Birchmount Stadium

About

Birchmount Stadium is a multi-purpose outdoor sports facility in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Situated in Birchmount Park, it is located near Kingston Road and Birchmount Road in the former city of Scarborough. Its original capacity was 6,345, and it was built for what was then the Borough of Scarborough.

The stadium plays host to many amateur sporting events including football, soccer, rugby league and athletics. It most recently played host to the opening round of Canada Rugby League's Ontario conference. It played host to the University of Toronto's Varsity Blues Football team in 2002 and 2006 while their Varsity Stadium was being demolished and rebuilt.

It also previously played host to the Metro Lions. It also serves as the primary stadium for the annual Robbie International Soccer Tournament, which bills itself as "the world's largest annual charitable youth soccer tournament." The Canadian band Barenaked Ladies notably name-dropped the stadium and the tournament at the end of their 1998 #1 hit, "One Week", singing "Birchmount Stadium, home of the Robbie" as the song's closing line. The east grandstand of the stadium was demolished in the spring of 2006, reducing seating capacity...