Eden Gardens
Kolkata, India
68,000
recorded capacity
recorded as Current
1 block = 1,000 placesoutline continues to Narendra Modi Stadium, 132,000
Eden Gardens in Kolkata is the oldest (opened 1864) of the 606 listed stadiums in Asia. It is also the 3rd-largest of the 119 stadiums listed for cricket on this site.
The nearest listed stadium is Mohammedan Sporting Ground, 0.4 km away.
- Listed for
- Cricket
- Tenants
- India men's, India women's
- Surface
- Grass
- Position
- 22.56° N, 88.34° E
Where it stands in India
- Narendra Modi Stadium64,000 more132,000
- Eden Gardens68,000
- Salt Lake Stadiumsame figure68,000
- Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium3,000 fewer65,000
- Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi7,746 fewer60,254
- 87 more listed stadiums
From the record
- Operator
- Cricket Association of Bengal
- Record attendance
- 110,564 (1996)
- First men's Test
- 1934
- Share of listed capacity in India
- 2.5%
- Latest renovation or expansion
- 2010, more recent than 3 of the other 22 listed stadiums in India with such a year
- Compared with the median in India
- 2.7 times the median capacity of 25,405 across its 92 listed stadiums
- Opened in the 1860s in India
- 1 of the 92 listed stadiums, this one included
- Nearest larger listed stadium
- Narendra Modi Stadium, 1,614 km
- Listed stadiums within 10 km
- 5
Chronology
- 1864 Opened
- 2010 Renovated
Nearest listed stadiums
- Mohammedan Sporting Ground · south-east15,000 places, opened 19290.4 km
- East Bengal Ground · south23,500 places, opened 19150.6 km
- Rabindra Sarobar Stadium · south22,000 places, opened 19615.9 km
- Salt Lake Stadium · east68,000 places, opened 19846.8 km
- Kishore Bharati Krirangan · south-east12,000 places, opened 20219.4 km
Source: Wikipedia, Eden Gardens; the coordinates come from the German Wikipedia article.