New stadium and venues announced for Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic Games

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has unveiled the state’s plans for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Video games, which embrace a brand new Brisbane Stadium, a brand new Nationwide Aquatic Centre, a serious growth of the Queensland Tennis Centre and a devoted para-sport facility for town.

The state’s plan, titled “Delivering 2032 and Past” has been shaped in response to the Video games Impartial Infrastructure and Coordination Authority’s (GIICA’s) 100-Day Assessment, which was delivered to the federal government on 8 March 2025. The plan entails a $7.1 billion capital works program of recent and upgraded venues and infrastructure, in addition to a $250 million funding into upgraded group golf equipment throughout Brisbane and higher Queensland.

In keeping with Crisafulli, “Brisbane can be centre stage for the best present on earth and the advantages will final for many years after the Closing Ceremony.”

The center of the video games can be positioned 2 kilometres north of Brisbane’s CBD at Victoria Park. In keeping with a launch from the Premier’s workplace, the general public parkland, which was beforehand house to a personal golf course, can be reworked into “a thriving central video games precinct spanning Spring Hill, Bowen Hills and Victoria Park.”

The brand new stadium can be constructed at an estimated price of $3.785 billion, seating a minimal of 60,000 spectators in the course of the Olympics occasions and as much as 63,000 attendees after the video games. In keeping with the plan, “Victoria Park provides a singular alternative to develop a world class stadium which is able to showcase Brisbane on the worldwide stage. Its inner-city location, metropolis views and skill to combine inside a masterplanned park make it an unparalleled selection for an iconic sporting and leisure venue.”

“A brand new stadium will enable Queensland to draw sporting and music occasions and be the brand new house for AFL and Cricket,” Crisafulli mentioned.

The close by RNA Showgrounds website in Bowen Hills may also be upgraded to ship a number of video games amenities. Inside strolling distance of the brand new stadium, the primary Olympic Athlete Village can be constructed inside the precinct and transformed to everlasting housing after the video games. The Most important Area of the showgrounds may also be upgraded with a 20,000-seat out of doors area, meant to serve the continuing Queensland Ekka occasion.

Throughout the highway, a brand new Nationwide Aquatic Centre can be developed to host the video games’ swimming, diving, water polo and creative swimming occasions on the website of town’s heritage-listed Centenary Pool, designed by James Birrell and accomplished in 1959. The proposal is at odds with the GIICA’s suggestion to ship a brand new Excessive Efficiency Aquatic Centre adjoining to the present Brisbane Aquatic Centre within the metropolis’s east.

In line with the GICCA’s suggestion for the brand new predominant stadium at Victoria Park, the Premier has determined to desert plans to improve the Gabba Stadium within the south of town. The Gabba can be used to host cricket in 2032, “earlier than being reworked as a vibrant new leisure and housing precinct,” the discharge reads.

The federal government notes that plans for a brand new Brisbane Reside area at Roma Road may also not proceed. As a substitute, the Brisbane Area Precedence Space can be relocated to the vacant GoPrint website in Woolloongabba, “paving the best way for a everlasting legacy along with a brand new housing and leisure precinct over the Gabba when it’s taken down.” In keeping with the Premier’s workplace, the transfer may also deliver safety to East Brisbane State Faculty, guaranteeing it isn’t relocated.

“Whereas a Brisbane Area is not required for the video games, the Queensland Authorities has taken steps right now to permit Brisbane Reside to be delivered by the personal sector, offering the chance for the Federal Authorities’s contribution to be directed towards different important Video games infrastructure,” the discharge reads.

Additional afield, the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson, presently house to Pat Rafter Area, can be expanded to incorporate a brand new everlasting 3000-seat present courtroom area and 12 new match courts.

Eastwards, the Chandler Sport Precinct can be upgraded to help the Nationwide Aquatics Centre and to incorporate a devoted para-sport facility, in addition to the Brisbane Worldwide Capturing Centre, which can be upgraded to extend capability of the indoor vary. The Premier’s workplace additionally notes {that a} New Redland Whitewater Centre can be delivered inside the future Birkdale Neighborhood Precinct.

The plan additionally consists of new Indoor Sports activities Centres at Logan and Moreton, which the federal government hopes will “handle the rising demand for indoor courts in among the quickest rising areas of Queensland.”

“With main new venues and upgraded sports activities amenities, higher Brisbane may have high-performance venues attracting world occasions past 2032,” Crisafulli mentioned.

A brand new stadium on the Sunshine Coast, together with new and upgraded venues on the Gold Coast can be supported by new Athletes Villages at every location. Venue upgrades in Toowoomba, Rockhampton and Cairns may also allow occasions throughout the state.