The Queenstown Events Centre is an impressive multi-purpose indoor sports and events complex only five minutes drive from central Queenstown and adjacent to the Queenstown International Airport. The venue is extremely flexible, offering an extensive range of function and meeting room facilities, which can be adapted to meet the needs of events of any size - concerts, events, gala dinners, conferences, trade shows, private functions and sports & recreation. Uninterrupted vistas to Coronet Peak, The Crown Range and The Remarkables provide the ideal setting and ample free parking is available on site. The Centres events management team is dedicated to ensuring your event, whatever the magnitude, is an enjoyable, successful experience for all involved. Hirers of the Centre can request access to any of the facilities on site. The Queenstown Events Centre is also ideal as a team training facility.
The Queenstown Events Centre is a complex of outdoor and indoor venues. The main oval has a capacity of 19,000 and includes seating for 6,000. Temporary grandstands with 13,000 seats are usually erected for large events. The Queenstown Events Centre plays host to International Cricket and Rugby with the Highlanders playing occasional Super Rugby games at the venue.
History
Opened in 1997, the venue is located on Queenstown Lakes District Council–owned land and is a multi-purpose indoor and outdoor venue. The Stadium has a capacity of 19,000 spectators with 6,000 permanent seating and normally 13,000 temporary called in.
Regarded as one of the most spectacular international cricket venues in the world, the ground is located between the foot of the Remarkables and the shores of Lake Wakatipu with Queenstown International Airport's Runway threshold nearby affording amazing views of large aircraft taking off and landing. The venue hosts regular international cricket matches, Highlanders rugby games, trade shows, exhibitions, seminars and concerts. It is also a "home ground" for Otago Cricket.
On 1 January 2014, at the Queenstown Events Centre New Zealand Black Caps' Corey Anderson broke Shahid Afridi's 17-year-old record of the fastest ODI hundred by one ball, scoring his in 36 balls. He eventually ended with an unbeaten 131 that featured 14 sixes and 6 fours Along with Jesse Ryder, he helped New Zealand set the team record for the most sixes in an ODI innings.
