Athletic Park
Athletic Park is a stadium in Newtown, New Zealand that opened in 1896. Its recorded capacity is 800.
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Key facts
Athletic Park is a stadium in Newtown, New Zealand that opened in 1896. Its recorded capacity is 800. It is owned by Athletic Park Company and Wellington Rugby Football Union and Wellington Rugby Football Union. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are Wellington Rugby Football Union, Wellington Hurricanes.
- Location
- Newtown, New Zealand
- Type
- Stadium
- Capacity
- 800
- Opened
- 1896
- Status
- Demolished
- Current owner
- Athletic Park Company, Wellington Rugby Football Union, Wellington Rugby Football Union
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
- Playing surface
- Natural grass
Athletic Park is at latitude -41.317222, longitude 174.776944, in Newtown, New Zealand. The marker is drawn from the recorded coordinates. The building outline appears here once OpenStreetMap footprint geometry is available for this venue.
Data table for this chart
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Latitude | -41.317222 |
| Longitude | 174.776944 |
| City | Newtown |
| Region | Newtown |
| Country | New Zealand |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Technology
| Feature | Recorded as | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | Natural grass | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
See the venue technology guides for how these work.
Naming rights
No naming history is recorded for this venue.
Ownership and operation
| Role | Organization | Period | Status | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | Wellington Rugby Football Union | 1896 to present | Current | Wikidata statement | Source |
| Owner | Athletic Park Company | Present | Current | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
| Owner | Wellington Rugby Football Union | Present | Current | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
Tenants
| Tenant | Competitions | Period | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington Rugby Football Union | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Wellington Hurricanes | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
Recorded changes
13 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2026 | venue_features | (created) | not set | 1765 | 2026-10 |
| 24 September 2026 | org_aliases | (deleted) | New Zealand national rugby union team | not set | 2026-09 |
| 24 September 2026 | venue_roles | (deleted) | 34032 | not set | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 34032 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | org_aliases | (created) | not set | 2322 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | capacity | 39000 | 800 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1372064762 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Athletic_Park,_Wellington | Athletic Park, Wellington | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 20264 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 20263 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 20262 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 20261 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 9373 | 2026-09 |
Sources and licenses
Every ownership, naming and sponsorship row on this page carries the URL it was derived from. The site as a whole is built from these sources:
- Wikidata: CC0 1.0. Data from Wikidata, released under CC0 1.0 Universal.
- OpenStreetMap: ODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
- Wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Row-level sources used for this venue: