Oxenham Park
Brisbane (Nundah), Queensland, Australia
Oxenham Park, Brisbane (Nundah), Australia — opened 1933, 271 rugby league games hosted, home of None — a shared Brisbane Rugby League ground used by multiple clubs, including Norths (Norths Devils), rather than any single club's dedicated home.
Sourcing caveat: Total games-hosted figures for this venue disagree between sources: Rugby League Project's venue page and this site's own venue directory both give 271, while Redcap's BRL ground history separately states 388 premiership matches (1933-1970) plus one Grand Final (the 1942 Brothers-Souths decider) — likely reflecting a different scope (e.g. lower grades included) rather than a straightforward contradiction. The 271 figure, matching Rugby League Project and this site's directory, is used as the authoritative count; the 388 figure is noted here rather than silently discarded.
Ground facts
| Opened | 1933 (The site was developed as the Nundah Recreation Reserve from around 1904-06 (initially for cricket) and was not renamed Oxenham Park until 1939, after Queensland cricketer Ron Oxenham and the Oxenham family's work on the park; Rugby League Project's earliest recorded rugby league fixture there, on 6 May 1933, predates that renaming and is recorded retrospectively under the Oxenham Park name.) |
| Home club | None — a shared Brisbane Rugby League ground used by multiple clubs, including Norths (Norths Devils), rather than any single club's dedicated home |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 271 |
| Top recorded crowd | 2,000 |
| Years used | 1933–1958 |
| Location | Brisbane (Nundah), Queensland |
Name history
- Nundah Recreation Reserve — c.1904/06-1939
- Oxenham Park — since 1939
Rugby league history
Oxenham Park in Nundah was one of several secondary grounds used by the Brisbane Rugby League competition through the 1930s-1950s, hosting fixtures for Norths, Fortitude Valley, Eastern Suburbs, Brisbane Wests, Southern Suburbs, Past Christian Brothers and Queensland University among others. Sources disagree on how central the ground was to Norths specifically: Norths Devils' own club history describes the club as having "for many years played out of Oxenham Park" before their 1969 move to what is now Premiers' Park (Bishop Park), while a Brisbane Rugby League ground history instead characterises Oxenham Park as not exactly Norths' home ground but rather a lower-capacity BRL venue used league-wide for fixtures not expected to draw crowds large enough to justify a major ground like the Gabba, the Brisbane Exhibition Grounds or Lang Park. Both agree it is a genuinely separate site from Premiers' Park/Bishop Park, also in Nundah, which Norths moved to in 1969 and which has been their dedicated home ever since — there is no overlap between the two grounds.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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