The Otago Rugby Supporters Club has found a new home and hopes membership will increase in its base at Forsyth Barr Stadium.
The club moved from is Carisbrook base early last year after rugby games moved to the stadium.
The club has been temporarily based at the Cadbury social club rooms in Castle St. Club president Irene Todd said those rooms had been good but it was always only going to be temporary, and the intention was to get a venue in the stadium or as near as possible inside it.
The club had secured a lease with Dunedin Venues Management Ltd to have a room in the south stand at Forsyth Barr Stadium.
The new club room would be situated on floor 2A, next to the Otago Rugby Football Union's offices.
The new room would be open this Friday night when Otago took on Manawatu.
Todd said DVML chief executive Darren Burden had been very helpful in getting the club into the stadium.
Membership of the supporters club has dropped since the halcyon days of the later 1990s and now stands at about 80 members. The club once had 900 members.
Todd said with the club moving from Carisbrook, many people had drifted away, and it was struggling to get new members.
She hoped the new clubroom would entice people back as it was in the stadium and not too hard for people to get there, both before and after a game.
The club had a lot of memorabilia which had been in storage since leaving Carisbrook but would now be brought out to display in the new club room.
The club had a two-year lease on the room with a right of renewal. She said the lease was on favourable terms.
The room will have a bar, and food will also be available.
