The Olympic Park Stadium is an open stage located at Melbourne in Australia, devoted to the practice of the Rugby, Football and Athlétisme. Inaugurated in 1986, it can accommodate 18.500 spectators (11 000 sitted places). It is the ground of the Melbourne Storm (National Rugby League or NRL, Rugby with XIII) and of the Melbourne Rebels (Rugby with XV).

It was inaugurated in 1956 at the time of the Olympic Games of summer to be used as stage of drive, the competitions being held with the Melbourne Cricket Ground. It comprises a track of athletics surrounding a lawn. It accommodates concerts also regularly.

The Équipe of Australia of football plays there regularly and it was a long time the only stage of the country to being approved by FIFA for the international meetings. It accommodates also international matches of Rugby to XIII as well as the finales of the championship of NRL. The rugbymen with XIII of the Melbourne Storm call it “The Graveyard” (the cemetery) because of the difficulty which their adversaries have to gain there. However, Storm soon will move for a very new ultramodern stage of 25.000 places.

Until 2007, it was the stage of the footballers of the Melbourne Victory (A-League), which will evolve/move with the Telstra Dome as from 2007-08.

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