Brunswick Street Oval
The Brunswick Street Oval, currently known as WT Peterson Community Oval, also known 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 VFA from 1883-97, and the home of the club in the VFL 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 began playing their home games at Princes Park. The ground was unused for 27 years before it began to be used by the University Reds football club in 1991. After the Brisbane Bears/Fitzroy merger, 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.[2] The main grandstand is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.[3]
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)
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Fitzroy Football Club merged with the Brisbane Bears in 1996 to form the Brisbane Lions
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