Lark Hill Sports Complex is a multi-purpose sporting and recreation reserve at Lark Hill in

Port Kennedy, Western Australia Port Kennedy is an outer southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located within the City of Rockingham. Port Kennedy is built on Becher Point and because of its geomorphological history it is home to an unusual wetland ...

. It is located on 270 hectares of land approximately 60 km south of

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, and is owned by the

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. Stage one of the development costing $24 million was officially opened in 2008.

Facilities

Lark Hill currently provides sporting facilities for

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

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 ...

, touch football,

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

and

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

. There is also a synthetic

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

pitch. The complex has lighting suitable for hosting night time events on all sporting fields, multiple changing room facilities, and grandstands for spectator sports events. It was one of the home grounds for the

Perth Spirit Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is p ...

team in the

National Rugby Championship The National Rugby Championship, known as NRC, was an Australian rugby union competition. It was contested by eight teams, seven from Australia and one from Fiji. The tournament ran from 2014 until 2019 before being disbanded in 2020 following t ...

in 2014. The second development stage of Lark Hill, to expand the Australian rules football facilities, was dropped from the Rockingham City 10-year business plan.

Tenants

Sports groups with tenancies at the complex as of 2019 include: * Cricket: Rockingham-Mandurah Mariners District Cricket Club * Hockey: Rockingham Redbacks District Hockey Club * Rugby league: Rockingham Coastal Sharks Rugby League Football Club * Rugby union: Rockingham Rugby Union Football Club * Soccer: Rockingham City Football Club * Softball: Rockingham and Districts Softball Association

References

External links

Satellite Image of Lark Hill Sports Complex
{{NRC Grounds Port Kennedy, Western Australia Rugby league stadiums in Australia Rugby union stadiums in Australia Cricket grounds in Australia Soccer venues in Perth, Western Australia Softball venues in Australia 2008 establishments in Australia Sports venues completed in 2008 Field hockey venues in Australia