Capacity
Main Stadium: 50,000 Hockey Stadium: 16,000
Type
Outdoor
Location
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Surface Type
Artificial Turf
Kalinga Stadium is a multi-sports venue located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Established in 1978 by an Indian politician, aviator and businessman Biju Patnaik. The stadium has developed into one of the city's major sporting venues. It has been the home stadium for Indian men's as well as women's national field hockey team, and also for Kalinga Lancers that performs in Hockey India League.
It has served as the home venue of Odisha FC since the club was established in 2019 and also hosted Indian Arrows during their time in the I-League. The complex provides facilities for a wide range of sports, including athletics, football, hockey, basketball, tennis, table tennis, badminton, volleyball, wall climbing and swimming. Its infrastructure includes an eight-lane synthetic athletics track, several high-performance training centres and an Olympic-standard pink-and-blue water-based hockey AstroTurf, described by the Sports Authority of India as the first of its kind in India.
Trivia
The stadium has India's first newly built Olympic standard hockey turf of pink and blue colour.
Significance
The stadium includes an 8-lane athletics track, gymnasium and a sports hostel for players.
The stadium has hosted significant events of the Asian Athletics Championship of 2017, where around 560 athletes from 41 nations came to participate.
In 2014, it witnessed the jaw-dropping matches of the Hockey Champions Trophy and was also selected to host the Men's Hockey World Cup of 2018.
The Asia Rugby Women's Championship of 2018 was also held here from 26th-28th October. The same year, in February and March, it has hosted the India F1 Futures tennis tournament, organised by Odisha Tennis Association.
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