangaroos drew crowds
Manuka Oval, Canberra, Australia On the MCC tour of Australia in 1958–59 Prime Minister Robert Menzies had five Australian captains in his team; Lindsay Hassett , Ian Johnson , Arthur Morris , Ian Craig and Ray Lindwall , the all-rounder Sam Loxton and a Victorian wicket-keeper called Les Botham.
The club plays four home games per season at Manuka Oval (three regular season, one preseason), having signed a 10-year deal with the government of the Australian Capital Territory in 2012 worth $23 million. A Canberra logo is incorporated on its guernsey, with a slightly altered Canberra-specific guernsey used for the games at Manuka.
Manuka Football Club is a defunct Australian rules football club that played in the AFL Canberra from 1928–1991. The club played at Manuka Oval in the inner-south suburbs of Canberra . It merged with Eastlake Football Club in 1991.
The following table shows a list of all of grounds that are currently regularly used in the Australian Football League, as of the 2024 AFL season.The table includes grounds where teams have commercial deals in place to transfer home games to these grounds each season but are not full-time tenants of those grounds; in these cases, the club is shown in italics in the current tenants column.