Marvel Stadium

Capacity: 53,359
Record Crowd: 56,771 – Australia vs British and Irish Lions (June 29^th, 2013)
Home Teams:

• Essendon Football Club (AFL)
• St.Kilda Football Club (AFL)
• Western Bulldogs Football Club (AFL)
• North Melbourne Football Club (AFL)
• Carlton Football Club (AFL)
• Melbourne Renegades (BBL)
• Melbourne Renegades (WBBL)

Docklands Stadium, also known by naming rights sponsorship as Marvel Stadium, is a multi-purpose, grassed oval sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Construction started in October 1997, and was completed in 2000 at a cost of A$460 million. The stadium features a retractable roof, and the ground level seating can be converted from oval to rectangular configuration.

The stadium is primarily used for Australian rules football, and was originally built as a replacement for Waverley Park. Offices at the precinct serve as the headquarters of the Australian Football League (AFL) which, since 7 October 2016, has had exclusive ownership of the venue. With a capacity for 56,000 spectators for sports, the stadium is the second-largest in Melbourne, and hosts a number of other sporting events, including domestic Twenty20 cricket matches, Melbourne Victory soccer home matches, rugby league and rugby union matches, as well as special events and concerts. Seven Network’s digital broadcast centre is also headquartered at the precinct.

With dimensions of the playing area are 159.5 metres by 128.5 metres (174.4 yards by 140.5 yards), some key features of the stadium include:

• Retractable roof 38 metres (125 ft) above the playing surface, opens east-west, and takes eight minutes to fully open or close.
• Movable seating (4 sections of the lower tier can move 18 metres forward to give a rectangular configuration)
• Two large internal replay screens which display scores and advertisements.
• External super screen
• 1000 video seats
• 13 function rooms
• 66 corporate boxes