Esther Shiner Stadium, Municipal stadium in North York, Toronto, Canada.
Esther Shiner Stadium is a multi-purpose outdoor facility at the north-west corner of Bathurst Street and Finch Avenue West in the former city of North York, Toronto. It holds 3,000 spectators and has an artificial playing surface and a running track, installed when the venue reopened on September 15, 2005.
Esther Shiner Stadium was built in June 1984 as North York Civic Stadium. In 1988 it was renamed in honour of Esther Shiner, a former City of North York councillor. The stadium closed for refurbishment in 2004 and reopened on 15 September 2005 with a new artificial playing surface and a running track.
The stadium hosts Canadian football, soccer and athletics, and has staged most CPSL/CSL Championship finals, including 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2014. Today North Toronto Nitros of League1 Ontario and FC Vorkuta of the Canadian Soccer League play their home matches here.
The stadium is located at Bathurst Street and Finch Avenue West and is easy to reach. Visitors can navigate to the site using public transit and look for the main street intersections to find it.
York University's football team played its home games here from the 1980s until 1995, when a field was built on campus. The ground was first called North York Civic Stadium and took its present name in 1988, four years after opening.
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