The Chandigarh Hockey Stadium is a
field hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shootin ...
stadium at
Chandigarh
Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which ...
, India. It was the home of the
Chandigarh Dynamos
Chandigarh Dynamos were a Premier Hockey League team based in Chandigarh, Punjab. The team captain was Rajpal Singh
Rajpal Singh (born 8 August 1983) is a former captain of India national hockey team. He plays from the forward (front line ...
of the
Premier Hockey League. It has a seating capacity of 30,000
people.
Important tournaments held here include Indira Gandhi International Gold Cup, Asian School Hockey, National School Games Twice, All India Women Festival, Indo-Uzabekistak 1977, Indo Pan American Hockey 1995, All India Hockey Tournaments, and Punjab Gold Cup.
It later served as the home ground for
World Series Hockey's local franchise,
Chandigarh Comets.
References
External links
Indo-Pak tie: UT top brass to play hockey too*https://web.archive.org/web/20120407233712/http://chandigarh.nic.in/dept_sports2.htm
Field hockey venues in India
Buildings and structures in Chandigarh
Sports venues in Chandigarh
Field hockey in Punjab, India
Year of establishment missing
2007 establishments in Punjab, India
Sports venues completed in 2007
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