Sports in Karnataka

[1] The sports related infrastructure is mainly concentrated in Bangalore which also played host to the 4th National Games of India in the year 1997.

[4] Amidst of cricket, which is the most popular sport of Karnataka, football finds its way in the state and attracts good amount of spectators during Indian Super League games of the club, Bengaluru FC.

Manju, Kuppuswami Sampath, Shankar Sampingiraj, Karma Tsewang, Sanjeeva Uchil are the notable footballers from karnataka.

Bengaluru FC is by far one of the most successful football Club in not only Karnataka but India, after having won six titles in short span.

This stadium also hosts the National Cricket Academy which was started to train youngsters who could represent India in the future.

Syed Kirmani and Roger Binny from Karnataka were members of the Indian team that won the Cricket World Cup in the year 1983.

Other notable cricketers from Karnataka who have represented India include Gundappa Viswanath, Erapalli Prasanna, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Javagal Srinath, Sunil Joshi, Venkatesh Prasad, Robin Uthappa, Vinay Kumar, and Dodda Ganesh.

[11] Karnataka, particularly the district of jallahali have produced numerous hockey players who went on to represent India at the international level.

[12] Former Indian hockey captain Sommayya Maneypande, goalkeeper Ashish Ballal, Arjun Halappa and several others who have represented India at the Olympics hail from Karnataka.

Mahesh Bhupathi, the winner of many Grand Slam doubles titles, is a resident of Bangalore and has set up a Tennis Academy here with the help of Nike.

[18] Mangalore United is a Karnataka Premier League (KPL) franchise owned by Fiza Developers.

[24] Ravi Shastri, who represented India for several years in international cricket as an all-rounder and captained the team, is of Mangalorean descent.

[27] Schools and colleges from across Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kodagu districts participate and the matches are conducted under seven categories for children and young adults in education.

[34] Traditional sports like Kambala—buffalo races contested in flooded paddy fields—[35] and Korikatta (cockfighting) are very popular in the city.

[45] The city has a group of kite enthusiasts named Team Mangalore that participates in the festivals.