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Govind Park is a multi-use
stadium A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...
in Ba,
Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
. It is currently used mostly for
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
matches and hosts the home matches of Ba F.C. The stadium holds 13,500 people. It is named after one of the former mayors of Ba town, ''Kishore Govind''. Govind Park has hosted football tournaments such as the ''Fiji Fact'', ''Battle of the Giants'' and ''Inter District Championship''. The stadium was officially opened on 17 July 1976 by the ex-president of Fiji Football Association, Manikam V. Pillay. In June 2011 it hosted the 2011 ''Kshatriya World Cup'', in which Nadi Khatri won by beating Men In Black Ba 2-0 in the final.


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