What’s the best stadium for RL in Australia?

[Graham]

Well views have been sought and…

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Suncorp Stadium has taken home the honours of the Best NRL Stadium for 2021.

The Home of the Broncos and Maroons received 24% of the votes through the 2021 Stadium Awards, narrowly beating out CommBank Stadium as the NRL's premier venue.

This is the first time that Suncorp Stadium has taken home the award, after coming third in 2018 and 2019. There were no Awards presented in 2020.

Due to COVID restrictions, the NRL Grand Final was held at the venue, which ended up being one of the highlights of the season. Similar to the AFL where Optus Stadium took home the Best AFL Stadium award, hosting the league's Grand Final appears to have helped Suncorp with voting.

 

[Graham]

Here’s a full list:

The Results:

Best NRL Stadium

Suncorp Stadium (24%) Brisbane

CommBank Stadium (23%) Parramatta 

AAMI Park (21%) Melbourne 

Queensland Country Bank Stadium (9%) Townsville

Accor Stadium (3.8%) Sydney

Best Regional Stadium

Queensland Country Bank Stadium (30%)

GMHBA Stadium (25%) Geelong

McDonald Jones Stadium (12%) Newcastle NSW

WIN Stadium (10%) Wollongong NSW

Mars Stadium (5%) in the Victorian regional city of Ballarat, in Wendouree

Best A-League Stadium

AAMI Park (34%)

CommBank Stadium (29%)

HBF Park (13%)

Central Coast Stadium (7%)

Coopers Stadium (4.6%)

Australia's Best Stadium

Optus Stadium (29%)

Melbourne Cricket Ground (21%)

CommBank Stadium (12%)

Suncorp Stadium (8%)

Adelaide Oval (8%)

Best AFL Stadium

Optus Stadium (37%)

Melbourne Cricket Ground (36%)

Adelaide Oval (8%)

Sydney Cricket Ground (6%)

GABBA (4.3%)

Best Cricket Ground

Melbourne Cricket Ground (27%)

Optus Stadium (25%)

Adelaide Oval (22%)

Sydney Cricket Ground (12%)

GABBA (7%)

Best Indoor Arena

Rod Laver Arena (30%)

RAC Arena (27%)

Qudos Bank Arena (22%)

Brisbane Entertainment Centre (6%)

John Cain Arena (5%)

[Graham]

Fans voted during December. Awards presented January 2022

 

 

Agree?

[George Watt]

22 minutes ago, Graham said:

Well views have been sought and…

 

The new stadium to be built at Penrith by season 2025 is tipped to blow other RL grounds out of the water! Unfortunately I will have permanently moved far away from the area by then so will never experience being there.

[Sports Prophet]

On 13/01/2022 at 20:07, George Watt said:

The new stadium to be built at Penrith by season 2025 is tipped to blow other RL grounds out of the water! Unfortunately I will have permanently moved far away from the area by then so will never experience being there.

You mean fortunately you will have permanently moved far away from the area?

[Sports Prophet]

Gotta agree with the top three

[Anita Bath]

Give me a ground with a hill anytime.

 

You cant find a finer place to watch a game from than the hill at Albert Bishop Park, Home of QRLs Norths Devils.

[R L Winger]

They left out the best stadiums to play marbles on.

[DlEHARD]

These polls are pretty bias because fans will vote for their home ground.

 

Be good if they had some criteria they would use and send some "experts" in to assess.