Sport & Stadiums
Match day is the deadline.
Sport AV has one immovable truth: the siren doesn't wait. Focus AV builds scoreboards, PA and big-screen systems that perform when the ground is full — proven from community clubs to the West Coast Eagles.
From the Eagles down
Technology that lifts the whole ground.
This is Mineral Resources Park — the West Coast Eagles' training and administration headquarters, and home ground of Focus AV's sport portfolio. Elite facilities and community clubs need the same things at different scales: scores people can read, announcements people can hear, and sponsors who can see exactly what they paid for.
Sport AV covers the whole precinct: the LED scoreboard and its scoring software, the PA that reaches the fence line without deafening the members' bar, screens through the clubrooms and function spaces, and the camera feed that turns a scoreboard into a replay screen.
We deliver it at every level — AFL headquarters, state sporting associations, suburban soccer clubs and regional shires — with the same engineering standards and the same one-team accountability.
Anatomy of a sporting precinct
Match day is a system.
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The whole room Built for game day
Fair-weather AV doesn't survive sport.
Stadium systems live outdoors, run by volunteers, judged by crowds and tested by weather — then asked to sell sponsorship on top. It's the harshest environment in commercial AV, and it exposes any shortcut taken on the way in.
Winning systems are engineered for it: sunlight-readable LED, PA that cuts through crowd noise without flattening the neighbours, scoring software a club volunteer runs one-handed, and structures certified for WA wind.
Focus AV delivers the full match-day stack — and the sponsor-revenue strategy that helps the club pay for it.
The match-day chain
Five links, one game day.
A modern match day runs on five connected systems: the scoreboard, the PA, ribbon and secondary screens, the camera and replay feed, and the control point that drives them all. Design them as one chain and a single operator runs the whole ground; buy them piecemeal over a decade and you inherit five controllers, five suppliers and a scramble every Saturday.
The scoreboard
The anchor of the chain — outdoor LED sized to the ground's sight-lines, scoring every code on the fixture, selling sponsors when the clock stops. Our LED scoreboards service covers types, costs and WA grant funding in depth.
PA & siren
Coverage-modelled loudspeakers that put announcements, music and the siren evenly across the ground — intelligible at the far pocket, civil at the fence line. The siren interlocks with the game clock, so time-on is one press, not two people counting.
Ribbon & secondary screens
LED ribbon along the fence or balcony, and repeater screens where the main board can't be seen — more sponsor inventory and no dead seats. The engineering is shared with our big LED screens work at arena scale.
Camera & replay
One well-placed camera turns the scoreboard into a replay screen and the club into a broadcaster — goals again on the big screen, presentations up close, and the game streamed to members who couldn't make it.
The control point
Everything above lands at one operator position — a bench-side tablet at a community ground, a dedicated room at a stadium. Our control room AV practice designs both ends of that scale.
Why the chain matters
Because match day is live. When the siren, clock, screen and PA are one designed system, the last-minute goal, the announcement and the replay happen in the right order, every time — without a volunteer juggling three remotes in the rain.
Club oval to arena bowl
Three scales. One architecture.
The match-day chain doesn't change between a suburban oval and a 15,000-seat arena — only the size of each link does. That's why the same Focus AV team credibly delivers all three levels: the design discipline transfers, and so do the lessons.
Community club
A scoreboard the ground can read, PA for announcements and the siren, and scoring from a phone at the boundary. Budget-led design, sponsor revenue built in, and grant-ready documentation — the Shire of Moora and Perth Soccer Club are this tier done properly.
State & elite facility
Training precincts and state association venues where broadcast, analysis and daily operations share the infrastructure — screens in the gym, PA across the ovals, media spaces inside. Mineral Resources Park for the West Coast Eagles is our benchmark here.
Arena & stadium
Bowl-scale LED, zoned audio and show control with redundancy at every layer, delivered around a live events calendar. Focus AV's LED work on RAC Arena — one of the most recognisable buildings in Perth — is this tier in public view.
Stadium & ground PA
Heard at the far pocket. Civil at the fence.
Good ground PA is a coverage-modelling exercise: loudspeakers aimed so sound lands evenly inside the venue and falls away fast outside it. Most complaints about sports-ground audio — spectators who can't hear, neighbours who hear too much — trace back to aiming and zoning, not broken speakers, which is why we model before we mount.
Coverage modelling
The ground is mapped and the loudspeaker layout simulated before anything is bought — even level across the seating and the hill, no dead pockets, no hot spots at the fence line.
Zones with jobs
The playing arena, clubrooms, canteen queue and changerooms each get their own level and source — the game call outside, the bar's own music inside, and the umpires' room spared both.
Siren & clock
The siren rides the same system, interlocked with the game clock and loud where the rules require — one press from the timekeeper's bench, consistent every quarter of every game.
Neighbour-friendly by design
Directional aiming and sensible levels keep sport on side with the street — the difference between a ground that hosts night games for decades and one that ends up in a council file.
A Saturday, end to end
Match day, minute by minute.
