Australian Football League Grounds: Melbourne Cricket Ground, Docklands Stadium, Waverley Park, List of Australian Football League Grounds

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Melbourne Cricket Ground, Docklands Stadium, Waverley Park, List of Australian Football League grounds, Sydney Cricket Ground, York Park, WACA Ground, Stadium Australia, Victoria Park, Melbourne, Arden Street Oval, The Gabba, Subiaco Oval, Whitten Oval, Carrara Stadium, North Hobart Oval, Canberra Stadium, Junction Oval, Manuka Oval, Kardinia Park, Princes Park, Football Park, Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Windy Hill, Essendon, East Melbourne Cricket Ground, Punt Road Oval, Motordrome, Lake Oval, Marrara Stadium, Brunswick Street Oval, Cazaly's Stadium, Glenferrie Oval, Corio Oval, Toorak Park, Yarraville Oval, Coburg City Oval. Excerpt: The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light towers at any sporting venue. The MCG is within walking distance of the city centre and is serviced by the Richmond railway station, Richmond and the Jolimont railway station, East Melbourne. It is part of the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct. Internationally, the MCG is remembered as the centrepiece stadium of both the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The open-air stadium is also one of the world's most famous cricket venues, with the well-attended Boxing Day Test match commencing on Boxing Day (26 December) each year. Throughout the winter, it serves as the home of Australian rules football, with at least one game (though usually more) held there each round. The stadium fills to capacity for the AFL Grand Final in late September. The MCG, often referred to by locals as The G, has also hosted other major events, including International Rules between t...