The BMD Kougari Oval is a sports venue in the

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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

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club playing in the

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.History of the club, from the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls website
The ground has a capacity of about 5,000 spectators, and the current naming-rights sponsor is The

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, a Brisbane urban development company. The ground is occasionally used for trial matches by the

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, to which the Seagulls are affiliated, and has been used for youth internationals by the

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- one of which resulted in that team's heaviest defeat, an 8-46 loss to the

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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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