Carisbrook
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| place | Dunedin , New Zealand |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 53 '37 " S , 170 ° 29' 26" E |
| owner | Carisbrook Ground Company |
| operator | Carisbrook Ground Company |
| start of building | 1881 |
| opening | 1883 |
| demolition | 2013 |
| surface | grass |
| capacity | 29,000 |
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Otago Rugby Football Union |
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Carisbrook was a stadium in the New Zealand city of Dunedin . It existed from 1880 to 2013.
geography
The stadium was about two miles southwest of downtown Dunedin in the Caversham neighborhood , near the South Island Main Trunk Railway and New Zealand State Highway 1 . The stadium last held 29,000 spectators.
use
The main users were the rugby union teams Otago Rugby Football Union in the ITM Cup and Highlanders in the Super Rugby championship . The stadium was also used for cricket , soccer , rugby league and motocross events. The stadium was demolished in 2013.
history
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The stadium's name is derived from the country home of MP James Macandrew , which in turn comes from Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight . In 1874 the Carisbrook Cricket Club first used the area owned by the parish of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand . The first small grandstand was built in 1880. The first major sporting event was a cricket match between Otago and Tasmania in 1884 . The first rugby match took place here two years later when the New South Wales selection team visited.
In 1906 the Otago Rugby Football Union (ORFU) acquired the facility and expanded it continuously over the following decades. With away teams struggling to win at Carisbrook , the stadium was nicknamed The House of Pain . Test matches in rugby union have been played here since 1908, test cricket games since 1955. In the mid-1950s, the stadium offered 45,000 spectators. Comprehensive modernization of the grandstands in the early 1990s reduced the audience to 29,000. Carisbrook hosted two games in the 1987 Rugby Union World Cup , a 1992 Cricket World Cup game , the 1998 National Provincial Championship final and the 1999 Super 12 final.
In August 2006, there were plans for the first time to replace the dilapidated stadium with a new roofed building near the University of Otago in view of the 2011 Rugby Union World Cup . Construction on the new Forsyth Barr Stadium began in 2009 and was completed two years later. The All Blacks' last international rugby match in Carisbrook was against Wales on June 19, 2010, and the Highlanders played for the last time on June 3, 2011 . In mid-December 2011, the floodlight poles were removed for reuse in Rugby League Park in Christchurch . The demolition work began in August 2013 and took around four months.
All that remains of the old stadium is the brick ticketing booth built on Neville Street in 1926 and registered with Heritage New Zealand under number 7782 as a Category I Historic Monument.
Web links
- The Carisbrook Stadium Charitable Trust . Forsyth Barr Stadium, archived from the original on September1, 2013; accessed on January 6, 2016(English, Former official website of the stadium operator).
- Carisbrook , Register of Historic Places, New Zealand Historic Places Trust
Individual evidence
- ^ Carisbrook. www.orfu.co.nz, archived from the original on October 14, 2008 ; Retrieved October 14, 2008 .
- ^ Final stage of Carisbrook demolition . Otago Daily Times , August 13, 2013, accessed January 6, 2015 .
- ^ A b New Zealand farewell the House of Pain in style . The Sydney Morning Herald , June 19, 2010, accessed August 23, 2013 .
- ↑ Lights go down at Carisbrook . Dunedin Television , December 13, 2011, accessed January 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Dunedin's Carisbrook Stadium demolished . 3news , August 13, 2013, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
- ^ Carisbrook . Heritage New Zealand , accessed January 6, 2016 .