Traeger Park is a sports complex located in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. The primary stadium in the complex caters for Australian rules football and cricket and has a capacity of 10,000. 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.
Traeger Park has occasionally staged pre-season matches for the Australian Football League and National Rugby League. In 2004, an AFL Regional Challenge match between Collingwood Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club attracted a sell-out crowd of 10,000. In 2006, the West Coast Eagles played the Carlton Football Club in an NAB Cup Regional Challenge match. A Trial match between the North Queensland Cowboys and the Brisbane Broncos was played at the ground during the warm-up to the 2011 NRL season.
On 7 May 2013, it was announced that on 28 and 29 November, Traeger Park will host a cricket match between a Chairman's XI and England during the English teams 2013-14 Ashes tour.
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