KGV Oval
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 KGV Oval
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| Location | Glenorchy, Tasmania |
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| Coordinates | 42°49′53″S 147°16′37″E / 42.83139°S 147.27694°ECoordinates: 42°49′53″S 147°16′37″E / 42.83139°S 147.27694°E |
| Owner | Glenorchy City Council |
| Operator | Glenorchy City Council |
| Capacity | 18,000 |
| Opened | 1950 |
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Glenorchy Football Club – Tasmanian State League, Southern Football league, Southern Tasmanian Junior Football League Glenorchy Cricket Club – TCA Southern Football League (HQ) |
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KGV Oval is the home headquarters of the Glenorchy football and cricket clubs, as well as the Southern Football League.
The ground is a former TFL and now Tasmanian State League and also a Southern Football League finals venue.
It is located in the heart of Glenorchy less than 1 kilometre from the Glenorchy CBD, and 7 kilometres from Hobart City. It is also the third largest capacity venue in Tasmanian football after North Hobart Oval (18,000), and Aurora Stadium (20,000).
KGV Oval is not to be confused with KGV Park, an adjoining association football (soccer) ground, which serves as the home of soccer in Tasmania and the base of Football Federation Tasmania.
KGV Oval was opened in 1950 by the then Glenorchy Council (Glenorchy gained City status in 1964) to provide a professional standard Australian Rules venue for the Glenorchy District and was originally home to the former Glenorchy Rovers Football Club which had relocated from the nearby Eady Street Ground.
After a merger between Rovers and TFL club New Town after the 1956 season, the club was known as the Glenorchy Football Club and it relocated to KGV from 1957 onwards.
It was named in remembrance of King George V. He was a popular monarch in Australia, which he visited before inheriting the throne, and there are several locations in Glenorchy named after him.
KGV Oval was redeveloped in 1982 when there was a considerable push from both the TANFL and the Glenorchy City Council to make KGV the home of TANFL football away from a decaying North Hobart Oval but the plan failed to materialise and was later shelved by the late 1980s.
Large gravel mounds were installed around the Elwick Road side of the ground to eventually be covered in grass as a bank for spectators and some terracing was installed at the KGV Avenue end (next to the Cresswell-Beakley Stand) with seating and a new scoreboard built on that side.
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