Boyer Oval at New Norfolk was built by the former Australian Newsprint Mills Limited (ANM) in 1945 and was built with a large amount of technical input from experts from the Victorian Football League (now Australian Football League).

It was built for the people of New Norfolk and the Derwent Valley to the same playing surface size as the Melbourne Cricket Ground and was intended to be used for Australian Rules football, soccer, cricket, cycling and athletics with a view to expansion in future years when needed.

The main grandstand at the ground is the L.W.Hepper Stand, named after New Norfolk president Les Hepper (1909–2009) who presided over the Eagles from 1957–1974, and was built in 1961 and for many years had a fearsome reputation amongst Tasmanian football fans for the highly partisan supporters that used to pack the stand each match.

In 1972, the New Norfolk District Football Club opened its own licensed clubrooms in the rear-carpark on Back River Road, approximately 200m behind the Queenstown end goal.

Today, the ground is continuing to be used by the New Norfolk District Football Club and Molesworth Cricket Club in their related competitions and has unfortunately been a magnet for vandalism in the town over the past several years and has fallen into a gradual state of disrepair due to a lack of funding to conduct repairs.