Nehru Maidan or Oil India Ground is a multi-purpose sport stadium used mostly for

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

matches, located in

Duliajan Duliajan is an Industrial city, industrial town of Dibrugarh district in the Indian state of Assam located in the upper north-east corner of India. The town is about 45 km east of Dibrugarh, Dibrugarh City. It is particularly known for its o ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

. The ground is owned and managed by

Oil India Oil India Limited (OIL) is a central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas oversees its operations, with its headquarters in ...

. It is the home ground of

Oil India FC Oil India Football Club is an Indian professional football club from Duliajan in Assam. The club was founded by Oil India in 1964. It also participated in I-League 2nd Division, then second tier football tournament of Indian football league sy ...

. It has hosted a number of national and state level football tournaments. District level

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

tournaments have also been hosted here. It has a capacity of 10,000 people.

References

External links

Official AIFF website

Official site of Oil India Ltd.
Football venues in Assam Sports venues in Assam Dibrugarh district 1984 establishments in Assam Sports venues completed in 1964 20th-century architecture in India {{India-sports-venue-stub