York Park

York Park is the major Australian rules football ground located in Inveresk, an inner city suburb of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. In September 2004, Aurora Energy secured the naming rights to the stadium for the next six years. The precinct around the stadium will still be called York Park, but the stadium itself will be referred to as Aurora Stadium until 2010.

It was recently re-developed and has a capacity of around 23,000.

It was originally the home of the North Launceston Football Club. In 2000 it was re-developed as part of the bid to get Australian Football League games to Tasmania. The upgrades include additional seating and grandstands, as well as lights for night games.

Australian rules football

Aurora Stadium, formerly York Park, is the major Australian Rules Football ground located in Launceston, Tasmania. The ground has been redeveloped a number of times with the first major revamp in 2000 to bring it up to AFL standards. This included the EE Gunns Stand – a two level grandstand also with corporate facilties, as well as TV standard lighting.

Since 2002 it has been successful in hosting some AFL games each season – in the most recent (2006) season, Hawthorn played a pre-season NAB Cup quarterfinal and three home games at Aurora, and St Kilda played two home games at the venue. The ground hosts Tasmanian Devils Football Club home games in the Victorian Football League.

The record crowd at the ground is 20,961 at a Hawthorn vs Richmond match on June 18, 2006.
The ground also hosts local Northern Tasmanian Football League matches.

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