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| Former names | Beach Road Oval Hampton Oval Sandringham Cricket Ground |
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| Location | Beach Rd,Sandringham, Victoria |
| Coordinates | 37°56′42″S145°0′1″E / 37.94500°S 145.00028°E /-37.94500; 145.00028 |
| Owner | City of Bayside |
| Capacity | 6,000 (500 seated)[1] |
| Field size | 160m × 120m |
| Surface | Grass |
| Opened | 1929 |
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| Sandringham Football Club (VFL) Southern Saints VFLW Sandringham Dragons (NAB League) St Kilda (AFLW) (2022 (S6)) | |
Trevor Barker Beach Oval,[2] also known simply asTrevor Barker Oval and currently known undernaming rights as theWilson Storage Trevor Barker Beach Oval (WSTBBO),[3][4] is anAustralian rules football ground in Beach Road, on the border betweenHampton andSandringham,Victoria.
Most commonly known asBeach Road Oval throughout its existence, in 1998 the ground was renamed after the lateTrevor Barker, who died ofcancer in 1996 at the age of 39.[5] Barker had coached theSandringham Football Club to the 1992 and 1994 premierships.
In the late 1920s, theSandringham City Council had been seeking to establish a senior football club in the district to join theVictorian Football Association, and providing a fenced venue to which admission could be charged was a requirement of the Association. After a previous unsuccessful application,[6] the council received permission from the State Government to fence the existing playing oval in February 1929; theSandringham Football Club entered the VFA the same season.[7]
The oval has a singlegrandstand (theNeil Bencraft Grandstand), a southern end named after record breaking goal kickerNick Sautner (the Sautner Goal), and an administration centre (the John Mennie Administration Centre)[8] – asocial club and a capacity for 10,000. A record crowd of 18,000 attended the venue's first Sunday VFA premiership game, held between Sandringham andPort Melbourne Football Club in April 1964.[9] Arec footy competition was also played at the ground.
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