Lammual Stadium is a football stadium located in

Aizawl Aizawl (, American English, US: , British English, UK: ; Mizo language, Mizo: ), formerly known as Aijal, is the capital city and the most populous city of Mizoram, India. It is also the third largest city in northeast India. It is situated ato ...

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. It is used mainly for

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matches. It was one of the venues for the Northeast Games 2012. The stadium serves as the venue for

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matches.

Stadium

The ground is a single tier stadium. The stadium has a

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of about 5,000 spectators, which costed around 190 crores.

History

Lammual was started in the 1920s due to lack of level ground in Mizoram for troops to practice and it was decided to flatten a knoll to create a Parade ground. It took 5 years of Military labor under Loch's battalion to complete the ground. The cost of leveling the ground at that time was Rs 1,200. When the work was completed, the parade ground had a sheer cliff of 60 feet on side and 150 feet of filling in on the other. The cliff face of this field.

Modern

The stadium has a historical and cultural significance for the

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. It has been used for addressing the people of Mizoram by politicians like

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who visited

in 1965. Lammual has also been the place where a helicopter landed for the first time in Mizoram in 1962. It is the venue for

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festival, a festival of Mizo people. There was initially a plan to construct the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Lammual ground before it was shifted to Mualpui as Assam Rifle could not give clearance for construction. The

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officially inaugurated the artificial turf (grass) laid at Aizawl Lammual, also known as the Assam Rifles (AR) Ground in Aizawl city on Monday, 28 February 2011.

References

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