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Casey Fields is a $30 million, 70 hectare multi-sports complex in the City of Casey at Cranbourne East a southeastern suburb of Melbourne. The complex is home to Australian rules football, cricket, netball, tennis, cycling, golf and rugby football. A prominent arena within the complex is the VFL Oval, an Australian rules football oval which serves as the home of the Casey Scorpions in the Victorian Football League. Other sports clubs based at Casey Fields are the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League, which has a training base in the complex, and the Casey-South Melbourne Cricket Club in the Victorian Premier Cricket competition. ==VFL Oval== The first stage of the Casey Fields development cost $4.2 million and opened on 29 April 2006. The facility consists of five grassed ovals: the main and northern-most oval is known as the VFL Oval, and is used exclusively for Australian rules football. In 2005, the VFL's Springvale Football Club had been struggling financially and was hindered by the rundown condition of its home ground in Newcomen Rd, Springvale. To attempt to financially secure its future, the club and the City of Casey came to an arrangement for club to move to Casey Fields. The club moved there in 2006, changed its name to the Casey Scorpions, and played its first match on the oval against Box Hill on 29 April 2006. In 2009, the Melbourne Football Club and the City of Casey entered a 30-year partnership. The partnership which saw Melbourne establish a training centre at Casey Fields on the VFL Oval and its pavilion, which was expanded for the partnership. The two parties established a number of community-based programs together, and Melbourne entered a reserves affiliation with the Casey Scorpions from that season. In addition to VFL matches, the VFL Oval has hosted NAB Cup pre-season regional challenge matches. The record crowd of 10,099 set in 2007 in a match between Hawthorn and Essendon. The ground also hosted many of the games played during the 2008 and 2009 AFL Under 18 Championships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Casey Fields )〕 The VFL Oval has a seating capacity for only a few hundred spectators, with terraces and hills around the ground providing the rest of its capacity.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Casey Fields」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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