Chaplin Reserve

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Chaplin Reserve
Chaplin Reserve
Location Sunshine, Victoria
Coordinates 37°47′6″S144°49′43″E / 37.78500°S 144.82861°E / -37.78500; 144.82861
Owner City of Brimbank
Capacity 5,000
SurfaceGrass
Construction
Opened1980
Demolished2019
Tenants
Sunshine George Cross

Chaplin Reserve was an Australian football (soccer) stadium in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. It was the home of Sunshine George Cross from 1980 to 2017, buying the facility from the State Government in 1997. The stadium had a capacity of 5,000. Chaplin Reserve was also home to the Sunshine George Cross Bocci Club. The state government sold the land to the soccer club on the condition that it was only used for the purpose of a private sports ground. [1]

Despite the reserve being sold to George Cross on the condition that it was only used for the purpose of a private sports ground, George Cross sold the reserve to developers in 2016, who intend to build 150 townhouses on the site, despite angry objections by Sunshine residents. [1] [2] The soccer club will move to a new council facility in Taylors Hill, Victoria, worth $13m. [3]


Chaplin Reserve in 2015 Chaplin Reserve in 2015.jpg
Chaplin Reserve in 2015
  1. 1 2 "Star Weekly | Friends of gardens up in arms over Chaplin Reserve plan". Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  2. "Star Weekly | Former soccer ground set for townhouse transformation". www.starweekly.com.au. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  3. "Star Weekly | Cash splash for Fraser Rise sporting complex - Star Weekly". www.starweekly.com.au. Retrieved 12 August 2018.

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