Stadium
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Glory play their home games at nib Stadium, which can hold 20,500 spectators. The record attendance for a Glory A-League match is 16,019 to see Glory host North Queensland Fury FC in August 2010. The largest average season attendance in the A-League for the Glory is 9,374 in the 2005–06 season, while the largest attendance for any association football match at the ground was in November 1998 when 18,067 fans turned up to see a top-table clash with arch-rival South Melbourne FC.
Now that Western Australia has another major team in a rectangular-code competition (Western Force in the Super 14 Rugby competition), there is a big push to have a 30,000+ capacity rectangular stadium in Perth. Western Force and Perth Glory have joined forces on several occasions to knock on the door of the Western Australian Government and plead their case for a ground of this size. The Force previously played games out of 40,000-seat the oval-shaped AFL ground Subiaco Oval, which has hosted several Glory games before, generally NSL Finals games, most notably the 1999–2000 season NSL Grand Final when an all-time NSL record crowd of 43,157 fans saw Wollongong Wolves beat Glory on penalties following a 3–3 draw. The Force moved to nib Stadium prior to the 2010 Super 14 Season, this move brought an austere modernization to the ground increasing capacity from around 18,000 to 20,500 and increased corporate areas.
Perth Oval is scheduled to be redeveloped, starting in June 2012, both the southern and the eastern stand are to be replaced. This will leave the stadium with reduced capacity during the 2012–13 A-league season. It is to be completed by April 2013, with a capacity of 20,441. There are plans to add a cover on the southern stand at a later stage.
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