Les Burger Field
Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia
Les Burger Field, Tweed Heads, Australia — opened Not documented, 3 rugby league games hosted, home of North Coast (NSW representative side, 1965 and 1979 fixtures); present-day 'Les Burger Fields' in nearby Cabarita Beach is home to the Tweed Coast Raiders junior club, though the link between the two is unconfirmed.
Ground facts
| Opened | Not documented (No source gives an opening date. RLP lists the venue's location simply as Tweed Heads, NSW, while a present-day junior rugby league club (Tweed Coast Raiders) plays at a similarly named ground, 'Les Burger Fields' (plural), in Cabarita Beach, roughly 10km north -- whether this is the same physical ground under a looser historical location label, or a separate venue with a near-identical name, could not be confirmed from any source checked and is disclosed as an open question rather than assumed either way. No source explains who Les Burger was.) |
| Home club | North Coast (NSW representative side, 1965 and 1979 fixtures); present-day 'Les Burger Fields' in nearby Cabarita Beach is home to the Tweed Coast Raiders junior club, though the link between the two is unconfirmed |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 3 |
| Top recorded crowd | 4,871 |
| Years used | 1964–1979 |
| Location | Tweed Heads, New South Wales |
Name history
Rugby league history
A regional NSW venue used for representative rugby league fixtures against touring international sides. All three recorded matches feature a North Coast or Gold Coast representative team: a French touring side (1964), a State Cup fixture against Canterbury (1965), and the venue's best-attended match, a 1979 Great Britain Lions tour game against North Coast (crowd 4,871, the figure recorded on this site) -- a genuinely significant fixture for a regional ground, though this crowd figure and score could not be independently corroborated beyond Rugby League Project. The Tweed Heads district's senior club, the Tweed Heads Seagulls, is documented as having used entirely different grounds (Tweed Heads Recreation Ground, Seagulls Stadium, and now Piggabeen Sports Complex), with no Les Burger Field connection found -- this appears to be a separate, lesser venue outside recent senior club history. No capacity, floodlight or playing-surface information was found.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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