The Trevor Barker Oval is an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 ground in Beach Road, Sandringham, Victoria

Sandringham, Victoria

Sandringham is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Sandringham had a population of 8693.-History:...

 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...

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It was named after the St Kilda Football Club champion Trevor Barker

Trevor Barker

Trevor Barker was an Australian rules footballer with the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League ....

, who died of cancer

Cancer

Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

 in 1996 at the age of 39. Barker coached Sandringham to the 1992 and 1994 premierships against Williamstown and Box Hill respectively.

The oval has a single grandstand

Grandstand

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...

, a social club and a capacity for 10,000. It is home to the Sandringham Football Club, who play in the Victorian Football League

Victorian Football League

The Victorian Football League which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association , taking its new name as from the 1996 season, is the premier Australian rules football league in Victoria The Victorian Football League (VFL) which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association...

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A record crowd of 13,988 attended a game between Sandringham v Port Melbourne Football Club

Port Melbourne Football Club

The Port Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Borough, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Port Melbourne and is currently playing in the Victorian Football League ....

 in 1975.

A Rec Footy

Rec Footy

Recreational Football is a non-contact version of the Australian rules football game sanctioned by the Australian Football League...

competition is also played at the ground.