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Perth Bears
The Perth Bears are a planned professional rugby league football club to be based in Perth, Western Australia that will enter the Expansion of the National Rugby League, expanded National Rugby League in February 2027. The club has links to the North Sydney Bears, a foundation club that exited the National Rugby League (NRL) in 1999 when it merged with the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles to form the Northern Eagles. The original Western Bears bid was rejected by the NRL in October 2024. However, in April 2025, after initially putting negotiations on hold, the NRL entered negotiations with the Government of Western Australia, and on 8 May 2025, an agreement was reached to admit the Bears into the competition in 2027 as the Perth Bears. The team's colours are the traditional red and black of North Sydney, with white. History There had been no elite rugby league team in Perth since the Western Reds folded in 1997, leaving Perth as the largest Australian city without a team in the NR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth Rectangular Stadium
Perth Rectangular Stadium (also known as HBF (insurer), HBF Park under naming rights) is a sports stadium in Perth, the capital of the Australian states and territories, Australian state of Western Australia. Located close to Perth (suburb), Perth's central business district, the stadium currently has a maximum capacity of 20,500 people for sporting events and 25,000 people for concerts, with the ground's record attendance of 32,000 people set during an Ed Sheeran concert in 2015. The land on which the stadium was built, known as Loton Park, was made a public reserve in 1904, with the main ground developed several years later. From 1910 until 2003, it was known as Perth Oval and was the home ground of the East Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). It hosted several of the competition's grand finals during that time. In 2004, the ground was redeveloped, altering it from an oval field to a rectangular field. The ground is currently home to two major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
