Park Island is the largest sports complex in
Napier Napier may refer to:
People
* Napier (surname), including a list of people with that name
* Napier baronets, five baronetcies and lists of the title holders
Given name
* Napier Shaw (1854–1945), British meteorologist
* Napier Waller (1893–19 ...
,
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
. It hosts clubs and facilities for
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
(soccer), cricket, hockey, netball and rugby union. It includes Bluewater Stadium, a
multi-purpose stadium
A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy tha ...
that has a capacity of 5,000 people and opened in 1985. The stadium is used mostly for soccer matches and is the home stadium of
Napier City Rovers
Napier City Rovers is a football team based in Napier, New Zealand, competing in the Central Premier League.
Club history
The team was founded in 1973 via a merger of Napier Rovers and Napier City.
Napier City Rovers have won New Zealand's p ...
and
Hawke's Bay United. It also served as a training venue for teams in the
2011 Rugby World Cup
The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board (IRB) selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Af ...
.
External links
Park Island Napier City Council
1985 establishments in New Zealand
Association football venues in New Zealand
Buildings and structures in Napier, New Zealand
Sport in Napier, New Zealand
Multi-purpose stadiums in New Zealand
Sports venues in the Hawke's Bay Region
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