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| Former names | Beach Oval, Hampton Oval, Sandringham Cricket Ground |
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| Location | Beach Rd, Sandringham, Victoria |
| Coordinates | 37°56′42″S145°0′1″E / 37.94500°S 145.00028°E Coordinates: 37°56′42″S145°0′1″E / 37.94500°S 145.00028°E |
| Owner | City of Bayside |
| Capacity | 10,000 (1000 seated) [1] |
| Field size | 160m × 120m |
| Surface | Grass |
| Opened | 1929 |
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| Sandringham Football Club (VFL) | |
The Trevor Barker Oval, formerly known as the Beach Oval or Hampton Oval is an Australian rules football ground in Beach Road, on the border between Hampton and Sandringham, Victoria. It was named after Sandringham Football Club coach Trevor Barker, who died of cancer in 1996 at the age of 39, after coaching the club to the 1992 and 1994 premierships.
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between behind posts.
Hampton is an affluent suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 kilometres (9 mi) south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Bayside. At the 2011 Census, Hampton had a population of 12,482.
Sandringham is an affluent, beachside suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located 19 km (12 mi) southeast of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Bayside and its federal division is the Division of Goldstein. At the 2011 Census, Sandringham had a population of 9,309.
In the late 1920s, the Sandringham council had been seeking to establish a senior football club in the district to join the Victorian Football Association, and providing a fenced venue to which admission could be charged was a requirement of the Association. After a previous unsuccessful application, [2] the council received permission from the State Government to fence the existing playing oval in February 1929; the Sandringham Football Club entered the VFA the same season. [3]
The Sandringham Football Club, nicknamed The Zebras, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne which was formed in 1929 and plays in the Victorian Football League (VFL) which was formerly called the Victorian Football Association (VFA).
The oval has a single grandstand (the Neil Bencraft Grandstand), a southern end named after record breaking goal kicker Nick Sautner (the Sautner Goal), and an administration centre (the John Mennie Administration Centre) [4] – a social club and a capacity for 10,000. A record crowd of 18,000 attended the venue's first Sunday VFA premiership game, held between Sandringham and Port Melbourne Football Club in April 1964. [5] A Rec Footy competition is also played at the ground.
A grandstand is a large and normally permanent structure for seating spectators, most often at a racetrack. This includes both auto racing and horse racing. The grandstand is in essence like a single section of a stadium, but differs from a stadium in that it does not wrap all or most of the way around. Grandstands may have basic bench seating, but usually have individual chairs like a stadium. Grandstands are also usually covered with a roof, but are open on the front. They are often multi-tiered.
Neil C. Bencraft was an Australian rules football player and coach with the Sandringham Football Club in the Victorian Football Association.
Nicholas 'Nick' Sautner is an Australian rules footballer, best known for his Victorian Football League (VFL) football career with the Sandringham Zebras. He has also spent time at Preston in 2003, and Frankston in 2001 and 2002.
