Brisbane Exhibition Ground no.2
Brisbane (Bowen Hills), Queensland, Australia
Brisbane Exhibition Ground no.2, Brisbane (Bowen Hills), Australia — opened 1924, 156 rugby league games hosted, home of None (shared secondary pitch for Brisbane Rugby League premiership fixtures, within the Brisbane Exhibition Ground / RNA Showgrounds complex).
Sourcing caveat: This is very likely a second, distinct playing field within the same Brisbane Exhibition Ground / RNA Showgrounds complex already catalogued as 'Brisbane Exhibition Ground' -- not a duplicate record of the same field, and not an unrelated venue elsewhere. No source found explicitly confirms that 'Brisbane Exhibition Ground no.2' corresponds to the showgrounds' 'Show Ring No. 2' built in 1924; that link is inferred from the matching date and is flagged rather than stated as fact. This differs from the 'South Ryedale Stadium' case elsewhere in this batch, which the evidence points to being the SAME field/ground rather than a second one.
Ground facts
| Opened | 1924 (Rugby League Project's match database for this venue begins in May 1924, the same year Wikipedia's Brisbane Showgrounds article records the construction of the showgrounds' second ring ('Show Ring No. 2'), suggesting the two dates refer to the same development, though no source explicitly names 'Show Ring No. 2' as the rugby league venue.) |
| Home club | None (shared secondary pitch for Brisbane Rugby League premiership fixtures, within the Brisbane Exhibition Ground / RNA Showgrounds complex) |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 156 |
| Top recorded crowd | 3,000 |
| Years used | 1924–1943 |
| Location | Brisbane (Bowen Hills), Queensland |
Name history
- Brisbane Exhibition Ground no.2 — 1924-1929, per Rugby League Project's match database
Rugby league history
Brisbane Exhibition Ground no.2 is a genuinely distinct entry in Rugby League Project's venue database from the main 'Brisbane Exhibition Ground' -- but the evidence points to it being a second playing field within the same Bowen Hills showgrounds complex ("the Ekka"), rather than a different site altogether. Its recorded rugby league fixtures run from May 1924 to August 1929, matching Wikipedia's Brisbane Showgrounds article, which records that a second show ring was built at the site in 1924, initially for exhibiting dairy cattle. Brisbane Rugby League clubs recorded playing there include Wests, Carlton, Coorparoo, Fortitude Valley, Queensland University and Past Christian Brothers, across regular-season, semi-final and grand-final fixtures, including the 1928 BRL Grand Final between Queensland University and Carlton. As with the main Exhibition Ground, use of this second field for rugby league appears to have faded as the code's major fixtures consolidated elsewhere in Brisbane.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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