The Yarraville 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...

 and Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 ground located on the corner of Williamstown Road and Anderson Street in Yarraville, Victoria

Yarraville, Victoria

Yarraville is a suburb 6 km west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Maribyrnong. At the 2006 Census, Yarraville had a population of 12,726....

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It is currently the home ground of the Yarraville/Seddon Eagles Football Club

Yarraville Football Club

Yarraville Football Club was an Australian rules football club founded in 1903 and played in the VJFA until 1927. In 1928, the club joined the VFA where it played until 1984 when the club went into recess. In 1996, the Kingsville Football Club in the FDFL who by this time had taken over the...

 and the Yarraville Cricket Club, and in 1942 it was the home of the Footscray Football Club because the Western Oval was being used as an army base. The Western Region Football League

Western Region Football League

The Western Region Football League is an Australian rules football semi-professional league, based in the western suburbs of Melbourne, for both seniors and juniors.-History:The league was formed in 1931, as the Footscray District Football League...

 also had its head office at the Oval until 2010.

The ground record crowd was set on 25 July 1942

1942 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1942.-Influence of World War II:World War II had many negative effects on AFL in Australia:*Geelong were unable to compete in the competition because of wartime travel restrictions...

 when 15,000 fans turned out to see Footscray defeat eventual grand finalist

1942 VFL Grand Final

The 1942 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Princes Park in Melbourne on 19 September 1942. It was the 46th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers...

 Richmond by seven points in a high scoring game.

Tenants

Club	Years	Sport
Yarraville F.C	1903-1984	Football
Yarraville C.C.	1903-Present	Cricket
Yarraville Boys Club	19??-2006	Football
Footscray F.C.	1942	Football
Kingsville F.C.	1990-1995	Football
Yarraville F.C.	1996-2006	Football
Yarraville/Seddon Eagles	2007-present	Football
W.R.F.L. (Offices and League Finals)	1990-2010	Football

Grandstand

One of the most noticeable features of the Yarraville Oval is the Historic W Pedley Stand. The 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...

was actually built in two sections and has a unique V shape.