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Sports in West Bengal has its own importance. Cricket and football are the most popular sports in the Indian state of West Bengal.




Football



Unlike in other Indian states where cricket is considered as the most popular game with some exceptions, football is the most popular game in West Bengal. It can be considered as the football hub of India and houses many clubs like East Bengal, Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting Club.




Cricket


As mostly in India, cricket is immensely popular among the masses of west Bengal. It houses the Eden Gardens stadium which is the largest cricket stadium in India. Eden gardens can house more than 100,000 people and is one of the only two 100,000-seat cricket amphitheaters in the world. Eden gardens is also the home for the East Zone and Bengal Cricket team. It also houses the Indian Premier League team Kolkata Knight Riders bought by Shah Rukh Khan which uses Eden gardens as its home turf. Calcutta Cricket and Football Club is the second-oldest cricket club in the world.




Other games


Indian sports like kho kho and kabaddi are also popular among the masses here.




= Polo

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The oldest polo club of the world, Calcutta Polo Club is also present here.




= Golf

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Outside Great Britain the Royal Calcutta Golf Club is the oldest of its kind.




Stadiums


Eden Gardens is used mainly for cricket.
Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, a multi-use stadium, is the world's second highest-capacity football stadium.
Kishore Bharati Krirangan, a multi-purpose stadium, used mainly for football.
Kanchenjunga Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium in Siliguri, West Bengal.
Durgapur, Siliguri and Kharagpur also hold various national and international sports events.




Notable persons


Dola Banerjee - archer
P.K. Banerjee - footballer
Rahul Banerjee - archer
Swapna Barman - gold medal winner of heptathlon in 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia
Dibyendu Barua - chess grand master
Sourav Ganguly - former Indian national cricket captain
Chuni Goswami - footballer
Sailen Manna - footballer
Leander Paes - Olympic tennis bronze medallist
Pankaj Roy - former Indian cricketer
Mohammed Ali Qamar - the first Indian to win a gold medal in the discipline of boxing in the Commonwealth Games
Wriddhiman Saha - Indian cricketer
Mihir Sen - swimmer
Masudur Rahman Baidya - swimmer
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar - athlete and winner of gold medals at the Asian Games
Manoj Tiwary - Indian cricketer
Jhulan Goswami - former captain of India national women's cricket team
Syed Rahim Nabi - former Indian national team footballer
Saurav Ghosal - Squash player
Sukalyan Ghosh Dastidar - former Indian national team footballer
Achinta Sheuli - Indian Weightlifter
Mehtab Hossain - former footballer




See also


Bengali traditional games




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