Briggs Road Sporting Complex is an

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stadium located in the

Ipswich, Queensland Ipswich () is an urban centre within the City of Ipswich in South East Queensland, Australia. Situated on the Bremer River (Queensland), Bremer River, it is approximately 40 km (25 mi) west of the Brisbane central business district. Ipswich is ...

suburb of Flinders View. The ground is home to

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, which plays in the Australian second-tier

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competition. The facility contains three rectangular fields and a training area. Briggs Road Sporting Complex forms a larger sporting precinct with the neighbouring Ipswich Hockey Complex, which together have been used for sporting carnivals and regional trials.

History

Briggs Road Sporting Complex was the home of Ipswich Junior

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and briefly state league side

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. It hosted the 2012 Murri Rugby League Carnival. On Wednesday May 18, 2016, a crowd of reported variously as between 1200 and 3200 watched Western Pride FC played

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with the visitors winning 2–0. On Saturday 1 September 2017, a crowd of 3383 watched Western Pride win the

Grand Final against

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Neville T. Bonner Building

The grandstand and clubhouse is named after Ipswich resident Senator

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, the first of the country's

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to become a member of the

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. The clubhouse features a function room, canteen and bar.

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