Eltham Leisure Centre is at 40 Brougham Street, Eltham 3095, and has two indoor multi sport courts used for basketball, along with a cafe, car parking and dedicated wheelchair seating at the courts. The Eltham Wildcats, the large local club, list their own address as 27 Simms Road, Montmorency, so check your fixture.
Written by Cameron James, founder and head coach at Liddicoat Basketball. Over a decade coaching junior basketball in Melbourne, including at Big V level, and rep teams from Under 12s through to Under 18s.
Last updated September 2026.
This is the first thing to sort out, because it's where families lose a Saturday morning. Eltham Leisure Centre, the council run centre with the pool and the gym, is at 40 Brougham Street, Eltham 3095. The Eltham Wildcats, the large local basketball club, publish their own address as 27 Simms Road, Montmorency 3094.
They're two different buildings in two different suburbs. If your child plays for the Wildcats, don't assume the game is at the leisure centre just because the club has Eltham in its name, and don't assume the reverse either.
The EDJBA, which fixtures junior games across the north east, lists a five court stadium at Montmorency Secondary College on Simms Road, Montmorency. Read the venue name on your fixture and match it to the street, not to the word Eltham.
Nillumbik Leisure describes two indoor multi sport courts at the centre, used for badminton, basketball, netball and volleyball. Casual basketball shooting is available at five dollars per person per session when the courts aren't booked, which is a cheap way to get a child on a real court outside game day.
Nillumbik Shire Council lists a cafe at the centre, indoor and outdoor, and describes a double door entrance into the basketball courts with dedicated wheelchair seating.
The centre's opening hours are long, 5:30am to 10pm Monday to Friday and 7am to 8pm on weekends, because it's a full leisure centre rather than a basketball only stadium. Your game time still comes from the fixture, not the building hours.
Council lists parking at the centre, including six accessible car spaces. For a two court venue attached to a pool and a gym, that shared car park is the thing to be aware of: swimmers, gym members and basketball families are all using the same spaces on a Saturday morning.
Arrive a little early rather than exactly on time, particularly in winter when the pool is busy. It's not a difficult car park, but it's a shared one.
Accessibility is well covered here compared with most basketball venues. Council lists ramp access, disability change rooms and toilets and lift access to the upper floors, and Nillumbik Leisure describes a fully accessible change room with a ceiling track hoist system, an adult size change table, a peninsula toilet, a shower and an automatic door. If that matters to your family, this is one of the better venues in Melbourne's north east.
The Eltham Wildcats are the dominant basketball club in this area. The club dates back to 1965, and describes itself as having more than 7,000 community members, around 3,000 junior players, roughly 1,200 senior players and about 600 coaches, which makes it one of the largest clubs of any kind in Melbourne's north east.
The club runs junior and senior domestic competitions, representative teams, an NBL1 South program and Big V Youth League teams. For a family starting out, junior domestic is the entry point.
With 3,000 juniors on the books, games are spread across multiple venues. That's not a criticism of the club, it's simple arithmetic, and it's why the fixture matters more here than at a small association with a single home stadium.
Two courts is about as gentle an introduction to junior basketball as Melbourne offers. The room is small, the noise is manageable and you can see everything from one spot, which suits a child who finds big stadiums hard.
Because the leisure centre is a general community facility rather than a basketball headquarters, don't expect a big basketball canteen operation or team merchandise. There's a cafe, and that's the level to set your expectations at.
If your child is new and nervous, the five dollar casual shooting session is worth using once before the season starts. Standing on the actual floor they'll play on, with nobody watching, takes a surprising amount of the edge off the first real game.
Check three things on the fixture: the venue name, the street address and the court number. In this part of Melbourne those three things do more work than anywhere else in the state, because the club, the leisure centre and the secondary college stadium all sit within a few kilometres of each other and all get called Eltham in conversation.
Put the actual street address into the maps app, never the club name. Club names route you to the club's registered office, which isn't always where the game is.
And if you're still unsure on a Saturday morning, ring the club rather than guessing. Ten minutes of certainty beats a wrong turn with a kid in a uniform in the back seat.
40 Brougham Street, Eltham 3095. It has two indoor multi sport courts used for basketball, plus a cafe and parking.
The Wildcats publish their own address as 27 Simms Road, Montmorency 3094, which is a different building in a different suburb. Always check the venue on your fixture.
Yes. Casual basketball shooting is listed at five dollars per person per session when the courts aren't booked.
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