Wanderers Oval

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Wanderers Oval
Magic Park
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View of the field from the southern end
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Wanderers Oval
Wanderers Oval is in New South Wales
Coordinates 32°55′13.7″S151°43′51.6″E / 32.920472°S 151.731000°E / -32.920472; 151.731000
Public transit
OwnerNewcastle Macedonia Football Club Inc
TypeSportsground
Genre(s)Sporting events
Seating type
  • 489 grandstand seats
  • bench seating around oval
  • grass perimeter seating
Capacity 3,500 (500 seated) [1] [2] [3]
Record attendance4,000 [1]
Field shapeFootball Field
SurfaceGrass
Tenants
Broadmeadow Magic
The grandstands have seating for 489 people Wanderers Oval grandstand.jpg
The grandstands have seating for 489 people

Wanderers Oval (nicknamed Magic Park), [4] is a soccer stadium in Newcastle, Australia. It is the home ground for the Broadmeadow Magic Football Club and had occasionally been used by Newcastle Jets women and youth sides. [1] [5] It was one of 11 training sites for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup. [6] [7] In 2014, it hosted the first televised match of the FFA Cup (now Australia Cup). [8] [9]

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  2. ↑ "Wanderers Oval" . Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "Magic Park" . Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "The Womens National Football Competition of Australia". ozfootball.net. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Venue update on Westfield FFA Cup Round of 32 fixtures". Football Federation Australia. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "Australia's Asian Cup pitch for world-class playing surfaces". Four Four Two. 26 August 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  7. ↑ Bennett, Josh (24 January 2015). "UAE sweat on Abdulrahman ahead of Socceroos showdown". Sportal. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "The magic of cup football comes to Australia". The World Game. 27 July 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  9. ↑ "Venue FFA Cup 2014 Round of 32". FFA CUP. 29 July 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2020.


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