PSA Phuentsholing Stadium

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PSA Phuentsholing Stadium
PSA Phuentsholing Stadium
Location Phuntsholing, Bhutan
OwnerPhuentsholing Sport Association (PSA)
TypeSport venue
Capacity 5,000
Field shapeRectangular
Surface Grass (until 2016)
Artificial turf (2016–present)
Opened2011
Tenants
Phuentsholing United [1]
Phuentsholing City FC
(previously)
Chukha District Football League
District Women Football Tournament

PSA Phuentsholing Stadium, also known as Phuentsholing Football Ground, is a 5,000-capacity football stadium located in Phuntsholing, Bhutan. The Bhutan Olympic Committee instigated a major sport venue construction project in 2016 which included the insertion of multiple additions to the stadium. [2] Opened to the public in summer 2011, the field was previously prepared for paddy transplantations by the local footballers. [3]

Contents

It is the only recreational venue in Phuntsholing. For example, the annual inter-departmental football tournament start depends solely on the PSA Football Ground being ready for usage. [4]

Preparatory work on the stadium was needed as it was hosting an event to celebrate Bhutan's monarch Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. [3]

Ground

Hosting the 2011 Bhutan Monsoon Tournament, more fixtures were played irrespective of the rainfall reducing the pitch to a desolate field of uprooted grass roots which was a problem in the monsoon season. [3]

Artificial turf was built to supplant the sand pitch, costing a budget of 16.5 million Bhutanese ngultrums. [5]

Expansions

2009–2010

A facelift of the PSA Football Ground started in 2009 which saw a three-sided public gallery that could contain 5,000 people. A considerable sum of 9.8 million Bhutanese ngultrums was provided in assistance to the project from the Asian Development Bank. [6]

2017

A V-shaped drain was constructed as well as the laying of paved blocks. Around 90,428 Bhutanese ngultrums were paid to the contractors in accordance with the instruction to the bidders. [7]

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