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Perry Park Stadium is currently the home of the Brisbane Strikers who play in the Hyundai Queensland Soccer League. It is located in Enoggera Park in Bowen Hills.
Perry Park is regarded as the \'spritual home of Association Football (soccer)\' in Queensland. In 1977 it hosted its first National Soccer League Match between Brisbane City and Sydney club Marconi Fairfield.
Scotsman William Raff was granted ownership of the land in 1857. He then subdivided the land in 1875, and the lot where Perry Park is now situated was sold to William Perry, among three other lots. Mr Perry was a prominent Brisbane ironmonger, hence the adjacent street that leads up the hill being named Ironmonger Street. He used the land as his family cattle and horse paddock.
In the 1940s the site was used as a base for the Z Special Unit of the Australian, British and New Zealand armed forces for their 1943 raid on Japanese occupied Singapore harbour.
The ground was the home of Mayne Football Club and Valleys Cricket Club from 1925 to 1942 and 1948 to 1967.
Today Perry Park is again in its ascendancy. While it only has a grandstand capacity of about 5,000 at present, it is being upgraded to become a
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