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Ken Gannon Awards: Coburg City Oval wins Vic prize
08 JUN 2022 BY: AFL VICTORIA
The Coburg City Oval Redevelopment in the City of Moreland. Photo by Antarctica Architects.
The Coburg City Oval Redevelopment Project has been announced as the State and Territory winner for Victoria as part of the AFL’s annual Ken Gannon Community Football Facilities Awards.
The Coburg City Oval Redevelopment Project is a $6.715m project in the City of Moreland, located in metropolitan Melbourne. The redevelopment has provided female friendly VFL standard change rooms and amenities for players and umpires, a new function room and restored undercover grandstand. The improved facilities support player, umpire and administrator pathways and the implementation of female football at an elite level, whilst also providing the Coburg Football Club with the opportunity to generate income via a new social/function facility.
The development benefits the Coburg Football Club (Coburg JFC, Coburg FIDA, Coburg Auskick, EDFL Finals) as well as the local community.
The new Coburg FC function room
The Ken Gannon Awards recognise best practise in community football facility development across Australia, along with the people, clubs and other stakeholders driving the best projects.
These awards are funded by the AFL’s Australian Football Facilities Fund which partners on $50M worth of community football facility projects benefitting more than 100 clubs each and every year.
Lakelands Park Sporting Complex in Western Australia was announced as the winner of the National Project of the Year.
Ken Gannon Awards 2021 - State & Territory winners (with total project cost):
- WA (National Winner): Lakelands Park Sporting Complex, $7,900,000
- NSW/ACT: Community Clubrooms for AFL in the Northwest - Pennant Hills Demons AFC, $2,080,000
- NT: Santa Teresa Oval Project, $811,500
- Qld: Ferny Grove Falcons – New Change Room Project, $1,100,000
- SA: Norwood Oval Redevelopment, $10,682,500
- Tas: Brighton Regional Sports Pavilion, $6,480,000
- Vic: Coburg City Oval Redevelopment, $6,715,000
To view case studies of the winning projects, click here.
AFL Executive General Manager of Game Development, Rob Auld, said: “The winners of the Ken Gannon Awards are remarkable examples of best-practice development that benefit the game and communities across Australia."
“The AFL is proud of its investment into the game and the facilities we use. We are currently involved in more than 200 facilities projects in development or underway across the country at all levels of the game, from elite through to grassroots. The scale of facilities development benefiting football is unprecedented and is due to the growth of the game nationally, particularly in female football."
CEO of the Coburg Football Club, Sebastian Spagnuolo, said: “Our club is so grateful and appreciative of the work that has gone into the redevelopment of the facilities at Coburg City Oval."
"For many years we went without and often struggled in an old and tired building that just wasn’t equipped to handle the modern footballer. This new facility no longer holds us back from an on field or off field perspective and our players, sponsors, supporters and members now have even more pride in their connection and association to our club that has called City Oval home for 131 years.”
Coburg City Oval Redevelopment Facilities Tour
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