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Name
Ikon Park
Alternate: Princes Oval, Princes Park, Optus Oval, MC Labour Park, Visy Park

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North Melbourne Kangaroos Women vs Port Adelaide Power Women
Sat 23 Nov 2024 04:05

Established
1886 (138 years old)

Capacity
13,000

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Country
Australia

Location
Carlton North

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Coordinates
37°47′2″S 144°57′42″E

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Upcoming

23 Nov

North Melbou

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Port Adelaid

4:05am

Past Events

16 Nov	Hawthorn Haw	49 - 50	Port Adelaid
10 Nov	Hawthorn Haw	32 - 38	Brisbane Lio
08 Nov	North Melbou	38 - 31	Adelaide Cro
02 Nov	Carlton Blue	24 - 60	Essendon Bom
02 Nov	Melbourne De	74 - 27	Collingwood
17 Oct	Carlton Blue	34 - 30	Western Bull
05 Oct	Carlton Blue	13 - 68	Brisbane Lio

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Princes Park (also known as Ikon Park under naming rights) is an Australian rules football ground located inside the Princes Park precinct in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton North. Officially the Carlton Recreation Ground, it is a historic venue, having been Carlton Football Club's VFL/AFL home ground from 1897.

At its highest usage, the ground had a nominal capacity of 35,000, making it the third largest Australian rules football venue in Melbourne after the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Docklands Stadium. Princes Park hosted three grand finals during World War II, with a record attendance of 62,986 at the 1945 VFL Grand Final between Carlton and South Melbourne. After 2005, when the ground hosted its last Australian Football League (AFL) game, two stands were removed and replaced with an indoor training facility and administration building, reducing the capacity. The venue reached capacity (24,500) for the inaugural AFL Women's match between Carlton and Collingwood in 2017. Subsequent renovations and modernisation of the ground and surrounding precinct have reduced Ikon Park's capacity to approximately 13,000.


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