School grounds and empty land on TAFE campuses would be used to feed Melbourne’s insatiable appetite for new sporting grounds under a new Victorian Liberals election promise.

Opposition Leader Matthew Guy said the supply of sports grounds and facilities, especially for junior clubs, was way behind the city’s rampant population growth and he pledged on Sunday to spend $195 million upgrading sporting amenities.

Opposition Leader Matthew Guy at a soccer clinic on Sunday. Credit:Luis Ascui

The centrepiece of the promise is a $89 million “Grassroots Sport Fund” to benefit suburban and country areas, with Mr Guy also saying he would “get back in control of population growth” by spending $30 million on new sporting Infrastructure in a “Growing Communities Fund.”