Arthur Beetson Oval
Roma, Queensland, Australia
Arthur Beetson Oval, Roma, Australia — opened 1999, 2 rugby league games hosted, home of Roma Cities Gladiators.
Ground facts
| Opened | 1999 (Single-sourced to a 2022 regional newspaper report, which states the ground's inaugural match was in 1999 featuring several former Queensland Maroons players; a secondary directory's opening date of 1 January 1900 looks like a database placeholder rather than a real figure and is not used here.) |
| Home club | Roma Cities Gladiators |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 2 |
| Top recorded crowd | 0 |
| Years used | 2022–2026 |
| Location | Roma, Queensland |
Name history
Rugby league history
Arthur Beetson Oval in Roma, Queensland is named for Arthur Beetson, the rugby league Immortal who was born in Roma in 1945, played his early football for the local Roma Cities Gladiators, and became the first Indigenous Australian to captain Australia in a major sport. It is the Gladiators' home ground and has occasionally hosted higher-tier Queensland Cup fixtures brought to regional Queensland as part of country-week initiatives, including the two matches on file, from 2022 and 2026.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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