Durand Cup 2022: Here are the details of Asia’s oldest football tournament – schedule, timings and venue
Guwahati: The 131st edition of Durand Cup, Asia’s oldest football tournament, will begin on August 16, 2022.
Apart from Kolkata and Imphal, Guwahati will also host the 131st edition of the Durand Cup.
The Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati will host a total of ten matches between August 17 and September 4.
The opening match between FC Goa and Mohammedan SC will be played at Vivekananda Yuba Bharti Karingan in Kolkata at 7 pm.
Initially, Emami East Bengal and ATK Mohun Bagan were scheduled to open the tournament, but their match was rescheduled following a request from the former club.
The Durand Cup, which started in 1888, is the oldest football tournament in Asia.
The tournament is named after its founder, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, who served as Foreign Secretary of British India from 1884 to 1894.
It first started as a football tournament for various departments and regiments of the armed forces (of British India and Native India.
The designated stadiums for the tournament are Salt Lake Stadium (Kolkata, West Bengal), Nihati Stadium (Nihati, West Bengal), Kishore Bharti Stadium (Kolkata, West Bengal), Khaman Limpak Stadium (Imphal, Manipur) and Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium. Guwahati, Assam).
