Suncorp Stadium will get major upgrades in the lead-up to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with Premier David Crisafulli promising more seats would be built at the “spiritual home of rugby league”.

Upgrades to the 52,500-capacity stadium had been mooted by the current and former state governments.

Fans flood the field at Suncorp Stadium a day after the 2025 NRL and NRLW grand finals before the teams arrived. Credit: Julius Dennis

Major works were done at Suncorp Stadium in 2011 to repair significant flood damage, but the venue has not been significantly upgraded in 20 years.

“We do need to give that grand, magnificent rugby league stadium – the spiritual home of rugby league – an upgrade,” Crisafulli told Nine on Tuesday.

“Part of that should be increasing the capa

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