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Garden Park is a multi-use stadium in Kitwe, Zambia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home for Kitwe United Football Club. [1] [2] The stadium holds 10,000 people.

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References

  1. "Zambia - Kitwe United - Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  2. sports (2013-06-21). "Zambia : Garden Park and Lechwe picked as Zambia training grounds". LusakaTimes.com. Retrieved 2019-01-23.

Coordinates: 12°47′29″S28°13′11″E / 12.79139°S 28.21972°E / -12.79139; 28.21972