The Serowe Stadium is 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 ...

located in the town of

Serowe Serowe (population approximately 60,000) is an urban village in Botswana's Central District. A trade and commercial centre, it is Botswana's third largest village. Serowe has played an important role in Botswana's history, as capital for the Bama ...

Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...

. It is a part of the Serowe Sports Complex, a P27 Million integrated-sports project, which was built in 2002 and officially opened in 2003. The Stadium has a capacity of 6,000 spectators. The main stadium has a football pitch, with an athletics running track surrounding the pitch. Inside the centre-piece there are also facilities for high-jump, long-jump, pole vault and other athletics sports. Outside the stadium, but within the same complex, there are numerous netball, volleyball, softball and tennis courts. The centre has provided to be a great tool to local community, providing a standard sporting facility. It has also been proved to become a main training centre for many of the country's national athletes and a base camp for the national teams, reducing the burden on the

National Stadium Many countries have a national sport stadium, which typically serves as the primary or exclusive home for one or more of a country's national representative sports teams. The term is most often used in reference to an association football stadiu ...

, which is currently the country's only other major sports complex.

History

In mid-2007, structural defects arose around the sports complex, resulting in a possibility of relocating the whole facility. There have been calls from numerous quarters for the relocation of the facility because of huge cracks on the playing courts and office buildings. Another major factor was that the stadium would already have to pay P5 million to rehabilitate the soil, due to it being unsuitable for the foundations. However, plans have since been put on hold due to an estimated cost of P20 million for the first phase of the relocation.http://www.gov.bw/cgi-bin/news.cgi?d=20070913&i=Serowe_multi-million_stadium_to_be_relocated

References

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