Perry Lakes Stadium
Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Perry Lakes Stadium, Perth, Scotland — opened 1962, 1 rugby league games hosted, home of None specific -- a multi-purpose athletics/football/concert venue and the administrative HQ for several WA sporting bodies.
Sourcing caveat: This venue's country/region fields are recorded incorrectly (as Scotland) in both our own directory and in Rugby League Project's own database -- a shared data quirk inherited from RLP rather than a mistake introduced independently. The venue described here is genuinely the Western Australian stadium, not a Scottish one.
Ground facts
| Opened | 1962 (Our directory (and Rugby League Project's own venue page, independently confirmed via direct fetch) lists this venue's location as "Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland" -- this is a data error, almost certainly Rugby League Project's own geocoding defaulting a bare "Perth" text match to Perth, Scotland rather than Perth, Western Australia. The real venue is unambiguously the well-known stadium in Floreat, Western Australia, built for the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, closed in mid-2009 when the new WA Athletics Stadium opened nearby, and demolished 2010-2012 (the site was later redeveloped as housing). There is no evidence of any second, genuinely Scottish "Perry Lakes Stadium".) |
| Home club | None specific -- a multi-purpose athletics/football/concert venue and the administrative HQ for several WA sporting bodies |
| Demolished | Closed mid-2009; demolished 2010-2012; site redeveloped as housing |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 1 |
| Top recorded crowd | 6,000 |
| Capacity | approx. 30,000 for athletics (main grandstand covered seating for 5,000; an estimated 50,000 attended the 1962 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony) |
| Years used | 1975 |
| Location | Perth, Perth and Kinross |
Name history
Rugby league history
Perry Lakes Stadium's single recorded rugby league match, on 1 June 1975, was a warm-up fixture ahead of that year's Rugby League World Cup: a touring England side (the Great Britain squad competing under that name for the tournament) beat a Western Australia representative side 40-2 in front of 6,000, independently corroborated by Wikipedia's 1975 Rugby League World Cup article with identical date, score and attendance. This sits within a period when touring British and French rugby league sides occasionally played exhibition matches against local WA sides to help develop the code in Western Australia, historically a rugby league minnow state dominated by Australian rules football.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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