- Albury Sports Ground
Albury Sports Ground is a sporting venue that is primarily used for
Australian Rules football andcricket , and is located in centralAlbury, New South Wales ,Australia , not far from the city's central business district. It makes up part of a string of parks and gardens between theMurray River and Wodonga Place, being adjacent to theAlbury Botanic Gardens , and the clubhouse is prominent to visitors arriving in town from Victoria via the formerHume Highway . It is the home ground of theAlbury Football Club which plays in theOvens and Murray Football League (O&MFL). It should not be confused withLavington Sports Ground which is located further north within Albury in the suburb of Hamilton Valley.Whilst its role as Albury's main sporting venue been passed on since the establishment of the Lavington Sports Ground in the 1970s, it has in the past hosted the O&MFL grand final (including the notorious 1990 "Bloodbath" decider), a round of the VFL between South Melbourne and North Melbourne in 1952, and representative Australian Rules football and cricket matches. It also hosted cultural events such as rock concerts and carols by candlelight, as well as hosting a stage of the Royal Tour by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988 during Australia's bicentenary of colonisation, where thousands of schoolchildren were assembled on the oval to greet the Queen.
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