GMHBA Stadium News

GMHBA Stadium is gearing up to host its first AFL game on Saturday as a 40,000-capacity venue, following the completion of the new Joel Selwood Stand.

The new 14,000-seat northern grandstand at GMHBA Stadium will be named in honour of legendary Geelong Football Club captain and record-holder Joel Selwood.

GMHBA has renewed its partnership with the Geelong Cats for a further four years until November 2027, retaining naming rights to GMHBA Stadium.

The Geelong Football Club has confirmed the new 14,000-seat northern grandstand at GMHBA Stadium won’t be ready for any part of the 2023 AFL season.

The final stage of the GMHBA Stadium redevelopment, in which the Geelong stadium’s capacity will be boosted to 40,000, will get underway following the AFL season.

An additional $40 million in government funding has been secured to complete the five-stage redevelopment of Geelong’s GMHBA Stadium.

Coronavirus and the postponement of the T20 World Cup could bring forward the fifth and final stage of the GMHBA Stadium redevelopment.

A new stadium will be built in Melbourne’s west and Campbelltown Stadium will be redeveloped following confirmation of two new teams entering the A-League over the next two seasons.

Simonds Stadium's new Charles Brownlow Stand has been officially unveiled ahead of its first game on Friday evening.

A new Trust headed by Steve Bracks will oversee the next phase of development at Simonds Stadium to commence following the 2015 AFL season.

The new-look redeveloped Simonds Stadium hosted its first AFL game under lights last Saturday evening with Geelong defeating the Gold Coast Suns in front of over 30,000 fans.

Demolition works will start early next year on Simonds Stadium's Doug Wade Stand after the Geelong Football Club received the green light to build its $49 million stand.

Simonds, Victoria's most-awarded homebuilder and long-time sponsor of the Geelong Cats, is proud to announce that from 2012 the Cats' home ground will be known as Simonds Stadium.

Geelong is confident that the AFL will schedule at least one more game at Skilled Stadium each season after receiving federal government funding yesterday for lighting that will allow night football to be played at the venue from 2013.

Skilled Stadium in Geelong will have a new name in 2012, with the process of finding a new naming rights sponsor for the stadium underway.