Sydney FC (Youth)

Jubilee Oval (Capacity 22.000)

Sydney FC - Gold Coast United (1:3) (Y-League, 21. January 2012)

Attendance: 110
Cost: Free
Programme: Nil

Entry to the ground

 

Time for kick-off

 

Corner for Sydney FC

 

And at the other end, corner for GCU

 

View in the main grandstand

 

Behind the goals

 

A few regulations to adhere to

 

View of the pitch

 

Looking across to the main grandstand

 

Old school manual grandstand

 

Another view of the pitch

 

GCU on the attack

 

Full time

STADIUM HISTORY: (wiki)

Jubilee Oval (sometimes referred to as Kogarah Oval) is one of two home stadiums used by the St. George Illawarra Dragons team, a rugby league club that plays in Australasia's National Rugby League. The R2K (Return to Kogarah) entity was instrumental in ensuring that NRL matches were played at Kogarah from 2003 onwards. Until 31 October 2008, the ground was known as OKI Jubilee Stadium, when OKI Printing Solutions naming rights contract expired. On 15 January 2009, Jubilee Oval was retained in the new sponsored name of WIN Jubilee Oval.

Located on the Princes Highway in the Sydney suburb of Carlton, it originally hosted its first game of rugby league sometime in 1936 when the Dragons defeated the Newtown Bluebags in an exhibition match. The stadium has undergone several constructions over the years and one is still being planned for the foreseeable future. The first official game was played on 22 April 1950 in which the Dragons lost 17-15.
Jubilee Oval currently stands on part of the original grant of 87 acres (350,000 m2) awarded on 23 December 1853 to Archibald McNab. Edmund English purchased the grant on 23 May 1854 for around 400 pounds. It officially became known as Kogarah Park when it was acquired by the Department of Lands on 1 July 1896 and dedicated as the first public park in Kogarah. Control of the park was eventually passed to the Council of the Municipality of Kogarah on 29 August 1906.

The Sydney Olympic football (soccer) club, who played in the now-defunct National Soccer League (NSL) competition, played at this ground in the 2003/2004 season. This season was the NSL's final competition at the top level, before the introduction of the A-League in 2005.

On 4 December, 2011, Win Jubilee marked the first time the A League played a first grade competition game at this venue, with Sydney FC playing Brisbane Roar. Sydney won 2-0, and this game itself would be remembered as the game the Roar lost its first match in the last 36 matches.

The ground record attendance for Kogarah was set in May 1975 when St. George took on South Sydney in front of 23,582 fans. In its modern form, the record attendance is 20,847 when the Dragons took on local rivals the Cronulla Sharks in March 2009.