The Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre was opened in 1975 and was officially named the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Sports Centre in 1977 (colloquially known as QEII).
The venue is currently planned (at September 2024) to be redeveloped to host the athletics for the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane. However, this has been a subject of much controversy, with the stadium only intended to seat 40,000 spectators, which would make it the smallest for an Olympic Games in a century, since the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. This decision follows a cost blow out on the originally proposed venue of The Gabba and has been made as the most cost effective option providing a legacy, compared to the recommendation of an independent report which recommended the construction of a new venue. The upgrades are expected to cost $1 billion.
The venue was also known as ANZ Stadium from 1993 to 2003 under a naming rights deal.
The track has played host to two international events: the 1982 Commonwealth Games and the 2001 Goodwill Games. Further, it has hosted the Australian Championships on 11 occasions (1978, 1982, 1989, 1993, 2001, 2003, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2015), the most of any existing venue in Australia.
The track features a 10 lane Rekortan track and has seating capacity for 48,500 people, which will reduce to 40,000 for the Olympic Games and then to 14,000 post-Games. The track was last resurfaced in 2017, with the track colour changing from red to blue. The venue has the largest seating capacity of any athletics track in Australia, and was previously used extensively for rugby league.
The venue is used for events such as the annual Queensland Championships, Queensland All Schools Championships, GPS Championships and Little Athletics Championships, as well as on occasion for Athletics Queensland interclub competition. Other events take place at the neighbouring Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre – State Athletics Facility.
The venue is managed by Stadiums Queensland.
The venue was voted Australia’s favourite athletics track in 2024. In 2021 it was Australia’s second favourite athletics track, behind Hagenauer’s Reserve, Box Hill.
The track is a World Athletics Class 1 Certified Facility.
