Extremely interesting case study for State Football infrastructure and something I think the FFA need to start paying attention too.

The Moreland City Council in Melbourne recently opened a new 6.3 million dollar football facility and have now granted its use to a number of local NPL clubs.

Brunswick City (word of mouth) Moreland Zebras and most notably Pascoe Vale were offered use of the facility for home games with the later two taking up the opportunity and moving from their traditional home grounds to the 500 seat crown jewel of the local council's soccer community.

Pascoe Vale, who usually play in front of crowds between 200-400 smashed club attendance records when they played their first home game this season to the tune of (reportedly) over 1,000 fans!

Should the FFA do more to assist the development of top class community football infrastructure? In my eyes it gives clubs the capacity to grow and professionalises the game at state level.

On top of that it literally builds a great foundation for clubs to prepare for a potential second division in the long run and will provide improved telecasts of FFA Cup matches in the short run.



Edited by SoccerLogic: 14/3/2015 02:45:37 AM

I was at the Pascoe vale game don't think they had a crowd of 1000 looked closer to 500-600

The facilities are great although parking is still a nightmare at cb Smith and the grandstand is to small.

The pitch is brilliant though don't know how well it hold up with Pascoe and Moreland playing home games on it one after another

Thankfully the clubs are only playing Senior and U20 matches there so the ground will only get about 6 hours of play a week.

Both teams are still training at their original home grounds.

As for the crowd, from photos it looked about 600-800 like you said but according to the PVFC it's a different story... then again, we know what teams are like with their crowd estimates...



http://www.pvsc.com.au/news/the-road-to-cb-smith-1393385.html

Edited by SoccerLogic: 14/3/2015 02:58:34 AM

That grandstand picture is very deceiving there were plenty of empty spots but Yeh clubs do bump up the numbers who could blame them.