Nambour Showgrounds
Nambour, Queensland, Australia
Nambour Showgrounds, Nambour, Australia — opened 1909, 5 rugby league games hosted, home of No single club owns Nambour Showgrounds as a rugby league home ground in Rugby League Project's data -- all 5 recorded matches are Wide Bay representative-team home fixtures in the Queensland Winfield/State League (1982-86); Wide Bay is normally associated with Maryborough/Bundaberg/Hervey Bay, and no source explains why its home matches were staged at Nambour specifically. Nambour's own local club, the Nambour Crushers (formed 1985), is plausibly linked to the ground given their shared town, but no source confirms it as their official home ground..
Ground facts
| Opened | 1909 (Sources give three different candidate "opening" milestones for this site depending on definition: the land itself was selected by settler Mathew Carroll in January 1870; the associated show society (Maroochy Pastoral, Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Society) was founded in 1900 but held its first exhibition at nearby Woombye, not Nambour; and the district show was first held at the Nambour Showgrounds specifically in June 1909, which is used here as the best available showgrounds-opening date. This is a general showground date, not a rugby-league-specific one -- the earliest known rugby league use of the site was a 1921 trial match, 61 years before Rugby League Project's own tracked match history begins in 1982.) |
| Home club | No single club owns Nambour Showgrounds as a rugby league home ground in Rugby League Project's data -- all 5 recorded matches are Wide Bay representative-team home fixtures in the Queensland Winfield/State League (1982-86); Wide Bay is normally associated with Maryborough/Bundaberg/Hervey Bay, and no source explains why its home matches were staged at Nambour specifically. Nambour's own local club, the Nambour Crushers (formed 1985), is plausibly linked to the ground given their shared town, but no source confirms it as their official home ground. |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 5 |
| Top recorded crowd | 0 |
| Capacity | A 600-seat grandstand is part of the modern multi-purpose showground complex (per Sunshine Coast Council) -- this is a current facility figure, not necessarily reflective of the ground's rugby-league-era capacity, and total ground capacity is not given. |
| Floodlights installed | Parts of the modern facility (outdoor sand arena, rodeo arena) have lighting for night events, but no source confirms floodlights on the rugby league/oval area specifically, historically or currently. |
| Surface | Grass -- the council describes "three multipurpose ovals" among the facility's grass playing areas, alongside separate sand arenas for equestrian use. |
| First rugby league match | 28 Mar 1982 -- Winfield State League 1982, Round 2: Wide Bay 14 def by Redcliffe 16 |
| Last rugby league match | 20 Apr 1986 -- State League 1986, Round 3: Wide Bay 24 def Easts 22 |
| Years used | 1982–1986 |
| Location | Nambour, Queensland |
Name history
Rugby league history
A 14.5-hectare multi-purpose showground (equestrian events, rodeo, cricket, tennis, badminton, the annual Sunshine Coast Show) rather than a dedicated rugby league venue -- rugby league use was always secondary. Local rugby league history at Nambour predates Rugby League Project's tracked data considerably: ten local clubs adopted the code at an 8 March 1920 meeting at the Club Hotel, and a 3 June 1921 trial match between a combined Brisbane team and Nambour Rural School boys was played at the showground, though this earlier match is not in Rugby League Project's database (likely as an untracked schoolboys/exhibition fixture). Nambour won three consecutive local premierships in 1946-48. The venue remains an active Sunshine Coast Council-managed community facility, with a master-plan redevelopment process under way as of 2024.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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