Seagulls Stadium was a rugby league stadium located on Gollan Drive in West Tweed Heads, New South Wales, a suburb of the Gold Coast. History See also History of rugby league The grass roots of rugby league can be traced to early football history, through the playing of ball games Tweed Heads is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia in Tweed Shire. This article is about the Australian city Gold Coast For other uses see Gold Coast.
Originally known as Chris Cunningham Field, it was the home ground of the Gold Coast-Tweed Giants rugby league franchise, who entered the New South Wales Rugby League premiership in 1988. Gold Coast were a Rugby league team which played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership from 1988 to 1994, the Australian Rugby New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the first Rugby league football club competition established in Australia Tweed Heads was chosen as the venue for Giants games, despite the club's name indicating they were based in the nearby state of Queensland. Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent This was due to a clause in the expansion licence, which stated that only one team was allowed to play in South East Queensland (this was awarded to the Brisbane Broncos, who also entered the premiership in 1988). The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional Rugby league club based in the city of Brisbane Queensland.
The stadium's capacity was close to 13,500. The record attendance was 13,423 for a match between the Giants and the Broncos on 8 May, 1988.
When the Seagulls Leagues Club purchased the Giants franchise in 1990, the team was renamed Gold Coast Seagulls to reflect their home stadium. The club's woeful record on the field (they finished with the wooden spoon three straight seasons, from 1991 to 1993) and the Super League war forced the club to sell the stadium and fold the team after the 1995 season. A' 'wooden spoon' is a mock or real award usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition but sometimes also to runners-up This article details what is commonly referred to as the Super League war, which was fought in and out of court during the mid-1990s by
Without a viable tenant, and being a largely inferior facility to nearby Carrara Stadium, Seagulls Stadium sat dormant until it was dismantled and the site bulldozed. Carrara Stadium or Carrara Sports Complex is a sporting venue on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, located in the suburb of A housing complex now covers the site.
The stadium's electronic scoreboard, 3500-seat grandstands and 40 corporate boxes were purchased in 2000 by the Wollongong Wolves football (soccer) team, based over 900 kilometres away. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered These pieces formed the basis of a new 14,000-seat stadium in Figtree, a suburb of Wollongong, which is scheduled to open in 2008. Figtree is an inner western suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
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