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Latrobe City Stadium

Gippsland Sports and Entertainment Park is a multi purpose sport stadium located in Morwell, Victoria, Australia.

Opened in 1981 and originally known as North Crinigan Reserve, today it is the home ground of the Falcons 2000 in the Latrobe Valley Soccer League.

Whilst the facility is primarily used for soccer, it has also hosted one-off matches of rugby league, rugby union and American football.

Colloquially known as Falcons Park or Mobil Park (thanks to a long-running sponsorship with Mobil Australia), the broader precinct is officially known as Gippsland Sports and Entertainment Park.

The venue is the largest rectangular stadium in Victoria outside Melbourne.

It was previously the home ground of the defunct Gippsland Falcons during their tenure in the National Soccer League, and briefly in the Victoria Premier League. The Melbourne Rising rugby union club previously hosted a number of National Rugby Championship matches at the stadium.

In 1982 - the Falcons' second year at the venue after moving from Keegan Street Reserve - the ground's first Club Rooms were opened, with a covered terrace that provided room for 1000 spectators, and a function hall with seating for 600 patrons.

On March 14, 1992, with the Falcons having invested several million dollars of their own money into the development of GSEP after arriving at the venue in 1978 - taking it from bare farmland into the one of the finest sporting facilities in regional Australia - Latrobe City Council approved the sale of the precinct to the Falcons for $30,200.

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