Carisbrook
Sign in to saveCarisbrook (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Carisbrook Stadium) was a major sporting venue in Dunedin, New Zealand. The city's main domestic and international rugby union venue, it was also used for other sports such as cricket, football, rugby league and motocross. In 1922, Carisbrook hosted the first international football match between Australia and New Zealand. The hosts won 3–1.
Key facts
- Venue.name
- Carisbrook
- Venue.nickname
- The House of Pain
- Venue.image
- 300px|Looking north across Caversham, New Zealand|Caversham to Carisbrook, from the slopes of Forbury Hill
- Venue.location
- Dunedin, New Zealand
- Venue.broke_ground
- 1881
- Venue.opened
- 1883
- Venue.closed
- 2011
- Venue.demolished
- Starting 2013
- Venue.owner
- Carisbrook Ground Company
- Venue.operator
- Carisbrook Ground Company
- Venue.surface
- Grass
- Venue.tenants
- Otago Rugby Football UnionHighlanders (Super 14) (1996–2011)
- Venue.seating_capacity
- 29,000
- Cricket ground.embed
- yes
- Cricket ground.end1
- Railway End
- Cricket ground.end2
- Hillside End
- Cricket ground.international
- true
- Cricket ground.firsttestdate
- 11–16 March
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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- Retirement and recycling
- Historic events
- See also
- References
- External links
Carisbrook (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Carisbrook Stadium) was a major sporting venue in Dunedin, New Zealand. The city's main domestic and international rugby union venue, it was also used for other sports such as cricket, football, rugby league and motocross. In 1922, Carisbrook hosted the first international football match between Australia and New Zealand. The hosts won 3–1.
Carisbrook also hosted a Joe Cocker concert and frequently hosted pre-game concerts before rugby matches in the 1990s. In 2011 Carisbrook was closed, and was replaced as a rugby ground by Forsyth Barr Stadium in North Dunedin, and as a cricket ground by University Oval in Logan Park.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carisbrook” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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