Junction Oval

Capacity: 10,000

The Junction Oval (also known the St. Kilda Cricket Club Ground) is a sports ground in Melbourne, Australia. The ground is located at St Kilda Junction, between Queens Road and Fitzroy Street.

The scoreboard (built 1954-55) is a landmark of the St Kilda Junction area. There are 2 main heritage grandstands, the Blackie-Ironmonger stand (recently restored and in use), and the Kevin-Murray grandstand (not in use) and a club house. Older structures were demolished in the 1980s during a rationalisation of the ground.

Australian Rules

The ground was originally built for Australian rules, and was the original home ground of the St Kilda Football Club.

It has been used as a VFL/AFL home ground for St Kilda (1897-1964), South Melbourne Football Club (1944-1946) and Fitzroy Football Club (1970-1984).

A total of 734 VFL/AFL matches were played there, the highest score being Fitzroy’s 34 goals, 16 behinds (220) against North Melbourne in 1983.

Current Use

In recent years, the Melbourne Football Club have used it as a training ground.

It is used regularly by the Victorian Amateur Football Association’s Old Melburnians Football Club.

The ground is used for the annual Community Cup Australian rules event.

Cricket

In recent years, the Junction Oval has also been used by the Victorian Bushrangers first class cricket team representing the state of Victoria. Most of Victoria’s Pura Cup and ING Cup matches are now played at the Junction Oval (and not at the Melbourne Cricket Ground).

Commonwealth Games

The ground hosted events for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.

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