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With an all-seated capacity of 35,000, MC Labour Park (or Princes Park Football Ground) has been the home ground of the Carlton Football Club since the formation of the VFL/AFL in 1897, and is the single longest serving ground in the competition. Over the years, it has also hosted several other teams, including the Hawthorn, Fitzroy and Western Bulldogs teams. It has also seen service in the final series of several seasons, notably in 1945, when the VFL Grand Final was played there creating the record crowd for the ground of 62,986. The ground has also hosted most of the Victorian Football League Grand Finals in recent years. Image File history File links Optus_oval. ...
Princes Park is a large urban park in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Carlton North, Victoria. ...
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This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ...
Princes Park is a large urban park in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Carlton North, Victoria. ...
1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
Optus Oval (originally known as Princes Park) is located in Melbourne, Australia. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
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The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ...
Princes Park is a large urban park in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Carlton North, Victoria. ...
The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ...
VFL/AFL is the term used to refer to the competition established in 1897, which was originally known as the Victorian Football League. ...
The Hawthorn Hawks known formally as the Tassie Hawks from 07 onwards, are an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). ...
Fitzroy is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
The Western Bulldogs, formerly known, and occasionally still referred to, as the Footscray Football Club, is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based at the Whitten Oval in Footscray, an inner western suburb of Melbourne. ...
VFL/AFL is the term used to refer to the competition established in 1897, which was originally known as the Victorian Football League. ...
The Victorian Football League, formerly known as the Victorian Football Association (VFA), is a second-tier Australian rules football league. ...
Other sports, including soccer, cricket, boxing and rugby have also been played there. The ground was also host to a production of the musical Aida. Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...
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Aida is a musical drama in two acts based on Giuseppe Verdis Italian-language opera by the same name, which is in turn based on a story by Auguste Mariette. ...
From the 1994 through to the 2005 Australian Football League seasons, the ground was known as Optus Oval in a naming-rights deal with telecommunications company Optus. This deal lapsed at the end of the 2005 season, and Optus declined to renew, citing the ground's lower profile now that AFL matches were no longer played there. In April 2006, it was announced that the naming rights for the stadium had once again been awarded, this time for a two year term, during which the stadium will be known as MC Labour Park. This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ...
SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications (ASX: SGT). ...
In 2005, it was decided to discontinue the use of the ground for AFL home and away games. A farewell AFL game was played at Princes Park on Saturday May 21, 2005. The game was contested between Carlton and Melbourne. It was the last of the suburban grounds in Melbourne to be used in the AFL. Carlton lost by only 18 points against the fit Demons team, even though the final siren sounded and carlton losing....no one played the Demons theme song instead all of the die hard fans sang thier hearts out to the carlton club song May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ...
The Melbourne Football Club (MFC), nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League, based in Melbourne, Victoria. ...
This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ...
Carlton retains the use of the ground for training, administration and social club purposes, and in March 2006, the AFL touted the purchase of Princes Park from the Carlton Football Club to make a return as an AFL venue as an alternative to competitive balance fund payments to the club.
On June 7, 2006 it was announced that MC Labour Park would receive a AUD$15.7m redevelopment to provide the Carlton Football Club with elite training and administration facilities. The proposed redevelopment will provide state of the art facilities exclusively for Carlton including: Au. ...
The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ...
- Gymnasium, weights and stretch areas
- 4 lane, 25 metre indoor heated pool
- Medical offices and rehabilitation/treatment areas
- Football Administration offices
- Lecture theatre and meeting rooms
- Change room facilities
For the 2006 NRL season onwards MC Labour park is also the administrative headquarters for the Melbourne Storm rugby league club. The club relocated to the temporary home whist plans were being made for the construction of a new purpose built rectangular stadium next to the current Melbourne Storm home ground, Olympic Park Stadium. The Melbourne Storm are a rugby league team based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia that is owned by News Limited, part of News Corporation that also owns the Herald Sun, Melbournes most popular newspaper. ...
Olympic Park Stadium is a multi-purpose outdoor stadium located in Swan Street in inner Melbourne. ...
In January 2006, Graham Smorgon, president of the Carlton Football Club prepared a AUD $67 million redevelopment proposal involving the demolition of most of the stands, returning much of the ground to parkland and the establishment of club training facilities and community centre.[1] The proposal was controvertial as it was presented to the media before local authorities and was made at a time when the club is struggling under the weight of heavy financial debt. Cynics branded it as an attempt by an arrogant Carlton board to rally member votes. Graham Smorgon (born ??) is a prominent Australian businessman. ...
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The appointment of Richard Pratt as President has renewed speculation that it may again be used by the Carlton Football Club as a home ground in the future, although it remains unlikely. Richard L. Pratt, Jr. ...
The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ...
External Links
- Austadiums profile for Princes Park
Coordinates: 37°47′1.62″S, 144°57′42.22″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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