Erskineville Oval, Sydney
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Erskineville Oval is a rugby league
ground in the Sydney
suburb of Erskineville, New South Wales
, Australia
.
The ground features a small old grandstand of approximately 1-2000 capacity, with an encircling grassy hill. There are bricked up ticket windows and rundown, closed public toilets. There are night-lights that provide adequate lighting for training purposes only. The ground was enclosed up until 2004, when it was opened to the public as the City of Sydney
took over control from the now defunct City of South Sydney
. The ground hosted the Newtown Jets
home games in the Sydney Rugby League premiership until 1954.
The ground is currently a home ground for Souths Juniors, and is the training venue for the South Sydney Rabbitohs
until the upgrade of Redfern Oval
is complete in 2009. There are current plans to make some minor impovements to the ground (fixing the lighting, painting the stadium seats etc.).
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
ground in the Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
suburb of Erskineville, New South Wales
Erskineville, New South Wales
Erskineville is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Erskineville is located about 3 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
The ground features a small old grandstand of approximately 1-2000 capacity, with an encircling grassy hill. There are bricked up ticket windows and rundown, closed public toilets. There are night-lights that provide adequate lighting for training purposes only. The ground was enclosed up until 2004, when it was opened to the public as the City of Sydney
City of Sydney
The City of Sydney is the Local Government Area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia...
took over control from the now defunct City of South Sydney
City of South Sydney
The South Sydney City Council was a former local government area covering the inner-eastern and inner-southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia. It was forcibly merged with the Sydney City Council by the New South Wales State Government in 2004. The council chambers were located in the Erskineville...
. The ground hosted the Newtown Jets
Newtown Jets
The Newtown Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west. They currently compete in the NSWRL Premier League competition, having left the top grade after the 1983 NSWRFL season...
home games in the Sydney Rugby League premiership until 1954.
The ground is currently a home ground for Souths Juniors, and is the training venue for the South Sydney Rabbitohs
South Sydney Rabbitohs
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...
until the upgrade of Redfern Oval
Redfern Oval
Redfern Oval is a football ground located in Sydney suburb of Redfern, New South Wales. The South Sydney Rabbitohs Rugby League Football Club played at Redfern Oval between 1948 and 1987...
is complete in 2009. There are current plans to make some minor impovements to the ground (fixing the lighting, painting the stadium seats etc.).