The BMD Kougari Oval is a sports venue in the
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...
,
Australia
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suburb of
Manly West. Since 1967, it has been the home of the
Wynnum-Manly Seagulls
The Wynnum-Manly Seagulls are an Australian rugby league football club based at Kougari Oval, in Brisbane's bayside suburb of Manly West, Queensland, Manly West, which neighbours the suburb of Wynnum, Queensland, Wynnum. They competed in the Bri ...
, a
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
club playing in the
Queensland Cup
The Queensland Cup, currently known as the Hostplus Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the highest-level regional rugby league football competition in Queensland, Australia. It is run by the Queensland Rugby League (QRL) and is contested by four ...
.
[History of the club, from the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls website](_blank)
The ground has a capacity of about 5,000 spectators, and the current naming-rights sponsor is The
BMD Group
BMD Group is an Australian construction company based in Brisbane, Queensland. In 2016 it was listed at 44 in ''The Australian Financial Review's'' "Top 500 Private Companies", with an estimated annual revenue of 895 million.
The group was found ...
, a Brisbane urban development company.
The ground is occasionally used for trial matches by the
Brisbane Broncos
The Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Football Club Ltd., commonly referred to as the Broncos, is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in April 1987, the Broncos play in Australia's elite com ...
, to which the Seagulls are affiliated, and has been used for youth internationals by the
Australia national schoolboy rugby league team
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by a ...
- one of which resulted in that team's heaviest defeat, an 8-46 loss to the
Junior Kiwis
The Junior Kiwis side represents New Zealand in the sport of rugby league. They are commonly known as the Junior Kiwis, after the native bird of that name.
Since 2010, they are an under-20s side, with players selected from the NRL, Intrust Super ...
in 2005.
The ground was built by the club on land purchased in 1964, and was originally known as Wondall Road ground. The current name was adopted in about 1971, and comes from the
Yugambeh word for seagull.
References
External links
Wynnum-Manly Seagulls website
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Sports venues in Brisbane
Rugby league stadiums in Australia
Rugby union stadiums in Australia
Wynnum Manly Seagulls
1964 establishments in Australia
Sports venues completed in 1964