- Address: Bhubaneswar
- Country: India
- Capacity: 15,000
- Opened: 1978
- Main use: Football
- Tenants: Odisha FC (football)
Extra stadium info – Kalinga Stadium
The Kalinga Stadium is used for several events, like athletics, football, rugby sevens and rugby union. Odisha Football Club, the first sports club from Odisha with 100,000 followers on its main social media page, use the venue for home games. They play in the Indian Super League, which is known as the top-flight football league of India. On 27 December 2019, Odisha FC played their first ISL match at the Kalinga Stadium. They won the game against Jamshedpur FC 2-1.
Football players
Odisha FC began their first match at the Kalinga Stadium with six players from India and five players from Spain. The players who started for Odisha FC in the game were Aridane Jesús Santana Cabrera, Carlos Javier Delgado Rodríguez, Daniel Lalhlimpuia, Francisco Hernández Marcos, Francisco Ramón Dorronsoro Sánchez, Gaurav Bora, Marcos Tébar Ramiro, Nandha Kumar Sekar, Narayan Das, Shubham Sarangi and Vinit Rai Chamling. Daniel Lalhlimpuia, Narayan Das and Vinit Rai Chamling played for the national football team of India before they played in the match. Marcos Tébar Ramiro played for the Spanish football giants Real Madrid, the first sports club with 100 million followers on its main social media page.
