The following article lists stadiums used presently or in the past for rugby union in Australia.
While these stadiums are occasionally used by rugby union, none except Ballymore could be described as "rugby union grounds" per se. All are used principally for rugby league and/or Australian rules football. Several of these stadiums, primarily those with rectangular fields, are also used for soccer.
Stadiums used by the defunct Australian Rugby Championship and the 2003 Rugby World Cup are included for posterity.
These grounds have been used in the past, but don't host club or international fixtures (used less frequently than once a year).
Demolished stadiums in Italics.
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Home match venues for the 2014 NRC season: [1]
State | Team | Match Venue | Capacity | City |
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ACT | University of Canberra Vikings | Viking Park | 10,000 | Canberra |
NSW | NSW Country Eagles | Caltex Park | 12,000 | Dubbo |
Central Coast Stadium | 20,059 | Gosford | ||
Oakes Oval | 10,000 | Lismore | ||
Wade Park | 8,000 | Orange | ||
Coogee Oval | 5,000 | Sydney | ||
Greater Sydney Rams | Parramatta Stadium | 21,500 | ||
North Harbour Rays | Brookvale Oval | 23,000 | ||
Sydney Stars | Leichhardt Oval | 20,000 | ||
QLD | Brisbane City | Suncorp Stadium | 52,500 | Brisbane |
Ballymore | 24,000 | |||
Queensland Country | Ballymore | 24,000 | ||
Bond University | 5,000 | Gold Coast | ||
Cbus Super Stadium | 27,400 | |||
Mike Carney Toyota Park | 5,000 | Townsville | ||
VIC | Melbourne Rising | AAMI Park | 29,500 | Melbourne |
WA | Perth Spirit | Adelaide Airport Oval | 15,000 | Adelaide |
HBF Arena | 16,000 | Perth | ||
Rockingham RUC | 3,000 | |||
UWA Rugby Club | 4,000 |
Home match venues for the 2015 NRC season:
State | Team | Match Venue | Capacity | City |
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ACT | University of Canberra Vikings | Viking Park | 10,000 | Canberra |
NSW | NSW Country Eagles | Ann Ashwood Park | Bathurst | |
No. 2 Sports Ground | Newcastle | |||
Chillingworth Oval | Tamworth | |||
Woollahra Oval | 5,000 | Sydney | ||
Greater Sydney Rams | Concord Oval | 20,000 | ||
Granville Park | 5,000 | |||
Forshaw Park | 3,000 | |||
Parramatta Stadium | 21,500 | |||
North Harbour Rays | Manly Oval | 5,000 | ||
Pittwater Park | 10,000 | |||
Sydney Stars | Leichhardt Oval | 20,000 | ||
QLD | Brisbane City | Ballymore | 24,000 | Brisbane |
Queensland Country | Bond University | 5,000 | Gold Coast | |
Rugby Park | 5,000 | Rockhampton | ||
Sports Ground | 9,000 | Toowoomba | ||
Stockland Park | 12,000 | Sunshine Coast | ||
VIC | Melbourne Rising | Ashwood Reserve | 3,000 | Melbourne |
Frankston Park | 8,000 | |||
Simonds Stadium | 34,074 | Geelong | ||
Latrobe City Stadium | 12,000 | Morwell | ||
WA | Perth Spirit | UWA Rugby Club | 4,000 | Perth |
Canberra Stadium, commercially known as GIO Stadium Canberra, is a facility primarily used for rugby league and rugby union games, located adjacent to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, the capital of Australia. It is the largest sports venue by capacity in Canberra.
A soccer-specific stadium, mainly in the United States and Canada, is a sports stadium either purpose-built or fundamentally redesigned for soccer and whose primary function is to host soccer matches, as opposed to a multi-purpose stadium which is for a variety of sports. A soccer-specific stadium may host other sporting events and concerts, but the design and purpose of a soccer-specific stadium is primarily for soccer. Some facilities have a permanent stage at one end of the stadium used for staging concerts.
Ellis Park Stadium is a rugby union and association football stadium in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It hosted the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, which was won by the country's national team, the Springboks. The stadium was the country's most modern when it was upgraded in 1982 to accommodate almost 60,000 people. Today, the stadium hosts both football and rugby and is also used as a venue for other large events, such as open-air concerts. It has become synonymous with rugby as the only time when rugby was not played at Ellis Park was during 1980 and 1981, when the stadium was under construction during the upgrade.
Perth Rectangular Stadium is a sports stadium in Perth, the capital of the Australian state of Western Australia. Located close to Perth's central business district, the stadium currently has a maximum capacity of 20,500 people for sporting events and 25,000 people for concerts, with the ground's record attendance of 32,000 people set during an Ed Sheeran concert in 2015. The land on which the stadium was built, known as Loton Park, was made a public reserve in 1904, with the main ground developed several years later.
Leichhardt Oval is a rugby league and soccer stadium in Lilyfield, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently one of three home grounds for the Wests Tigers National Rugby League (NRL) team, along with Campbelltown Stadium and Western Sydney Stadium. Prior to its merger with the Western Suburbs Magpies, it was the longtime home of the Balmain Tigers, who used the ground from 1934–1994 and 1997–1999. It was named after Ludwig Leichhardt.
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.
Olympic Park Stadium was a multi-purpose outdoor stadium located on Olympic Boulevard in inner Melbourne, Australia. The stadium was built as an athletics training venue for the 1956 Olympics, a short distance from the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which served as the Olympic Stadium. Over the years it was the home of rugby league side, Melbourne Storm and the A-League team, Melbourne Victory; throughout its life the stadium played host to athletics. Olympic Park Stadium was located in Olympic Park, which is part of the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct.
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The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, currently known as AAMI Park for sponsorship reasons, is an outdoor sports stadium situated on the grounds of Edwin Flack Field within the Sports and Entertainment Precinct in the heart of the Melbourne central business district.
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The Perth Spirit is a former rugby union team based in Perth, Western Australia, that played in the National Rugby Championship (NRC) from 2014 to 2017, winning the competition in 2016. The team was formed in 2007 to compete in the Australian Rugby Championship (ARC).
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