Location
Located in Salt Lake City, 10 km from Kolkata city center, Salt
Lake Stadium is the largest stadium in Asia.
About Salt Lake Stadium
» Seating Capacity - 1,20,000 persons
» Stadium Cost - 34.58 crores.
A newly constructed Salt lake stadium, also known as Yuba Bharti
Krirangan is also the largest stadium in Asia which can house more
than one lakh spectators.The total covered area of 76.40 acres, Salt
Lake Stadium was inaugurated in January, 1984. The salient features
of the stadium are unique Synthetic track for atheletic meet,
electronic scoreboard, main football arena measuring 105M *70M,
elevators for diagnitaries along with VIP/VVIP enclosure, peripheral
floodlighting arrangement from the roof-top, A.C. VIP rest room and
Conference Hall. Other features of the stadium are also commentary
boxes for A.I.R. and T.V. along with several platforms for T.V.
Cameras, Press Boxes, dormitories and A.C. rooms, player's changing
rooms, practice grounds for football, cricket and khokho, volleyball
field and an ultra-medium gymnasium. The Stadium has its own water
arrangements and stand by dicsel generation sets.
The excellent arrangement of floodlight which illumines the stadium
has 624 bulbs of 2 k.wt. each and two electronic scoreboards
consists 36,000 bulbs of 25 watt each. The four underground
reservors have unique fire-fighting arangements with a capacity of
10,000 gallons. The architectural and structural design of the
stadium had been done by the Joint Consultants viz., M/S. Ballardie,
Thompson & Matthews Pvt. Ltd. and M/S. H.K. Sen &
Associates- both from Kolkata, West Bengal. The track was prepared
by Reckortan Tartan Track, Germany. The electronic scoreboards were
supplied by Electro Impex of Hungary.
As its inauguration in January, 1884 with the Jawaharlal Nehru
International Gold Cup Socer Tournament, the Salt Lake Stadium has
hosted several important international tournaments or matches such
as The Pre-World Cup Tournament in 1985, Super-Soccers in 1986,
1989, 1991 and 1994, 3rd S.A.F. games in 1987, U.S.S.R. Festival in
1988, Charminar Challenger Trophy in 1992, Jawaharlal Nehru
International Gold Cup in 1995.
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