Traeger Park (currently known under naming rights as TIO Traeger Park) is a sports complex located in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, in the suburb of The Gap. Named after Alfred Hermann Traeger, the park was officially opened by Anne Catherine Smallwood (née Traeger), Alfred's younger daughter. The primary stadium in the complex caters for Australian rules football and cricket and has a capacity of 7,200. The complex also has a small baseball stadium.
Traeger Park is home to the Central Australian Football League, and also hosts the annual Ngurratjuta Easter Lightning Carnival.
The venue hosted its first ever AFL premiership match on 31 May 2014, with shifting its home match against to the venue. Melbourne has scheduled one match per year at the venue since 2014, often to coincide with the league's Indigenous Round; the 2021 match was cancelled when travel into Northern Territory was restricted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dating to as early as 1988, the ground has a history of staging warm-up and tour matches for visiting international Test squads; and since 2004 it has hosted matches in the annual Imparja Cup, a limited overs tournament contested by state and territory teams comprising Indigenous Australian cricketers.
The ground hosted its first Big Bash League match on 13 January 2018, with the Adelaide Strikers taking on the Perth Scorchers.
A new 750 kva transformer and high voltage cabling reticulation is required to increase power supply to Traeger Park to cater for the new lights and grandstand facility. The grandstand/multi functional facility will replace the existing Ted Hayes Memorial Stand and is expected to consist of players change rooms and amenities, players dining rooms, umpires change room, first aid room, doctor/physio room, grandstand seating, multipurpose function room, kitchen, corporate rooms, press rooms and third umpire room.
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