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| location = [[Edinburgh Gardens, Melbourne|Edinburgh Gardens]], [[Brunswick Street, Melbourne|Brunswick StStreet]], [[North Fitzroy, Victoria|North Fitzroy]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]

| tenants = [[Fitzroy Football Club]] ([[Victorian Football League|VFL]])<br /> Administration &and Trainingtraining (1883–1970)<br /> [[Australian Football League|VFL/AFL]] (1883-19661883–1966)<br /> [[Fitzroy Football Club|Fitzroy]] ([[Victorian Amateur Football Association|VAFA]])<br /> Fitzroy Junior Football Club<br />[[Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club|Fitzroy Cricket Club]] (1872-19861872–1986)<br />Edinburgh Cricket Club

The '''WT Peterson Community Oval''', best known as the '''Brunswick Street Oval''' and also as the '''Fitzroy Cricket Ground''', is aan [[cricketAustralian rules football]] and [[Australian rules footballcricket]] ground located in [[Edinburgh Gardens, Melbourne|Edinburgh Gardens]] in [[Fitzroy North, Victoria|Fitzroy North]], [[Victoria, (Australia)|Victoria]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/brunswick-street-oval|title=Brunswick Street Oval|access-date=16 April 2022}}</ref>

===Australian Rules Footballfootball===

The ground wasis the home of the [[Fitzroy Football Club]] in the [[Victorian Amateur Football Association]]. It was also Fitzroy's home in the [[Victorian Football League|Victorian Football Association]] from 1884 to 1896, and in the [[Australian Football League|Victorian Football League]] from 1897 until 1966, with the last game being played there on Saturday 20 August 1966 against {{AFL StK}}, a game which the Lions lost by 84 points.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/1966/061519660820.html|title=AFL Tables -– Fitzroy v St Kilda -– Sat, 20-Aug-1966 2:20 PM -– Match Stats|work=afltables.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fitzroyfc.com.au/local_rites_ch1.htm|title=FFC: Local Rites, Chapter 1 -– Paul Daffey|work=fitzroyfc.com.au|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204192802/http://www.fitzroyfc.com.au/local_rites_ch1.htm|archive-date=4 February 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The Fitzroy Football Club then moved its home games to [[Princes Park (stadium)|Princes Park]], sharing the ground with [[Carlton Football Club]] between 1967 and 1969, while keeping their training and administrative base at the Brunswick Street Oval, before moving its home games and their training and administrative base to the [[Junction Oval]] in St Kilda from 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.afl.com.au/news/200009/end-of-an-era-no-more-footy-at-junction-oval|title=End of an era: No more footy at Junction Oval|date=20 July 2015|access-date=17 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/25/what-becomes-of-the-broken-hearted-the-footy-stalwarts-who-kept-fitzroy-alive|title=What becomes of the broken hearted: the footy stalwarts who kept Fitzroy alive|website=[[The Guardian]]|location=London |date=24 August 2016|access-date=17 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/brunswick-street-oval|title=Brunswick Street Oval|access-date=16 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.afl.com.au/news/46466/the-moment-that-began-fitzroys-long-slow-death|title=The moment that began Fitzroy's long, slow death|date=24 June 2016|access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> A total of 747 matches at the top level of Victorian senior football -– 135 in the VFA and 612 in the VFL -– were played at the ground over 83 seasons of competition.

The ground was also used for Australian rules football during the late 1970s and 1980s by the Fitzroy Rovers footballFootball clubClub in the Western Suburban Football League, before it began to be used by the [[Melbourne University Football Club|University Reds]] football club in the [[Victorian Amateur Football Association]] in 1991. In 1996, the Fitzroy Football Club mergedwere placed withinto administration, ultimately leaving the AFL at the end of the [[1996 AFL season|1996 season]]. That year the club's AFL license was taken over by the [[Brisbane Bears]], andat which point the remainingBears Victorianchanged memberstheir ofname to the club[[Brisbane beganLions|Brisbane toBears-Fitzroy beFootball basedClub at(BBFFC theor BrunswickBrisbane StreetLions)]]. Oval,Fitzroy eventually mergingcame out of administration in 1998, and merged with the UniversityFitzroy Reds in 2009, to formrejoin competitive football within the FitzroyVictorian RedsAmateur Football ClubAssociation, whichand isare now based at the oval once again.<ref name="About Fitzroy Football Club">{{cite web|url=httphttps://www.fitzroyfc.com.au/brunswickstoval.htmlabout|title=BrunswickFitzroy StreetFootball OvalClub – About|workwebsite=fitzroyfc.com.au|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219091819/http://www.fitzroyfc.com.au/brunswickstoval.html|archive-dateaccessdate=197 FebruaryMay 2011|df=dmy-all2023}}</ref> The main grandstand is listed on the [[Victorian Heritage Register]].<ref>{{cite VHD|447|Fitzroy Cricket Ground Grandstand|hr=0751|ho=215|access-date=27 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://yoursayyarra.com.au/brunswickstoval/history|title=History of the Brunswick Street Oval facilities|access-date=16 April 2022}}</ref>

The venue's original tenants, the [[Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club|Fitzroy Cricket Club]], used the venue as its primary home ground from 1872 until it left the venue in 1986, when they merged with the Doncaster Cricket Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fitzroyfc.com.au/local_rites_ch1.htm|title=FFC: Local Rites, Chapter 1 -– Paul Daffey|work=fitzroyfc.com.au|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204192802/http://www.fitzroyfc.com.au/local_rites_ch1.htm|archive-date=4 February 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://yoursayyarra.com.au/brunswickstoval/history|title=History of the Brunswick Street Oval facilities|access-date=16 April 2022}}</ref> The venue hosted one [[first-class cricket]] match, between [[Victoria cricket team|Victoria]] and [[Western Australia cricket team|Western Australia]] in 1925/26.<ref>{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/2/116_f.html|access-date=8 April 2014|title=First class matches played on the Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Melbourne (1)|publisher=Cricket Archive}}</ref> The venue however remains home ground of Thethe Edinburgh Cricket Club which was established in 1978 and is one of the largest cricket clubs in Victoria with 40 junior sides ranging from Underunder 10 to Underunder 18 .<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edinburghcricketclub.com/|title=Edinburgh Cricket Club|access-date=16 April 2022}}</ref>

During the 1975 and 1976 [[Victorian Premier League|Victorian State League]] seasons, the venue was used by the [[soccer]] club [[Heidelberg United]] (then known as ''Fitzroy United Alexander''),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://neososmos.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/victorian-state-league-on-fitzroy.html|title=Neos Osmos|author=Ian Syson|work=neososmos.blogspot.com.au|date=5 July 2013 }}</ref> as well as one fixture in the [[National Soccer League]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110843758|title=02 May 1977 -– Canberra City draws after bad errors PHILIPS SOC...|workvia=nla.gov.auNational Library of Australia|date=2 May 1977 }}</ref> In the 1980s the venue was used intermittently by several lower-league soccer clubs up until 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://neososmos.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/soccer-at-fitzroy-cricket-ground-from.html|title=Neos Osmos|author=Ian Syson|work=neososmos.blogspot.com.au|date=5 July 2013 }}</ref> The venue had previously hosted several showpiece soccer matches in the 1910s and 1920s, including [[Dockerty Cup]] finals, the annual local 'internationals' as well as genuine international matches.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://neososmos.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/soccer-at-fitzroy-cricket-ground.html|title=Neos Osmos|author=Ian Syson|work=neososmos.blogspot.com.au|date=5 July 2013 }}</ref>

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