Lank Bain Sporting Complex
Wauchope, New South Wales, Australia
Lank Bain Sporting Complex, Wauchope, Australia — opened unknown, 4 rugby league games hosted, home of Wauchope Blues (Group 3 Rugby League, NSW Country) -- also home to Wauchope Blues Junior Rugby League (founded July 1969). The four representative/touring matches recorded by Rugby League Project (1939-1990) predate confirmable Wauchope Blues tenancy and are not themselves home-club fixtures..
Ground facts
| Opened | unknown (No source gives a confirmed construction/opening year for the ground itself. The earliest date associated with the site in any source is a 19 August 1939 State Championships rugby league match, but no source explicitly states this as an opening date -- it is only the earliest known use. Named for a member of the local Bain family (a prominent pioneering Wauchope family of Scottish descent); a separate, possibly unrelated "Bain Park" also exists in Wauchope, donated by a different Bain family member -- whether the two sites are connected is unconfirmed and not assumed here.) |
| Home club | Wauchope Blues (Group 3 Rugby League, NSW Country) -- also home to Wauchope Blues Junior Rugby League (founded July 1969). The four representative/touring matches recorded by Rugby League Project (1939-1990) predate confirmable Wauchope Blues tenancy and are not themselves home-club fixtures. |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 4 |
| Top recorded crowd | 5,000 |
| Capacity | Not stated in any source found. |
| Floodlights installed | Yes -- LED floodlights installed in 2017 across Fields 2 and 3 (used for junior rugby league) as part of a AU$460,000 combined lighting upgrade shared with nearby Oxley Oval; not stated whether the main senior field had lights before 2017. |
| Surface | Grass (implied by all sources; not explicitly stated in so many words). |
| First rugby league match | 19 Aug 1939 -- State Championships, Round 1: NSW Group 3 14 def by North Sydney 19 |
| Last rugby league match | 20 Jun 1990 -- Les Chanticleers Tour 1990, Game 4: NSW North Coast 26 def France 10 (crowd 5,000, the venue's top recorded crowd) |
| Years used | 1939–1990 |
| Location | Wauchope, New South Wales |
Name history
Rugby league history
A regional NSW venue with a notable record of hosting touring international sides against composite NSW North Coast representative teams: France (Chanticleers) in both 1964 and 1990, and Great Britain (Lions) in 1984. A multi-sport site, also used for cricket, sitting adjacent to Wauchope Racecourse. Currently home to the Wauchope Blues Group 3 club and its junior section.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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