Talobilla Park Keeps Growing as a Peninsula Sports Hub in Kippa-Ring

Talobilla Park’s Next Chapter Takes Shape at Kippa-Ring

Talobilla Park is changing again.

A new softball clubhouse is under construction at Kippa-Ring, more work on the park’s softball facilities is planned, and next April international teams will arrive to train ahead of the 2027 WBSC Women’s Softball World Cup Finals.

It is the latest investment in a place that has gradually become one of the Redcliffe Peninsula’s biggest concentrations of community sport.

Across Talobilla today are baseball, rugby league, football and softball facilities. Council records four baseball fields, four rugby league fields, three soccer fields and up to eight softball diamonds, with nine sporting and community organisations holding leases or permits across the precinct.

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The timetable has shifted

The new home of Redcliffe Leagues Softball Association is one project that has taken longer to get moving than first expected.

When news of the $4.8 million replacement clubhouse was reported in April 2025, construction was expected to start around the middle of that year and run for about 12 months.

Instead, temporary facilities began arriving in November, ahead of demolition of the old clubhouse. Council awarded Apollo Property Group the $4,809,106 construction contract on 10 November 2025.

The Australian Government is contributing $2,440,500 through the Thriving Suburbs Program, with City of Moreton Bay funding the balance. The replacement includes change rooms, a clubroom, kitchen and supporting facilities for an association with hundreds of members.

Council’s tender register now puts the expected completion date at 5 June 2027. That means the clubhouse will still be under construction when international softball arrives on the Peninsula two months earlier.

Talobilla’s World Cup role has changed

Eight international teams will be on the Redcliffe Peninsula from 5 to 11 April for the WBSC Women’s Softball World Cup Finals.

Talobilla was originally announced as the competition venue, but that changed in May when Softball Australia confirmed the tournament matches would instead be played at Kayo Stadium.

The Kippa-Ring fields remain part of the event as the official training and warm-up venue for the competing teams.

Council’s 2026–27 Budget also provides for further work on Talobilla’s softball facilities in preparation for the tournament. That investment is separate from the clubhouse, although the published budget material does not spell out the full scope or cost of those additional works.

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An idea that goes back to the 1990s

There is an older thread running through all this.

In the early 1990s, long before a softball World Cup was on the agenda, Redcliffe City Council had already decided what it wanted Talobilla to become. A parks strategy set an objective for 1992–93 to develop the park into a “focal formal sports area” serving sporting organisations across Redcliffe.

The transformation came gradually rather than through one big redevelopment. Softball established its current base at Talobilla in 1998, while the Peninsula Padres moved there in 2004–05. Rugby league and football also became part of a sporting precinct that continued to fill out as the Peninsula grew.

That process has never really stopped. In November 2025, Council granted the Padres a new 10-year lease as plans progressed for a replacement district-level baseball clubhouse. The club now has more than 400 players.

The construction happening around Talobilla today is another piece of a plan that has been taking shape for more than 30 years. There has been no single transformation and no grand unveiling — just successive generations of fields, clubs and facilities building on what was already there.

Next April will bring something new. While the World Cup matches will be down the road at Kayo Stadium, the eight international teams will prepare for them on the same Kippa-Ring fields used week after week by local players.

Published 6-September-2026