Monarch Park Stadium is a

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, Canada. It is located near the intersection of Hanson Street and Coxwell Avenue next to Monarch Park Collegiate. Monarch Park Stadium is used mostly for amateur

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, and

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principally by the

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. Built in 1964, the stadium replaced baseball fields that existed before the school was built in the 1940s. Its capacity is 5,000 with a grandstand located on the south side of the field. A track circles around the field. In early 2012, the TDSB entered into a long-term partnership agreement with Razor Management Inc. (RMI) to redevelop Monarch Park Stadium. RMI will be spending $5 million to upgrade the facilities, which will see an inflatable dome cover at the site for use each year from October to April. and surface replaced. The

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soccer team played its home games at the facility, but lost their permit to use the facility in 2015. The stadium was also used as the location for

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's "I'm Still Your Fag"

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. In May 2018,

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side,

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, played one game at Monarch Park. The weekday morning game on May 9 drew the largest attendance in Toronto FC II's history (4,100). Monarch Park was one of three temporary homes for TFC II (along with

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and Rochester's

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) during the first half of the 2018 season while the team awaited renovations on their new home at

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. A second game had been tentatively scheduled for Monarch Park - it was later moved twice, first to BMO Field and later to their opponents' home venue (Charlotte's Sportsplex at Matthews).

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