Here's what an integrated match-day system actually does across one Saturday — and why every link in the chain earns its place before the first bounce.
The screen wakes on schedule and runs the sponsor loop to arriving crowds. Music plays across the ground zones while the canteen and bar screens carry their own content. Nobody has touched anything yet.
Team lists go up on the big screen, the announcer's microphone is live across the arena zone, and the timekeeper logs into the scoring interface from a phone at the bench. A thirty-second job, because it was designed to be.
Clock, score and siren run as one system from one press. Every goal is on the screen before the crowd finishes celebrating it — the scoreboard keeping pace is what makes the ground feel professional.
Quarter and half time are the screen's earning hours: sponsor packages, junior results, club promotions and replays run automatically while the PA carries announcements — the content sold months ago plays itself.
Final scores hold on the screen for the photos, best-players and votes go up as they're announced, and the presentation is heard across the ground instead of shouted from the clubroom steps.
The function room takes over — highlights on the bar screens, audio for the speeches, and the big screen outside running a movie night fundraiser next month. The asset works long after the crowd goes home.
Reliability engineering
The siren doesn't wait.
Match-day systems earn trust one Saturday at a time, so we engineer for the day something goes wrong: spares on the shelf, fallbacks in the design, and a pre-season check that finds problems in March instead of round one.
Pre-season checks
Panels, amplifiers, sirens and software verified before the fixture starts — a service visit in the off-season beats a callout at quarter time.
Fallback paths
If the primary controller drops, scoring keeps running from a second device; if a screen zone fails, the score stays legible. Degradation is designed, not discovered.
Volunteer-proof control
The person on the controls changes every week, so the controls can't require a technician. Big buttons, per-sport layouts, phone-based scoring — trained at handover, re-learnable in minutes.
Rapid response
A WA-based team with spares for the systems we support. Saturday can't be rescheduled, and our support model is built around that fact.
From the field Grounds and courts, built for match day.
From community ovals to indoor courts, photographed by the crew on site.
Grounds like yours, delivered.
What we deliver
The full match-day stack.
LED scoreboards & big screens
Engineered outdoor LED with scoring, replays and sponsor content — the centrepiece asset. See our dedicated scoreboards service.
Stadium & ground PA
Coverage-modelled audio for announcements, sirens and atmosphere — intelligible in a full ground, neighbour-friendly outside it.
Scoring & timing systems
Sport-aware software, sirens, shot clocks and timing integration across codes.
Club room & function AV
The social side pays bills: bar screens, function audio and IPTV for the rooms that host sponsors.
Broadcast & streaming feeds
Camera positions, feeds and streaming for clubs putting their games online.
Season-proof support
Pre-season system checks and rapid response — because Saturday can't be rescheduled.
Proven in WA sport
From the Eagles down the grades.
- West Coast Eagles
- RAC Arena
- Volleyball WA
- Perth Soccer Club
- Shire of Moora
- School & community grounds
Proof
Delivered. Documented.
The whole room
One design. One schedule. One accountable partner.
Straight answers.
Can a community club afford this?
Scaled right, yes — community scoreboard-and-PA packages are a fraction of stadium spend, and sponsor packages routinely cover a large share. We'll design to the club's budget and its revenue plan, not to a catalogue.
Our PA annoys the neighbours but the crowd can't hear it — why?
Coverage design: badly aimed long-throw speakers spill sound outside the ground while leaving dead zones inside. Modelling, re-aiming and zoning fix it — usually with the hardware count you already own plus targeted additions.
Can the screen earn sponsorship money?
That's half its job: sponsor loops, naming rights and match-day activations. We design the content workflow so selling screen time is easy — many clubs recoup a serious portion of the capital within seasons.
Do you handle grants and tender requirements?
We provide the technical specifications, drawings and compliance documentation that grant applications and council tenders demand — a familiar path for community and government-funded projects. In WA, CSRFF grants routinely fund up to a third of eligible community sport infrastructure, scoreboards and PA included.
What AV does a sports ground actually need for match day?
Five connected systems: a scoreboard or big screen the whole ground can read, a PA that carries announcements and the siren, ribbon or secondary screens where sight-lines demand them, a camera feed for replays and streaming, and one control point that runs the lot. Smaller grounds simply run smaller versions of the same chain — the architecture doesn't change, only the scale.
Can the scoreboard, PA and screens all run from one place?
Yes — that's the point of designing them together. One operator position, wired or wireless, drives scores, sponsor content, announcements, sirens and replays, with scoring itself controllable from a phone at the boundary. Buy the systems separately over five years and you get five controllers; design the chain once and you get one.
How do we upgrade without missing a season?
We stage works in the off-season and commission before round one — structural and screen work first, then audio and control, then a full match-day rehearsal with your volunteers. Where a venue hosts summer and winter codes back to back, we plan the cutover around the fixture gap and keep a fallback running until the new system has called a real game.
Upgrading the ground? Meet us at the fence line.
We'll assess the site, model the sound, talk sponsors — and give the committee a plan worth voting for.