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The best in my opinion would have to be the mighty MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) Now holds 100,000 people after the recent redevelopment including state of the art changing rooms, cricket and football training facilities, will soon have one of the biggest sporting museums in the world and can hold sports such as soccer, aussie rules football, cricket of course, rugby league and union, baseball (it has happened), athletics and others.
Historically the ground has been very significant
- This place is the home of the first ever Cricket test match
-The home of Australian Rules football, the AFL (australian football league) is the biggest sporting league in australia and on average gets 36,000 people per game. MCG is the home ground to 4 of these teams and every weekend has 2-3 games. Has held the grand final all but one year which every year sells out.
- Has held an Olympic games in 1956
- Recently held the most sucessful commonwealth games ever
- Has the record for the biggest crowd for a cricket test match, the boxing day test is held every year starting on boxing day and usually gets 75,000 to the first day, this year they expect the first day atleast to sell out (about 99,000)
- The biggest crowd for a baseball match was held here during the 1956 olympics for a exhibition match, and baseball is a very small spot on the sporting radar in australia which adds to the significance
- Held concerts (the three tenors and others), the pope held mass here nad many other events
- has held australian soccer world cup qualifiers including against iran and uruguay and is now the home of australian soccer matches ahead of stadium australia.
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