Salt Lake Stadium
Kolkata, India
68,000
recorded capacity
recorded as 2020–present
1 block = 1,000 placesoutline continues to Narendra Modi Stadium, 132,000
Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata is the joint 2nd-largest of the 92 listed stadiums in India. It opened in 1984.
The nearest listed stadium is Mohammedan Sporting Ground, 6.5 km away.
- Listed for
- Athletics and football
- Tenants
- India national football team, West Bengal football team, East Bengal, Mohun Bagan
- Surface
- Grass
- Position
- 22.57° N, 88.41° E
Where it stands in India
- Narendra Modi Stadium64,000 more132,000
- Eden Gardenssame figure68,000
- Salt Lake Stadium68,000
- Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium3,000 fewer65,000
- Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi7,746 fewer60,254
- Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium13,000 fewer55,000
- 86 more listed stadiums
From the record
- Owner
- Government of West Bengal
- Operator
- Department of Youth Services & Sports
- Architect
- Thompson & Matthews Pvt. Ltd. H. K. Sen & Associates
- Field size
- 110 m × 72 m
- Record attendance
- 131,781 (1997)
- Opening order in India
- 40th of 92, earliest first
- Share of listed capacity in India
- 2.5%
- Latest renovation or expansion
- 2017, more recent than 10 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 1980s in India
- 4 of the 92 listed stadiums, this one included
- Nearest larger listed stadium
- Narendra Modi Stadium, 1,621 km
- Listed stadiums within 10 km
- 5
Chronology
- 1984 Opened
- 2011 Renovated
- 2014 Renovated
- 2016 Renovated
- 2017 Renovated
Nearest listed stadiums
- Mohammedan Sporting Ground · west15,000 places, opened 19296.5 km
- East Bengal Ground · west23,500 places, opened 19156.8 km
- Eden Gardens · west68,000 places, opened 18646.8 km
- Kishore Bharati Krirangan · south12,000 places, opened 20218.4 km
- Rabindra Sarobar Stadium · south-west22,000 places, opened 19618.6 km
Source: Wikipedia, Salt Lake Stadium.