Frankston Park

{{Short description|Australian football ground}}

{{Use Australian English|date=January 2018}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

{{Infobox venue

| stadium_name = Frankston Park

| nickname = Kinetic Stadium

| image = Frankston Park wide.jpg

| image_size = 300px

| location = Frankston, Victoria

| coordinates = {{coord|38|8|32|S|145|7|13|E|display=it}}

| broke_ground =

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| closed =

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| owner = Frankston City Council

| operator = Frankston Football Club

| surface = Grass

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| dimensions = 185m × 110m

| architect =

| tenants = Frankston Football Club (PFA, MPFL, VFL 1887-)
Hawthorn Football Club (AFLW 2022-)
Melbourne Rising (NRC) (2015–2019)

| former_names = Frankston Park
Kars Street Oval
Skybus Stadium

| seating_capacity = 5,000 (1000 seated){{cite web|title=Frankston Park|url=http://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/stadiums.php?id=51|website=austadiums.com|publisher=Austadiums|access-date=25 September 2015}}

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Frankston Park, known commercially as Kinetic Stadium, is a suburban Australian rules football ground located in Frankston, Victoria, in Australia. It is home to the Frankston Football Club, which plays in the Victorian Football League.

Frankston Park is noted for the unusually long and narrow dimensions of its playing surface.{{cite web|url=http://www.boxhillhawks.com.au/news-read.aspx?NewsId=522|title=Senior team match report – Round 17|author=Daniel Duffy|date=10 August 2009|access-date=24 March 2014}} It is also a rare example of a top municipal football ground which has, for most of its history, not been used for cricket during the summer months. In the early 1920s, the council determined that it preferred to leave the ground as a public space during summer and to not compromise the surface by installing cricket pitches. Since that time, Jubilee Park has been the district's primary cricket venue.{{cite news|newspaper=Frankston and Somerville Standard|publication-place=Frankston, VIC|date=6 June 1923|page=4|title=Frankston Cricketers and the park}}

In 2008, the St Kilda Football Club had planned to move its primary training base from Moorabbin Oval to Frankston Park and to re-develop it into a top class training venue for the club; but these plans fell through due to high cost, and the club instead developed and moved to Belvedere Park in nearby Seaford.{{cite web|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/2008-09-17/saints-to-move-training-base-to-seaford-in-2010|title=Saints to move training base to Seaford in 2010|date=17 September 2008|access-date=24 March 2014|author=Matt Burgan}}