Shivaji Park will now be known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Park after the proposal for the renaming of the ground was presented and approved in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) general body meeting recently. The proposal was unanimously approved by all corporators.

Shivaji Park was opened to the public by the BMC in 1925. It was originally called Mahim Park. A proposal to name the ground Shivaji Park was approved on May 10, 1927, in the BMC. Then history took another turn, as 93 years after, a proposal for the re-renaming of Shivaji Park was tabled and approved.