Kardinia Park (stadium)

Common card · No. 443741

Kardinia Park (known under naming rights as GMHBA Stadium, and commonly nicknamed the Cattery) is a stadium located within Kardinia Park in the Victorian suburb of South Geelong. It is primarily used for Australian rules football as the home ground of the Geelong Football Club, in the Australian Football League (AFL) and the AFL Women's (AFLW). The stadium was built in 1941 and is owned and operated by the Kardinia Park Stadium Trust. With a capacity of 40,000 spectators it is the largest stadium by capacity in regional Australia and the third-largest in Victoria (behind the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Docklands Stadium). Locally based private health insurer GMHBA have held naming rights sponsorship to the stadium since 2017. In addition to Geelong in the AFL, the venue has regularly hosted the Geelong Football Netball League (GFNL) grand final. It has also been used for cricket as a secondary home ground for the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League (BBL).

Read on Wikipedia · Image Storm machine, CC0