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Western Sydney University, formerly the University of Western Sydney, is an Australian multi-campus public research university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university in its current form was founded in 1989 as a federated network university with an amalgamation between the Nepean College of Advanced ...
Western Sydney Stadium, commercially known as CommBank Stadium, is a multi-purpose rectangular stadium in Parramatta, a satellite city approximately 24 km (15 mi) west of Sydney CBD. It replaced the demolished Parramatta Stadium (1986) which in turn was built on the site of the old Cumberland Oval, home ground to the Parramatta Eels since 1947.
Greater Western Sydney (GWS) is a large region of the metropolitan area of Greater Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia that generally embraces the north-west, south-west, central-west, far western and the Blue Mountains sub-regions within Sydney's metropolitan area and encompasses 11 local government areas: Blacktown, Blue Mountains, Camden, Campbelltown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Hawkesbury ...
The club with the highest home attendance of all Australian soccer clubs is the Western Sydney Wanderers, with 61,880 attendance at ANZ Stadium against rivals Sydney FC on 8 October 2016. Most domestic league Grand Finals have been played at grounds not designated as usual home ground for the club that hosts the Grand Final, the highest in that ...
Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport [3] ( IATA: WSI, ICAO: YSWS ), also known as Western Sydney Airport or Badgerys Creek Airport, is an international airport under construction within the suburbs of Luddenham and Badgerys Creek, New South Wales, Australia. The site was officially designated by the Federal Government on 15 ...
South Western Sydney. Macarthur. Holsworthy. South Western Sydney is a region of the metropolitan area in southwest Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the predominantly working class area of Greater Western Sydney. The region lies in the Cumberland Plain .
The idea of an AFL team from western Sydney originated from the AFL's plans in 1999 to make the North Melbourne Football Club Sydney's second team. Following the momentum of the relocated Swans Grand Final appearance, the AFL had backed the move for North Melbourne, a club which had then previously gained market exposure by defeating the Swans in their first re-location Grand Final appearance ...
— FFA CEO Ben Buckley on the prospect of a club, September 2009. The Western Sydney region was regarded as a potential location for one of the founding A-League clubs in 2005, originally intended to be the base for Sydney FC. When Sydney FC put forward their bid to participate in the inaugural A-League season, Football NSW (which backed the bid) desired for the club's home ground to be ...