Melbourne is home to over 29 stadiums with a capacity of over 10,000 people.
Some venues, such as the Albert Park Formula 1 track and Calder Raceway have
large capacities but only temporary structures, whilst there are many large
suburban horse racing tracks and Australian rules ovals. While many large
suburban Australian rules venues, such as Waverley Park have been retired as blockbuster games have been moved to the bigger venues, some AFL clubs continue to use them as training and administration bases or used as multi-purpose venues.
The city also has large State Cycling, Hockey, Baseball/Softball and Netball centres and an Ice centre (Australian Olympic Winter Institute) is being constructed in Melbourne Docklands. A new AUD$100 million, 20,000-seat multi-purpose rectangular stadium is currently under construction in Melbourne Park.
The biggest and most important of Melbourne's stadiums are shown in the table below:
| Venue |
Capacity |
Main Sports |
| Flemington Racecourse |
130,000 |
Horse racing |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground |
100,000 |
Cricket, Australian rules football |
| Telstra Dome |
56,347 |
Australian rules football, Rugby union |
| Caulfield Racecourse |
50,000 |
Horse racing |
| Princes Park |
35,000 |
Australian rules football |
| Victoria Park |
27,000 |
Australian rules football |
| Moorabbin Oval |
27,000 |
Australian rules football |
| Western Oval |
25,000 |
Australian rules football |
| Olympic Park |
18,500 |
Soccer, Rugby league |
| Rod Laver Arena |
14,820 |
Tennis |
| Vodafone Arena |
10,500 |
Tennis, Cycling, Gymnastics, and Basketball |
| Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre |
4,000 (9,000 for the Commonwealth Games) |
Swimming |
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