Davies Park (Brisbane)
Brisbane (West End), Queensland, Australia
Davies Park (Brisbane), Brisbane (West End), Australia — opened 1901, 1,003 rugby league games hosted, home of Southern Suburbs (Souths) District Rugby League Football Club / Souths Logan Magpies.
Sourcing caveat: Capacity (5,000) is single-sourced to Austadiums and could not be independently corroborated; treated as indicative rather than fully verified. Opening-year discrepancy (1901 vs 1920) noted in opened_caveat.
Ground facts
| Opened | 1901 (Brisbane City Council's own heritage listing gives a precise opening date of 14 December 1901. One secondary source (Austadiums) separately states '1920', which appears to refer to later formalisation of the sporting oval/grandstand rather than the park's original opening — the Council heritage source is treated as authoritative for the opening date.) |
| Home club | Southern Suburbs (Souths) District Rugby League Football Club / Souths Logan Magpies |
| Site today | Still an active sporting venue: its main oval (renamed Bill Tyquin Oval in 1978, after the 1949 Souths captain) remains the home ground of Souths Logan Magpies, alongside rowing sheds for several Brisbane rowing clubs. |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 1,003 |
| Top recorded crowd | 12,335 |
| Capacity | 5,000 (per Austadiums, current configuration; single-sourced) |
| Surface | Grass |
| First rugby league match | Rugby league matches from the 1909 inaugural Brisbane Rugby League season (South Brisbane and West End clubs both based here; exact first fixture not identified in sources found) |
| Years used | 1914–2026 |
| Location | Brisbane (West End), Queensland |
Name history
- West End Reserve (also called West End Recreation Reserve) — 1901–1909
- Davies Park — since October 1909 (renamed to honour Alderman John Davies after a 600-signature local petition)
Rugby league history
One of Brisbane rugby league's earliest and longest-continuously-used grounds, Davies Park (originally the West End Reserve) was home to South Brisbane/Carlton (later Southern Suburbs) from the code's first Brisbane competition season in 1909, and to the West End club from 1910. A memorial grandstand honouring Alderman Davies opened in 1914. Souths went on to enjoy a strong post-war era at the ground, winning four premierships in nine years, and the Queensland Rugby League has leased fields there since the 1920s. The ground briefly doubled as Brisbane's first speedway venue (Olympia Motors Speedway) in the late 1920s, hosting the Australian Solo Championship motorcycle titles in 1929. It remains in active rugby league use today as home of the Souths Logan Magpies in the Queensland Cup, giving it well over a century of continuous rugby league history.
Also used historically for cricket, tennis, basketball, beach volleyball, motorcycle speedway (1920s-30s) and, today, is home to West End Football Club (soccer) and several Brisbane rowing club sheds.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
← Rugby League · Champions list · All-time records · Grand Final results · World Cup · All competitions · Teams · Players