Brunswick Street Oval

WT Peterson Community Oval
Tenants
Brunswick Street Oval

Former names	Brunswick Street Oval, Fitzroy Cricket Ground
Location	Edinburgh Gardens, Brunswick St, North Fitzroy, Victoria
Coordinates	37°47′20.54″S 144°58′51.26″E / 37.7890389°S 144.9809056°E / -37.7890389; 144.9809056
Owner	Fitzroy Football Club
Capacity	15 000 (approx.)
Surface	Grass
Opened	1883
Closed	1966 (for VFL matches)
Fitzroy Football Club (VFL 1883-1966), Fitzroy (VAFA), Fitzroy Junior Football Club, Edinburgh Cricket Club

The WT Peterson Community Oval, best known as the Brunswick Street Oval and also as the Fitzroy Cricket Ground, is a cricket and Australian rules football ground located in Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North, Victoria. The ground was the home of Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football Association from 1883 to 1897, and the home of the club in the Victorian Football League from 1897 until 1966, with the last game being played there on Saturday 20 August 1966 against St Kilda, a game which the Lions lost by 84 points.^[1] Fitzroy then moved to Princes Park sharing the ground with Carlton Football Club between 1967-69 before playing its home games at the Junction Oval in St Kilda from 1970.

The venue's original tenants, the Fitzroy Cricket Club, left the venue in 1986 when they merged with the Doncaster Cricket Club.^[2] The venue hosted one first-class cricket match, between Victoria and Western Australia in 1925/26.^[3]

The ground was unused for Australian rules football for 27 years, before it began to be used by the University Reds football club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association in 1991. In 1997, the Fitzroy Football Club merged with the Brisbane Bears, and the remaining Victorian members of the club began to be based out of the Brunswick St Oval, eventually merging with the University Reds to form the Fitzroy Reds Football Club, which is now based out of the oval.^[4] The main grandstand is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.^[5]

During the 1975 and 1976 Victorian State League seasons the venue was used by the association football club Heidelberg United (then known as Fitzroy United Alexander),^[6] as well as one fixture in the National Soccer League.^[7] In the 1980s the venue was used intermittently by several lower league soccer clubs up until 1990.^[8] The venue had previously hosted several showpiece soccer matches in the 1910s and 1920s, including Dockerty Cup finals.^[9]

Records

VFL games: 612 between 1897 and 1966, including 609 which Fitzroy played in.
VFL finals games: 4
Highest attendance: 34 765 (Fitzroy vs. Essendon, 11 August 1923)

References

↑ "AFL Tables - Fitzroy v St Kilda - Sat, 20-Aug-1966 2:20 PM - Match Stats". afltables.com.
↑ "FFC: Local Rites, Chapter 1 - Paul Daffey". fitzroyfc.com.au.
↑ "First class matches played on the Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Melbourne (1)". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
↑ "Brunswick Street Oval". fitzroyfc.com.au.
↑ "Fitzroy Cricket Ground Grandstand, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H0751, Heritage Overlay HO215". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
↑ Ian Syson. "Neos Osmos". neososmos.blogspot.com.au.
↑ "02 May 1977 - Canberra City draws after bad errors PHILIPS SOC...". nla.gov.au.
↑ Ian Syson. "Neos Osmos". neososmos.blogspot.com.au.
↑ Ian Syson. "Neos Osmos". neososmos.blogspot.com.au.

Austadiums

Fitzroy Football Club

History Records Players Captains Coaches Honour roll Team of the Century Mitchell Medal Leading goalkickers

Home grounds	Brunswick Street Oval (1897–1966) Princes Park (1967–69; 1987–93) Junction Oval (1970–84) Victoria Park (1985–86) North Hobart Oval (1952; 1991–92) Western Oval (1994–96) Bruce Stadium (1995)

Premierships (8)	1898 1899 1904 1905 1913 1916 1922 1944

Seasons (100)	1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996

Related articles	Brisbane Lions Fitzroy Bulldogs

Fitzroy Football Club merged with the Brisbane Bears in 1996 to form the Brisbane Lions

Australian Football League grounds

Main grounds:	Adelaide Oval Domain Stadium Etihad Stadium The Gabba Melbourne Cricket Ground Metricon Stadium Simonds Stadium Spotless Stadium Sydney Cricket Ground

Secondary grounds:	Blundstone Arena Cazaly's Stadium Eureka Stadium Jiangwan Stadium (China) Manuka Oval TIO Stadium TIO Traeger Park University of Tasmania Stadium

Future grounds:	Perth Stadium

Former grounds:	Albury Oval Arden Street Oval Blacktown ISP Oval Brisbane Exhibition Ground Canberra Stadium Brunswick Street Oval Coburg Oval Corio Oval East Melbourne Cricket Ground Euroa Oval Football Park Glenferrie Oval Junction Oval Lake Oval Moorabbin Oval Motordrome North Hobart Oval Princes Park Punt Road Oval Stadium Australia Toorak Park Victoria Park WACA Ground Waverley Park Wellington Regional Stadium (NZ) Whitten Oval Windy Hill Yarraville Oval

Training grounds:	Alberton Oval Arden Street Oval Carrara Stadium Football Park Fremantle Oval The Gabba Kardinia Park Linen House Centre Melbourne Airport Melbourne Rectangular Stadium Olympic Park Princes Park Punt Road Oval Subiaco Oval Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney Olympic Park Waverley Park Whitten Oval

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