Concord Oval

The stadium has two opposing grandstands. The eastern stand hosts the tennis box-style seats, television gantry and the change rooms. The stand runs approximately from try-line to try-line. The western stand contains a gym and some boxes. This stand runs approximately from dead-ball line to dead ball line. In front of the western stand are two rows of seats, while a concrete path runs around the field (except not in front of the aforementioned two rows of seats, the path runs behind those seats). At each end there is a grassy hill, and at the southern or Parramatta Road end, there is a wooden, manually operated scoreboard with an analogue clock.

The stadium is bordered by Gipps Street to the north, Parramatta Road to the south, Loftus Street to the west and the Cintra Hockey Centre to the east. Parking is at a premium with small carparks behind the northern hill, eastern stand and in the south-east corner, although Burwood train station is not too far away, and the 439, L39, 464 and 466 bus routes pass close to the stadium.

St Luke's Park, which was the home ground of Sydney's Western Suburbs Magpies rugby league club in 1910 and 1911 was where Concord Oval is now located.[1] Wests started playing their matches at Pratten Park in 1912, but after pressure from local residents there the council refused the club permission to use that ground, forcing them to return to St. Luke's Oval from 1915 to 1919.[2] From 1920 Wests resumed playing at Pratten Park.

Concord Oval in its present form was constructed between 1984 and 1987 to become the home of Rugby union in Sydney[3] and subsequently the redeveloped venue hosted games in the 1987 Rugby World Cup.

The stadium also hosted four first grade rugby league matches, three of them in 1994 as Canterbury's second home ground during that season.

In the early 2010s the City of Canada Bay Council prepared a masterplan [4] to bring major events back to an expanded and rejuvenated Concord Oval. This includes construction and installation of broadcasting equipment such as satellite dishes, antennas, camera platforms and commentary boxes, as well as training quality floodlighting and a new scoreboard.

In 2020, it was announced that the Concord Oval will undergo a $51 million redevelopment to accommodate the Wests Tigers new training and administration complex to be completed by mid–2021.[5] Demolition works began in mid-2020 with the Eastern Stand completely demolished by July 2020.[6]

Concord Oval hosted six matches of the 1987 Rugby World Cup.

Date	Competition	Home team		Away team		Attendance
23 May 1987	1987 Rugby World Cup Pool 1	Australia	19	England	6	17,896
30 May 1987	1987 Rugby World Cup Pool 1	England	60	Japan	7	4,893
3 June 1987	1987 Rugby World Cup Pool 1	England	34	United States	6	8,785
		Australia	42	Japan	23
7 June 1987	1987 Rugby World Cup Quarter-final 2	Australia	33	Ireland	15	14,356
13 June 1987	1987 Rugby World Cup Semi-final 1	Australia	24	France	30	17,768

• Concord Oval at Austadiums
• Concord Oval Rleague.com.