page_title: Parramatta Stadium
section_title: Replacement
hierarchical_section_title: Parramatta Stadium / Replacement
caption_attribution_description: English: A view from the northeast corner of Western Sydney Stadium, looking towards its southwest corner. Taken on 14 April 2019, the day Western Sydney Stadium was officially opened and the first open house event occurred. The stadium replaced the former Parramatta Stadium, which stood on this site from 1985 to 2017. The stadium will be the permanent home ground of the Western Sydney Wanderers and the Parramatta Eels, while the Wests Tigers and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs will use the venue occasionally for home games, and the New South Wales Waratahs will use the venue while their traditional home ground, the Sydney Football Stadium, is being rebuilt.
context_page_description: Parramatta Stadium was a sports stadium in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, 23 kilometres west of Sydney's central business district. The stadium was the home ground of several western Sydney-based sports teams, at the time of closure the most notable were the Parramatta Eels of the National Rugby League and the Western Sydney Wanderers of the A-League.
  Cumberland Oval was the local name for the cricket, motor sports and rugby venue that had existed prior to Parramatta Stadium being built, with the area having been used for recreational activities since 1788, the founding year of the British colony in New South Wales.
  The stadium also hosted numerous other sporting and cultural events since its opening in 1986. Michael Jackson performed there during his Bad World Tour on 20–21 November 1987, and Paul McCartney concluded the Australian leg of The New World Tour with two shows there on 22–23 March 1993.
  In 2015 the NSW Government announced that the stadium would be demolished and replaced, and to that end, Parramatta Stadium was demolished in February 2017, with the new Western Sydney Stadium built in the same location.
context_section_description: In September 2015, the New South Wales Government announced that the stadium would be replaced with a new 30,000 seat venue on the same site, officially named the Western Sydney Stadium. Construction began in 2017 and was completed in April 2019.
  Parramatta Stadium's last A-League match was a semi-final between the Western Sydney Wanderers and Brisbane Roar where the Wanderers came from a 3-0 deficit to win the game 5-4 in extra time. The Parramatta Eels hosted the final game of first grade rugby league at the ground, defeating St George Illawarra 30-18, with Bevan French scoring three tries in a blowout scoreline.
  The final ever game to be played at the ground was the 2016 Intrust Super Premiership NSW grand final between Mounties and Illawarra with Illawarra winning their first and only premiership 21-20.
caption: Western Sydney Stadium
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