Need help?
If you have questions before you apply, contact our open space bookings team.
Book a sportsfield
Play your favourite game on one of our many grounds.
At least $7.50 – we’ll invoice you for any hire and lighting fees.
When you need to do this
Bookings are required for any sport, training or fitness activities conducted on a our sportsfields or ovals.
Casual play in a park that isn’t a sportsfield or oval generally doesn’t need to be booked.
What you need to do
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Determine your booking type
Bookings will fall into one of these categories:
Seasonal hirer
- Holds public liability insurance for the booking
- Books and maintains at least 12 booking dates within any season (summer or winter) over any 12-week open period, not including scheduled facility closures
- Can be commercial applicants and organisations, or not-for-profit groups.
Casual hirer
- Holds public liability insurance for the booking
- Makes and maintains less than 12 bookings within any 12-week period
- Can include commercial applicant and organisations, or not-for-profit groups.
Casual hirer – no public liability insurance
- Limited to no more than 5 booking date within any 8-week period
- Maxumim 22 people onsite per booking
- Non-commercial entity or group (NFP)
- Can’t include contact sports, including rugby league or union, gridiron, cricket, bubble soccer or archery attack.
Individuals and small community groups without insurance my apply under our insurance policy.
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What you need to do
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Contact us
Email [email protected] to check availability and suitability of the sportsfield.
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Complete our online form
Application lead times
Seasonal sports
- Minimum lead time of 40 working days (8 weeks) before first proposed booking date
- Minor revisions may be accepted up to 10 working days (2 weeks) before a season begins
Casual, ad hoc and non-commercial community sports
- Minimum lead time of 5 working days (one week) before first proposed booking date
- Late applications may be accepted at our discretion
Selecting your field
Each of our sportsfields is suitable for specific sports. Check a sport below to learn which sportsfields are available and when, or contact us to discuss further.
If your desired sport is not listed above, contact us at [email protected] to find out if you can play it on any of our grounds.
Fees
We charge hire fees based on:
- applicant type
- field category (level A, level B or synthetic)
- casual or seasonal hire
- booking period.
View our fees and charges here.
Wet weather closures
For seasonal bookings, no refunds will be given.
Refunds or rain checks are available for casual hire.
After you finish
We’ll contact you about your application. If the sportsfield you’ve applied for is available and suitable, we’ll invoice you.
Once fees have been paid, you’ll receive written approval to go ahead.
Our sportsfields
Most of our sportsfields can be booked online:
You can book our other synthetic sportsfields by email:
| Oval name | Location | Contact email |
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Park Road, Alexandria |
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Zetland Avenue, Zetland |
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Maddox Street, Alexandria |
