Frankston Park

Kinetic Stadium
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Former namesFrankston Park
Kars Street Oval
Skybus Stadium
LocationFrankston, Victoria
Coordinates38°8′32″S 145°7′13″E / 38.14222°S 145.12028°E / -38.14222; 145.12028
OwnerFrankston City Council
OperatorFrankston Football Club
Capacity5,000 (1000 seated)[1]
Field size185m × 110m
SurfaceGrass
Tenants
Frankston Football Club (PFA, MPFL, VFL 1887-)
Hawthorn Football Club (AFLW 2022-)
Melbourne Rising (NRC) (2015–2019)

Frankston Park, known commercially as Kinetic Stadium, is a suburban Australian rules football ground located in Frankston, Victoria, in Australia. It is home to the Frankston Football Club, which plays in the Victorian Football League.

Frankston Park is noted for the unusually long and narrow dimensions of its playing surface.[2] It is also a rare example of a top municipal football ground which has, for most of its history, not been used for cricket during the summer months. In the early 1920s, the council determined that it preferred to leave the ground as a public space during summer and to not compromise the surface by installing cricket pitches. Since that time, Jubilee Park has been the district's primary cricket venue.[3]

In 2008, the St Kilda Football Club had planned to move its primary training base from Moorabbin Oval to Frankston Park and to re-develop it into a top class training venue for the club; but these plans fell through due to high cost, and the club instead developed and moved to Belvedere Park in nearby Seaford.[4]

  1. ^ "Frankston Park". austadiums.com. Austadiums. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  2. ^ Daniel Duffy (10 August 2009). "Senior team match report – Round 17". Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Frankston Cricketers and the park". Frankston and Somerville Standard. Frankston, VIC. 6 June 1923. p. 4.
  4. ^ Matt Burgan (17 September 2008). "Saints to move training base to Seaford in 2010". Retrieved 24 March 2014.