{"id":577049,"date":"2026-03-31T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577049\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:58:08","slug":"marvel-stadium-boss-holds-out-hope-of-hosting-afl-final-in-near-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577049\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Stadium boss &#8216;holds out hope&#8217; of hosting AFL final in near future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions have been raised over where Melbourne finals will be held in week two of the AFL finals series, with the MCG hosting an NFL game on that weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Marvel Stadium boss Scott Fitzgerald joined Wide World of Sports and spoke about the possibility of the stadium hosting an AFL final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hold out hope of one day hosting a final here,\u201d Fitzgerald said on Wide World of Sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to listen to FULL INTERVIEW with Scott Fitzgerald<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image: iStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Questions have been raised over where Melbourne finals will be held in week two of the AFL finals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-577049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-football-featured","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577049","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=577049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}