{"id":257828,"date":"2025-11-02T15:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257828\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:34:16","slug":"perth-bears-announce-iconic-home-ahead-of-nrl-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257828\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth Bears announce iconic home ahead of NRL entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Perth Bears will be based at the famous WACA cricket ground as they prepare to become the NRL\u2019s newest club in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The news was announced on Sunday by the Hon. Rita Saffioti, Western Australia Deputy Premier and Minister for Sport and Recreation.<\/p>\n<p>While the WACA Ground itself will host the Perth Bears\u2019 administration and high-performance space, Saffioti explained the WA State Government will increase its existing WACA redevelopment investment by a further $12.9 million to create a new professional training field at the nearby Waterbank site in East Perth along the Swan River foreshore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe WACA Ground has driven high-performance sport in Western Australia for more than a century and hosting the inaugural Perth Bears team will be an exciting new chapter for this iconic venue,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wa.gov.au\/government\/media-statements\/Cook%20Labor%20Government\/WACA-Ground-and-Waterbank-site-to-be-first-home-of-Perth-Bears-20251102\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Minister Saffioti said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/news\/titans-hand-lachlan-ilias-fresh-start-gold-coast\/c45475baf3177975152a51f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Unfinished business&#8217;: Titans hand Lachlan Ilias a fresh start on the Gold Coast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs WA steps closer to NRL history, opening this space up to the Perth Bears will mean they have the high-quality training facilities they need to burst into the competition in 2027,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing elite sport into the heart of the city is not only a smart use of public space but delivers lasting benefits to the community and local sporting clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bears\u00a0home games will be played at Perth\u2019s only rectangular stadium, HBF Park, less than three kilometres from the WACA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perth Bears will be based at the famous WACA cricket ground as they prepare to become the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-257828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}