Park Island is the largest sports complex in Napier,

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. It hosts clubs and facilities for

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(soccer), cricket, hockey, netball and rugby union. It includes Bluewater Stadium, a

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that has a capacity of 5,000 people and opened in 1985. The stadium is used mostly for football 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 League. Club history The team was founded in 1973 by the merger of Napier Rovers and Napier City. Napier City Rovers have won New Zealand's premier ...

and

Hawke's Bay United Hawke's Bay United was a professional Association football club based in Napier, New Zealand, Napier, New Zealand. HB United most recently played in the New Zealand Football Championship, ISPS Handa Premiership – a semi-professional franc ...

. 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 World Rugby, International Rugby Board (IRB) selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japa ...

. Areas around the park were rezoned in 2016 and 2017 to build a new high-performance rugby facility.

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Park Island
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