Jensen Oval

Soccer field

Coordinates: 33°53′04″S 151°01′03″E / 33.884490°S 151.017570°E / -33.884490; 151.017570 Jensen Oval is a suburban soccer park located on Clapham Road, Birrong, Sydney, Australia, within the City of Bankstown. It is the homeground of the Bankstown City Lions who last played in the New South Wales Premier League in 2011 and since then are playing in the National Premier Leagues NSW Level 2. It can currently hold up to 8,000 spectators. It has 2 main grandstands & a training park next to it.

Jensen Park is the only other pitch in the world with the same dimensions as FC Barcelona's Camp Nou. Therefore known as the sister stadiums, every year at Sefton play house board members from Bankstown City and FC Barcelona get together with strippers to celebrate there common grounds.

It was built early in the 1960s as a Premier Ground for football in the Bankstown LGA & for the Bankstown City Football Club in the New South Wales Premier League Side. The Oval's facilities include play equipment, a soccer field, turf cricket pitch and toilets.^[1]Before the rebuild in the early 1960s it had been used by the local junior Regents Parks Soccer Club and also for cricket since at least the early 1950s.

References

↑ Bankstown Council - Jensen Oval Bankstown Council

City of Bankstown, South-western Sydney

Suburbs and localities within the City of Bankstown	Bankstown Bass Hill Birrong Chester Hill Chullora Condell Park East Hills Georges Hall Greenacre Manahan Milperra Mount Lewis Padstow Padstow Heights Panania Picnic Point Potts Hill Punchbowl Revesby Revesby Heights Sefton Villawood Yagoona

War history	Bankstown Bunker History of Bankstown during World War II HMS Nabberley No. 1 Fighter Sector RAAF

Crime	Bilal Skaf Milperra massacre Roger Rogerson Sydney gang rapes Villawood Immigration Detention Centre

Education	Alphacrucis Al Amanah College Bankstown Boys (Bankstown Senior College) Bankstown City Library Bankstown Girls Birrong Girls High School Bass High School Georges River Grammar LaSalle Catholic College Malek Fahd Islamic School St Euphemia College Sefton High School University of Western Sydney

Public transport bus service	Highway Tours McVicar's Bus Services Punchbowl Bus Company South Western Coach Lines Transdev NSW

Public transport by rail	Airport line Bankstown Line Bankstown station Birrong station Chester Hill station East Hills station Leightonfield station Padstow station Panania station Punchbowl station Revesby station Sefton station Villawood station Yagoona station

Sports facilities and public parks	Bankstown Oval Dunc Gray Velodrome Garrison Point Georges River National Park Jensen Oval McLeod Reserve Middleton Park Mirambeena Regional Park O'Neill Park Salt Pan Creek Terry Lamb Complex

Other utilities	Bankstown Airport Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital

Sports teams	Bankstown Berries Bankstown Bruins Bankstown City Bulls Bankstown City Lions Bankstown District Cricket Club Bankstown RSL Dragons Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Chester Hill Rhinos Yagoona Lions

Notable residents past and present	Danny Adcock Tahir Bilgiç Bryan Brown John Burgess Paulini Curuenavuli Anh Do Casey Donovan Brett Emerton Mamdouh Habib Hard-Ons Christian Heim Brett Holman Terry Lamb Paul Keating Geoff Robinson Akmal Saleh Vince Sorrenti Ian Thorpe Mark Waugh Steve Waugh

Other topics	Bankstown Bites Food Festival Bankstown Central Shopping Centre Canterbury-Bankstown Division of Banks Electoral district of Bankstown (results)

List of Sydney suburbs

National Premier Leagues NSW stadiums

Belmore Sports Ground Bicentennial Park South Bonnyrigg Sports Club Cromer Park Lily Homes Stadium Jensen Oval Leichhardt Oval Lidcombe Oval Marconi Stadium Seymour Shaw Park Sydney United Sports Centre WIN Stadium

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