Phillip Oval, known for sponsorship reasons as EPC Solar Park, is a sporting venue in

Canberra Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...

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. It is located in

Phillip Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularize ...

, in the district of

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. The ground is used for

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

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 ...

. The ground was upgraded in 2018, with a renovated pavilion, changing rooms, and the addition of floodlights and an electronic scoreboard.

Usage

Australian rules football

Phillip Oval is viewed as the second tier ground for AFL in

, after

Manuka Oval Manuka Oval is a sporting venue in Canberra, the capital of Australia. It is located in Griffith, in the area of that suburb known as Manuka. Manuka Oval has a seating capacity of 13,550 people and an overall capacity of 16,000 people, although ...

Canberra Football Club The Canberra Demons (formerly known as the Eastlake Football Club) is a semi-professional Australian rules football club based in the inner-south of Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory. The senior team competed in the North East Austral ...

train and play home matches at the ground, and have increasingly moved to playing at Phillip Oval since its redevelopment in 2018.

Cricket

The ground is the secondary ground of

ACT Meteors The Australian Capital Territory Women cricket team, also known as the Abode Hotels ACT Meteors, is the women's representative cricket team for the Australian Capital Territory. They play most of their home games at Manuka Oval, Canberra and the ...

, after

. They played their first match at the ground in January 2020, against

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as a warm-up for the touring side's upcoming

tri-series The Rugby League Tri-Nations (known as the Gillette Tri-Nations for sponsorship reasons) was a rugby league tournament involving the top three teams in the sport: Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand and is the predecessor of today's Rugby L ...

. Later that season, the side used it for its first

Women's National Cricket League The Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) is the national domestic 50-over competition for women's cricket in Australia. Featuring seven teams—one from every state, plus the Australian Capital Territory—each season's winner is awarded the ...

games, playing two matches in February 2020. The ground was the Meteors' sole home ground in the

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and 2021–22 seasons. The ground was also used for all six matches on England A's tour of Australia in 2021–22.

References

External links

Phillip Oval
on Cricinfo

on CricketArchive {{DEFAULTSORT:Phillip Oval Australian Football League grounds Sports venues in Canberra Cricket grounds in Australia ACT Meteors