Events
Event
- Title:
- 63rd Santosh Trophy 2009 Pre-Quarterfinals
- When:
- 31.05.2009 - 31.05.2009
- Where:
- Nehru Stadium - Coimbatore
- Category:
- Football
Description
Santosh Trophy is an annual Indian football tournament which is contested by states and government institutions. The first winners were Bengal, who also lead the all-time winners list with 29 titles till date.
The tournament first began in 1941, and was the premier football competition in the country before the National Football League started in the year 1996. The trophy as named after the late Maharaja Sir Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhary of Santosh, which is now in Bangladesh, who had been the President of the Indian Football Association, the football organisation of Bengal and the donators of the trophy.
The runners-up trophy, Kamla Gupta Trophy, was also donated by the IFA.
Format
The competition has seen a few changes in the format through the years. In the present format, there is a qualifying round involving eight clusters of three or four teams each. The eight winners from each cluster are then drawn along with four seeded teams, who do not have to come through qualifying, and these twelve teams are then divided into four groups of three each. This is the quarterfinal league stage, in which each of the three teams in the group play each other. The winners of each group then move to the semifinals. The semifinals and the final are single-legged fixtures, with extra time, golden goal (currently golden goal rule is not applied) and penalty shootout, if required.
Venue
- Venue:
- Nehru Stadium - Website
- Street:
- Near Gandhipuram Bus stand
- ZIP:
- 641018
- City:
- Coimbatore
- State:
- Tamil Nadu
- Country:
-
Description
SDAT Coimbatore Nehru Stadium
Nehru Stadium, the pride of the South, The synthetic is not a pre-fabricated version. "It's full polyurethane; quite expensive and the latest.
The big advantage is that it helps in high-quality performances. The surface is also injury-safe as it takes less strain. In
The stadium was constructed for football; there are so many things necessary for a stadium. The SDATN must find a way to provide all these. Even a mega electronic display board will do a world of good. If cricket is popular, it is because of its various strategies. For instance, every move on the field is captured electronically. The same can be done for athletics and it can be made popular.
The expert's views on the infrastructural needs may sound good, but M. Abdul Jabbar, Stadium Engineer, had proposed similar things in the 1970s. A two-tier accommodation was initially planned, with the first providing space for 30,000 spectators and the second, with escalator facilities, to accommodate an additional 15,000 people.
Provisions were also made for dressing rooms, conference hall, cloakrooms, bath facilities for players and athletes, a mini hospital and many more. A tunnel was even planned from the main entrance to take the athletes to the stadium without disturbing the track events. Also, for the construction of indoor games hall, swimming pool, ticket booths, electronic scoreboard, canteen room, public telephone booth and press and telex-printer service rooms. But nothing came up because only commercial establishments made the best use of the stadium's outer ring.
