Wises Road Sports Ground
Buderim, Queensland, Australia
Wises Road Sports Ground, Buderim, Australia — opened unknown, 5 rugby league games hosted, home of The "Sunshine Coast" Queensland Cup franchise (the debut 1996 Sunshine Coast Falcons, later Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles, now Sunshine Coast Falcons again) used Wises Road as one of two home venues in its inaugural 1996 season, alongside Kawana Sports Precinct, per Rugby League Project's own franchise history. Also historically associated with the local Buderim rugby league club, though no source confirms an exact tenancy date range for that club specifically..
Ground facts
| Opened | unknown (No source gives a ground-specific opening date. Organised rugby league in Buderim dates back to 1920, when it was one of ten founding clubs of the North Coast Rugby League, but this does not confirm Wises Road itself was in use that early. In Rugby League Project's own data, the venue's tracked history begins in 1996, which is a first-recorded-representative-match date rather than a ground-opening date.) |
| Home club | The "Sunshine Coast" Queensland Cup franchise (the debut 1996 Sunshine Coast Falcons, later Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles, now Sunshine Coast Falcons again) used Wises Road as one of two home venues in its inaugural 1996 season, alongside Kawana Sports Precinct, per Rugby League Project's own franchise history. Also historically associated with the local Buderim rugby league club, though no source confirms an exact tenancy date range for that club specifically. |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 5 |
| Top recorded crowd | 0 |
| Capacity | Not found in any source. |
| Floodlights installed | Not confirmed either way by any source found. |
| Surface | Not confirmed by name; presumed grass as standard for a suburban Queensland sports ground of this type, but no source states this explicitly. |
| First rugby league match | 8 Jun 1996 -- QLD Cup 1996, Round 8: Sunshine Coast 8 def by Clydesdales 20 |
| Last rugby league match | 18 Mar 2017 -- National Youth Competition 2017, Round 3: Melbourne 28 def Brisbane 24 |
| Years used | 1996–2017 |
| Location | Buderim, Queensland |
Name history
Rugby league history
The four 1996 fixtures were all part of the debut Queensland Cup Sunshine Coast Falcons' 1-14 losing inaugural season. The one outlying 2017 fixture -- an NRL Under-20s National Youth Competition match between Melbourne and Brisbane at a suburban Buderim ground, 21 years after the venue's other recorded matches -- is most plausibly explained by the Sunshine Coast Falcons becoming an official Melbourne Storm affiliate club from 2015, though no source directly confirms why Wises Road was chosen for this specific fixture over the larger Sunshine Coast Stadium. Note: the Sunshine Coast Falcons' own website states the club "was formed in 2006," which conflicts with both Rugby League Project and Wikipedia documenting a Sunshine Coast Falcons competing in the 1996 Queensland Cup itself, and an even earlier Winfield State League representative side from 1993 -- most likely reconciled by a lapse-and-relaunch in the club's history, but no source explicitly confirms this, so it is disclosed as an unresolved conflict between the club's self-description and the historical match record.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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