page_title: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
section_title: Sports and recreation
hierarchical_section_title: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte / Sports and recreation
caption_attribution_description: සිංහල: දියත උයන English: Diyatha Uyana Fountain at Night, Sri Lanka
context_page_description: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, commonly known as Kotte, is the official administrative capital of Sri Lanka. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is a satellite city and located within the urban area of Sri Lanka's de facto economic and legislative capital, Colombo.
  The Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte Municipal Council area is bounded in:
  the North by Kolonnawa Urban Council area,
  the North-East by the Kotikawatta–Mulleriyawa Pradeshiya Sabha area,
  the East by the Kaduwela Municipal Council area,
  the South-East by the Maharagama Urban Council area,
  the South-West by the Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council and
  the West by the Colombo Municipal Council area, which is the commercial capital of Sri Lanka.
context_section_description: Cricket is the most popular sport in this urban area as well as the country and is usually played in the grounds around the city.
  Association football was at one time the most popular sport in the Colombo area, although it was eclipsed by cricket after 1980. Four separate football clubs (Lido, Welikada Progress, Welikada Red Star and Welikada United) once used the EW Perera Park grounds at Welikada, Rajagiriya where a pavilion was constructed in the 1970s. However, when the grounds were destroyed by the JR Jayawardene regime in the late 1970s, the football clubs disappeared. Football continued to be played at the grounds at Obeysekerapura in Rajagiriya.
  In the 1990s the Kotte Municipal Council constructed the Chandra Silva Stadium, to replace the EW Perera Grounds. Part of the grounds was sold and later used to construct the HSBC building. In 2007 the Municipality, with aid from the Ministry of Urban Development, completed the first stage of the new Chandra Silva Stadium on the site of a rubbish dump behind the HSBC building.
  Recently, football has once more grown in popularity, and the sport now has a considerable following. The football association's new training facility at Kotte is aimed at harnessing and developing the available talent and organizing the individual players into a cohesive team. It includes a football playground with a sprinkler system, gym and a host of other facilities.
  Other sports are mostly played in the numerous clubs and gyms, and include tennis, squash, billiards, horse riding, indoor cricket, badminton and table tennis. Horse riding can be pursued at the Premadasa Riding School in Nugegoda.
caption: Diyatha Uyana
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