Govind Park
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Govind Park is a multi-use stadium
Stadium
A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...

 in Ba
Ba (town)
Ba is a town in Fiji, 37 kilometres from Lautoka and 62 kilometres from Nadi, inland from the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. Covering an area of 327 square kilometres, it had a population of 14,596 at the 1996 census. The town is built on the banks of the Ba River, after which it is...

, Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

. It is currently used mostly for football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 matches and hosts the home matches of Ba FC. The stadium holds 13,500 people.
It is one of the best stadium in the Fiji Islands. Govind Park has hosted football tournaments such as Fiji Fact, Battle Of The Giants and Inter district championship. Govind Park is named after one of the former mayors of Ba town Mr Kishore Govind.The stadium was officially opened on 17th July 1976 by the ex-president of Fiji Football Association, Mr Manikam V. Pillay. Govind Park has also hosted many lnternational matches with teams from Asia, Australia and New Zealand, South Pacific and many other contients. In June 2011, it hosted the 2011 Kshatriya World cup, in which Nadi khatri won by beating the host Men-In-Black Ba 2-0 in the final.
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