COLLINGWOOD wants to play at Victoria Park again.

The Magpies' spiritual home is completely different now to when the club lost its final game there to the Brisbane Lions in 1999.

But, as the Pies prepare to celebrate their 125th anniversary in 2017, president Eddie McGuire wants to play a pre-season match on the historic oval.

"We want to play a NAB Challenge game at Victoria Park," McGuire told members at a forum this week.

The venue has been transformed, and is now home to a public park, but the oval has again hosted VFL matches since 2010.

The local council is the main hurdle, with the League already giving the plan a verbal OK.

"We have to get it through the council," McGuire said.

"But the AFL have already given us permission to move forward on it.

"If you haven’t been down to Victoria Park lately, go down and have a look at what we've been able to do."

Collingwood, which was formed in 1892, was based at Victoria Park, for more than a century before relocating its training base to a state of the art facility in Melbourne's Olympic Park precinct.