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Junction Oval
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| Location | St Kilda, Victoria |
| Opened | 1852 |
| Owner | Parks Victoria |
| Operator | Parks Victoria |
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The Junction Oval (also known the St. Kilda Cricket Club Ground) is a historic sports ground in Melbourne, Australia.
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The ground is located at St Kilda Junction, between Queens Road and Fitzroy Street.
The current capacity is around 8,000.
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.
The ground was originally built for Australian rules, and was the original home ground of the St Kilda Football Club for many years.
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.
The ground also hosted the VFL/AFL Grand Final in the years of 1898, 1899 and 1944.
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.
The Junction Oval is home to the St Kilda Cricket Club, which plays in the Victorian Premier Cricket competition. The oval has also been used as an alternative home by the Victorian Bushrangers first class cricket team, most recently during the 2005-06 season when the Melbourne Cricket Ground was being prepared for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Cricket great Shane Warne has had a long association with the Junction Oval, not only making his first class debut at the ground for Victoria in 1991, but also playing there on numerous occasions between 1989 and 2006 for his club side, St Kilda. Due to these connections, the club has now started proceedings to rename the venue to the Shane Warne Oval.[1]
- Summary record of all VFL matches at Junction Oval.
- History of Fitzroy Football Club, home grounds etc.
- St Kilda Football Club's reason for moving from Junction Oval.
- Junction Oval at Austadiums
- Sacred Heart Mission Community Cup
- The scoreboard, Junction Oval
- Maps and aerial photos
- WikiSatellite view at WikiMapia
- Street map from Google Maps or Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps