Perry Park, Brisbane
Perry Park Stadium is a sporting ground located in the Brisbane suburb of Bowen Hills. Perry Park is currently home to the Brisbane Strikers Football Club, which plays in the National Premier Leagues Queensland.
Early history
Scotsman William Raff was granted ownership of the land in 1857. He then subdivided the land in 1875, and the lot where Perry Park is now situated was sold to William Perry, among three other lots. Mr. Perry was a prominent Brisbane ironmonger. He used the land essentially as his family cattle and horse paddock.[1]
In the 1940s it was used as a base for the Z Special Unit of the Australian, British and New Zealand armed forces for their 1943 raid on Japanese occupied Singapore harbour. The ground was the home of Mayne Football Club and Valleys Cricket Club from 1925 to 1942 and 1948 to 1967.
Brisbane City Council acquired the land for soccer grounds in 1967 and converted the oval into two rectangular pitches with the main pitch along Abbotsford Road allocated as the main Perry Park stadium.
In 1977, Perry Park Stadium hosted its first National Soccer League (NSL) game between Brisbane City and Sydney club Marconi Fairfield.
The ground is home to the Brisbane Strikers; however the Strikers did not play all of its home games there during its reign in the National Soccer League (alternating between Lang Park (now Suncorp Stadium), Ballymore and Perry Park). The club now plays all of its home games at Perry Park in the National Premier Leagues Queensland.
References
- ↑ "History: The First Occupants: William Perry (1835-1891)". Queensland Women's Historical Association. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
External links
- Perry Park, Brisbane at Austadiums
Coordinates: 27°26′36″S 153°2′22″E / 27.44333°S 153.03944°E