Located in the regional setting of Ballarat, Victoria, Ballarat Regional Soccer Facility has been designed to provide leading edge sporting and social facilities for elite A level as well as international level games.
Designed as a series of stages that form part of a Master plan for the site, Stage 1 includes the BRSF building, a 2 star FIFA rated turf playing pitch and synthetic training ground.
The facility has been designed to enhance the spectator’s experience and bring the viewer closer to the playing pitch. The coach’s boxes are also designed to be transparent with the grand stand elevated above the ground level to create a direct viewing line to the playing surface.
The internal function rooms and catering facility also has important social and economic benefits to the club and broader community.
The facility is unique in that it has been designed specifically for the soccer community of regional Victoria. As a result, k20 Architecture was able to customize the design to emulate the experience of a world standard soccer stadium. This is illustrated in the alignment of the primary players race to the centre line of the playing pitch, which enables players of all ages and standards to experience key aspects of playing on the “big stage” usually the realm of elite level competition.
The facility was selected from a pool of national sports facilities to host Bahrain’s national soccer team in the 2015 Asian Cup.