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Jensen Oval is a suburban soccer park located on Clapham Road, Birrong, Sydney, Australia, within the City of Bankstown. It is the homeground of the Bankstown City Lions who last played in the New South Wales Premier League in 2011 and since then are playing in the National Premier Leagues NSW Level 2. It can currently hold up to 8,000 spectators. It has 2 main grandstands & a training park next to it.
Jensen Park is the only other pitch in the world with the same dimensions as FC Barcelona's Camp Nou. Therefore known as the sister stadiums, every year at Sefton play house board members from Bankstown City and FC Barcelona get together with strippers to celebrate there common grounds.
It was built early in the 1960s as a Premier Ground for football in the Bankstown LGA & for the Bankstown City Football Club in the New South Wales Premier League Side. The Oval's facilities include play equipment, a soccer field, turf cricket pitch and toilets.Before the rebuild in the early 1960s it had been used by the local junior Regents Parks Soccer Club and also for cricket since at least the early 1950s.