The long-awaited redevelopment of the Sydney Football Stadium in the Moore Park area of the city is nearing final completion, and now has a scheduled opening date of 2 September with some major showpiece events planned to formally mark the opening.
It is a development that has been four years in the making with plans first laid out in October 2018 to replace the original Sydney Football Stadium via an AU$828m demolition and rebuild project on the same Moore Park site – and it was not without hurdles.
The New South Wales government has overseen a change in construction company part-way through demolition, opposition from local campaign groups during a key state election period and a court-ordered delay. But the end is in sight and the excitement that the development will bring to revitalising the local area is high.
Sporting venue to rival no other A wide array of sporting events are now scheduled to mark the opening of the new stadium, with NRL, Wallabies and Matildas games all lined up for September providing a festival of sport for players and fans to look forward to.
Certainly, the bookmakers have been anticipating what type of events they can add to their usual list of sports leagues for fans to bet on and they will be keen to see the impact that the new stadium has on teams and players when it comes to pricing up odds across all Australian sports to take place there. There are lots of Australian sports leagues that fans can place bets on and interested bettors can use websites such as puntersport.com to find reviews and comparison guides on the most suitable betting providers and the best odds available.
A huge NRL derby between two of the city’s top sporting teams, the Sydney Roosters and South Sydney kicks things off on Friday, 2 September, before the Wallabies rugby team take on world champions South Africa the following day. Then it’s the turn of women’s soccer when the Matildas host Olympic champions Canada on Tuesday, 6 September. So there is plenty for the tipsters and bettors to get their teeth into.
Modern setting to revitalise the area The modern structure will act as the home stadium for the Roosters, the NSW Waratahs and Sydney FC and is also due to host the major Women’s World Cup in 2023, as well as the football tournament of the 2032 Olympic Games. The next decade features a number of major international events that the nation’s powers-that-be will be keen to use as a platform to develop socio-economical benefits to the country, as Australian sport correspondent Kieran Pender writes in theguardian.com.
More locally, Sydney’s city government recognises the importance of incorporating such a big solo project for the most modern sports stadium in all of Australia alongside the much-needed wider urban regeneration of nearby Waterloo, Redfern and Surry Hills. Certainly in the case of these surburbs, modernisation and gentrification has either already begun or is well on the road in terms of planning.
As part of the method of showing their commitment to these nearby suburbs, there will be a free-to-attend ‘community open day’ for the stadium planned for 28 August, prior to the sport commencing.
Project Details – 42,500 seats installed (all undercover) – 40,000 cubic metres of concrete poured (equivalent to 16 Olympic swimming pools) – 90,000 square metres of concrete slab poured (the size of about 11 football fields) – Almost 1500 piles drilled into the ground to support the structure – Approximately 25km of electrical cable laid – 10,500 square metres of ‘ready to play’ turf laid – 4000 pieces of steel in the roof, lifted into place by six tower cranes and three crawler cranes – 32,804 bolts used on the roof structure – 325 precast concrete panels surround the stadium at the base, totalling 773.5m in length and 1560t in weight – 980 curtain wall bronze-coloured panels that surround the external façade (if placed end to end, the panels would reach longer than 1.7km).
You can find out all the latest on this particular development by visiting the local government’s infrastructure.nsw.gov.au site.
We encourage you to like the Your Neighbourhood Facebook page, to be updated on other projects or developments.
Source: Information, Drawings and Images All article information is sourced and available for review from referenced locations. – Information and images NSW Government – Interactive Image: Google Aerial and Streetview
Subscribe to our weekly newsletter
News articles are presented in an unbiased manner from information publicly accessible that include referenced links for the reader to obtain any further information. The facts of the proposed government projects, media releases, school upgrades and development applications are based on the available information at the time of the published date, with information sourced directly from company websites, media releases and development application material. We reference all our information at the end of the articles and promote the creators with website back links.
Providing localised news on the happenings in your Brisbane suburb, covering community events, school upgrades, art, government projects and development
Contact us: mail@yourneighbourhood.com.au
Your Neighbourhood © 2022 . All Rights Reserved.