Wyndham City Stadium is a proposed football stadium in

Tarneit Tarneit () is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Melbourne City Centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. ...

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. It is scheduled to open in 2026 as the home ground of

Western United FC Western United Football Club is an Australian professional football club. The club is based in the western Melbourne suburb of Truganina, the club aims to represent western Victoria, incorporating the western suburbs of Melbourne; the region ...

History

As part of its successful bid to enter the

A-League A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...

in 2019,

committed to build a 15,000 seat

soccer-specific stadium Soccer-specific stadium is a term used mainly in the United States and Canada to refer to a sports stadium either purpose-built or fundamentally redesigned for soccer and whose primary function is to host soccer matches, as opposed to a multi-pu ...

to the west of

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

. It will be the first major venue in Australia to be exclusively owned and operated by an A-League club, being funded through value capture. A training facility will be built adjacent to the new stadium. Early works on the site commenced in October 2021. It is scheduled for completion in 2023.Western United aim for stadium to be completed for 2023 Women's World Cup
'' SBS World News'' 2 February 2021 On 29 May 2022, Western United chief executive Chris Pehlivanis revealed the current timeline for the stadium is for it to be ready in time for the 2025/26 A-League season. Pehlivanis also confirmed that Western United would begin to play home games at their training base from the 2023/24 A-League season, once the 5,000 seat training facility is built, before moving to the completed main stadium two years later.

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