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Campbelltown Stadium, formerly Orana Park and Campbelltown Sports Ground, is a multi-use stadium in Leumeah, New South Wales, Australia, owned by Campbelltown City Council. It is the full-time home ground for the Western Suburbs Magpies District Rugby League Football Club and is one of three home grounds for the Wests Tigers Rugby League Football Club. The stadium has a nominal capacity of 20,000, with a recorded highest crowd figure of 20,527 for a game between Wests Tigers and North Queensland Cowboys in NRL season 2005. It is located adjacent to Leumeah railway station and Wests Leagues Club. ==History== The area which Campbelltown Stadium occupies, was developed in the early 1960s by the then Campbelltown 'Shire' Council, as a rudimentary sporting field, in the very much rural and undeveloped Leumeah area. Council named the new ground, 'Orana Park'. The Campbelltown City Kangaroos, playing in the Group 6 Rugby League competition, were the first major tenants of the ground, having been moved from their original home ground on Queen St, Campbelltown. Orana Park would soon become the premier venue of the local Group 6 senior competition, hosting all Grand Finals from 1974-1983 and representative fixtures, including a famous clash in 1975 between Group 6 and France, won 2-nil by the locals. A boundary change for the 1984 season, saw Orana Park become a part of the new Newtown- Campbelltown Junior League. The Kangaroos remained as co-tenants of the Orana Park facility until 1997, when the No.2 field was developed into the region's top athletics facility, in time for the 2000 Olympic Games. The Stadium- Orana Park- had a functional purpose in the lives of most young Campbelltownians, also doubling as the local athletics track for school carnivals. Orana Park first played host to top level Rugby League in the 1983 NSWRFL season, when the moribund Newtown Jets played half of their home games at Orana Park (with a view to a permanent move for the 1984 season). A bumper crowd of 10,686 turned out for the Round 1 clash, to see reigning 1982 premiers, the Parramatta Eels decimate the Jets 54-14. Bluebags officials, led by John Singleton and partnered by pre-eminent local solicitor John Marsden, were determined to move the ailing Club full-time to Campbelltown to claim the burgeoning junior league in the Campbelltown LGA, and to expand their thin supporter base. However, before the deal could be made, Newtown were excluded from the 1984 season for financial reasons. Orana Park/ Campbelltown Stadium would be the site of the Newtown club's last top-level Rugby League competition match, a 9-6 victory over the Canberra Raiders on Saturday August 27, 1983. The club continued efforts to be re-instated for the 1985 season, fully based in Campbelltown. Based upon Newtown's dire financial position, the Campbelltown side of the merger withdrew its support for entry into the NSWRL Premiership of 1985, consigning the Jets to premiership oblivion. The Jets would be successfully resurrected in the NSWRL Metropolitan Cup (Second tier competition) in 1991. For 1985-86, there was no top-level rugby league tenant at the Stadium. One NSWRL game a year was played at the stadium by Parramatta and Eastern Suburbs respectively. South-western Sydney was still considered neutral, but 'ripe' territory for all of the inner-Sydney based clubs. Ironically, it was the struggling Western Suburbs Magpies in 1987 who made the move from their inner western base of Lidcombe. 'The Pies' had been the opponents of the Eastern Suburbs club in that solitary game at Orana Park in 1986. Led by astute CEO Rick Wayde, the Magpies rapidly moved to secure a more assured future for the Club, based in this rapidly expanding population centre. The Magpies had also been threatened with expulsion from the 1984 premiership, along similar lines as those of Newtown. Wests also assumed control of the bankrupt Leagues Club that sat next to the venue; rebranding it as 'Wests Leagues Campbelltown'. This time, Campbelltown Rugby League powerbroker John Marsden assented to the Magpies taking control of the now vast Campbelltown- Liverpool Junior League. The NSWRL rubber stamped that Orana Park- Campbelltown Stadium would become a 1st Grade Rugby League venue. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Campbelltown Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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