Kilsyth Basketball lists the Kilsyth Sports Centre at 115 Liverpool Road, Kilsyth 3137, with six courts. Yarra Ranges Council lists a kiosk, change rooms, seating, toilets and accessible facilities, and names it as the home of the NBL1 Kilsyth Cobras. The association also plays at Lilydale, Croydon and Chirnside Park.
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.
Kilsyth Basketball lists its main venue as Kilsyth Sports Centre, 115 Liverpool Road, Kilsyth 3137. Yarra Ranges Council, which owns the centre, lists it at 123 Liverpool Road, Kilsyth 3137.
This isn't worth losing sleep over. It's the same complex on the same stretch of Liverpool Road, and either number will put your car within sight of the building. But it's exactly the kind of thing that makes a first time visitor think they've the wrong place, so now you know.
Use the association's own listing, 115 Liverpool Road, as the one you type in. It's the number the association gives its own members.
Kilsyth Basketball lists six courts at the centre. Yarra Ranges Council lists a kiosk, change rooms, seating, toilets, and describes the venue as accessible.
Six courts is a comfortable middle size. It's big enough that you need to check your court number, small enough that you can walk the whole room in under a minute. For a family moving up from a two court school hall, this is a step up in noise but not an overwhelming one.
Casual shooting is available at five dollars per person, which is useful for a child who wants an extra half hour on a court outside their scheduled training.
Kilsyth Basketball manages the centre and uses it for weekly domestic and representative competition, Kilsyth Cobras training and games, netball and school groups. The Cobras are the association's NBL1 program.
The junior domestic competition draws clubs from across the Yarra Ranges and the outer east, with the association describing clubs operating from Wandin, Lilydale, Ringwood, Bayswater and everywhere in between. Junior domestic clubs are independently run, so registrations, team allocation, training times and training venues are handled by the club rather than by the association.
That independence is normal in Victorian junior basketball and it catches new parents out. If you've a question about which team your child is in or where they train, the club is who you ring, not the stadium.
Kilsyth Basketball's venue list covers four sites. Kilsyth Sports Centre at 115 Liverpool Road, Kilsyth. Lilydale Basketball Stadium at 26 Hutchinson Street, Lilydale. Melba Basketball Stadium at 15 Brentnall Road, Croydon. Oxley Basketball Stadium on Old Melbourne Road, Chirnside Park.
Games are spread across those venues plus others in the area, so read your fixture rather than defaulting to Kilsyth. Hutchinson Street in Lilydale and Brentnall Road in Croydon aren't close to each other, and a late realisation on a Saturday morning is a long drive.
Senior competition is also spread out. The association lists men's games on Monday, Tuesday and Sunday evenings, women's on Thursday evenings at Kilsyth and Lilydale, and mixed on Sunday evenings at Kilsyth and Lilydale.
Kilsyth runs the standard two season structure. The winter season runs through school terms two and three, including the school holidays in between, and the summer season runs from term four into term one, with no games over the Christmas and New Year break.
That Christmas gap is worth putting in the family calendar early. Plenty of parents assume basketball stops for the whole of summer or runs straight through, and it does neither.
The association also runs an after school competition open to primary schools in the Kilsyth and Mountain District area, a Wednesday morning women's daytime competition with free childcare, and wheelchair basketball.
Give yourself a buffer on a Saturday morning. Six courts running back to back generates a steady stream of cars arriving and leaving on the hour, and the busiest moment of the day is always the few minutes either side of a game finishing.
There's a kiosk, so you can buy something, but the usual advice applies: feed your child before the game, not in the ten minutes before tip off.
If your child is new, walk in with them, find the court, and find the coach before you sit down. Coaches in junior domestic are usually volunteer parents from your own club, and introducing yourself in week one makes the whole season easier.
Kilsyth Basketball lists the Kilsyth Sports Centre at 115 Liverpool Road, Kilsyth 3137. Yarra Ranges Council lists the same centre at 123 Liverpool Road. It's the same complex.
Kilsyth Basketball lists six courts at the centre.
Lilydale Basketball Stadium at 26 Hutchinson Street Lilydale, Melba Basketball Stadium at 15 Brentnall Road Croydon, and Oxley Basketball Stadium on Old Melbourne Road, Chirnside Park.
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Facts on this page were compiled from the official sources below and written up in our own words. Dates, fees and venues change every season, so confirm anything you are relying on with the association directly.
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