Tangail Stadium also called Tangail Zila Stadium ( bn, টাঙ্গাইল স্টেডিয়াম ) is located at Club Road, north side of Bhashani Hall and Tangail Eid-gah, 200 metres away and west side of Shaheed Sriti Poura Uddan in the district of
Tangail
Tangail ( bn, টাঙ্গাইল, ), is a major city within the Dhaka Division in central Bangladesh. It sits on the bank of the Louhajang River, north-west of Dhaka, the nation's capital. It is considered to be the main urban area of ...
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
. It is a multipurpose stadium.
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 ...
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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 ...
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concert
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s and cultural programs take place here. Until 2013 the stadium was the home ground of
Team BJMC
Team Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (Team BJMC) was a sporting club in Bangladesh, which is mainly located in the city of Dhaka. The club was formerly known as East Pakistan IDC prior to 1971 and Bangladesh JIC from 1971 until 1978, from whic ...
which played in
Bangladesh Premier League Football. It is the 3rd biggest stadium in Dhaka division
Football
Different local teams play among each other and it's a venue of inter district football matches. National football also played here from 2014.
Cricket
The stadium is used mostly for cricket, the most popular sport in Bangladesh. The stadium has become a venue of inter district cricket events as well as local events.
See also
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Stadiums in Bangladesh
Various types of sports are played in different districts of Bangladesh.The following locations (Absolute location) are sporting grounds (specially football and cricket ) of different districts in Bangladesh.
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*List of cricket grounds ...
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List of football stadiums in Bangladesh
The following is a list of football stadiums in Bangladesh, Currently, stadiums with a capacity of 5,000 or more are included.
Current stadiums
See also
* List of Asian stadiums by capacity
* List of association football stadiums by capacity
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List of cricket grounds in Bangladesh
This is a list of cricket grounds in Bangladesh. The grounds included in this list have held first-class, List-A and Twenty20 matches. Additionally, some have hosted Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals.
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Tangail Bus Stand, Mohakhali
Mohakhali Bus Terminal is one of three main inter-city bus stations in Dhaka (local name tangail bus stand), opened in 1984. Located in the Mohakhali neighbourhood, it primarily serves destinations in northern Bangladesh, including Tangail, Netr ...
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Tangail Railway Station
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Sport in Bangladesh
Sports venues in Bangladesh
Cricket grounds in Bangladesh
Bangladeshi culture
Football venues in Bangladesh
Tangail District
Tangail City