ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCEWikipedia's[1][2] article dates it "scheduled to take place in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, in October 2030". Only the month is fixed so far, so the pin covers the whole of it.
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2030 Commonwealth Games Open
The 2030 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXIV Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Amdavad 2030, is a planned multi-sport event scheduled to take place in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, in October 2030. This will be the second Commonwealth Games to be hosted in India, following the 2010 Games in Delhi, and the third in Asia. The article's infobox names Narendra Modi Stadium as the main venue, and its venue table lists the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sports Enclave around it as the ceremonies venue, capacity 132,000.
- “The 2030 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXIV Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Amdavad 2030, is a planned multi-sport event scheduled to take place in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, in October 2030” – the second Commonwealth Games hosted in India after Delhi 2010, the third in Asia, and the centenary edition of the event[1]
- No exact date is fixed: the infobox gives the opening as “TBA” while the lead says October 2030, which is why the pin spans the whole month[1]
- The pin’s note that no opening venue has been announced is only half right on the source’s own account – the infobox names Narendra Modi Stadium as the main venue, and the venue table lists the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sports Enclave, the complex the stadium sits in, as the ceremonies venue with a capacity of 132,000, the stadium’s own capacity[1][2]
- Ahmedabad was elected at the Commonwealth Sport General Assembly in Glasgow on 26 November 2025, with the bidding table recording the vote as “Unanimous”, after the bid evaluation commission recommended the Indian bid on 15 October 2025[1]
- Only two formal proposals arrived by the 31 August 2025 bid-dossier deadline, India’s and Nigeria’s, as Commonwealth Sport announced on 1 September; Abuja’s bid had backing from President Bola Tinubu in July 2025 and followed a losing 2014 bid against Glasgow[1]
- The field thinned early: Alberta’s Calgary-Edmonton bid was terminated when the provincial government withdrew on 3 August 2023, Hamilton ceased to be Canada’s preferred candidate in February 2023, Ontario pulled out of the “United Canada” multi-province bid in June 2025, and Australia declined, with Craig Phillips citing proximity to the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and Victoria’s withdrawal from the 2026 Games[1]
- India’s bid was built on venues planned for Ahmedabad’s 2036 Summer Olympics bid: the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sports Enclave for aquatics, boxing, 3x3 basketball, cricket, gymnastics and kabaddi, Naranpura Sports Complex for badminton, judo and table tennis, and a new Karai complex with a 50,000-capacity athletics stadium, a 5,000-capacity indoor arena and a shooting range[1]
- The Indian Olympic Association formally approved the bid at a Special General Meeting in New Delhi on 13 August 2025, and two weeks later the Government of India approved it and agreed to all monetary guarantees required by the CGF; domestically Ahmedabad beat Bhubaneswar on the strength of superior athletic venues and experience hosting high-profile events[1]
- Almost all events are to be held across four Gujarat cities – Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Vadodara and Ekta Nagar – with promised upgrades to roads, housing and the Ahmedabad Metro, an expanded Ahmedabad International Airport, and some surrounding slums to be vacated for construction[1]
- Preparations are reported ahead of schedule: the ₹825 crore, 21-acre Veer Savarkar Sports Complex with six zones including an aquatics centre and tennis courts opened in September 2025, and Indian officials said venues were 85% complete as of May 2026[1]
- The Commonwealth Games flag was transferred from Glasgow to Gujarat in August 2026, bearing the message “Sport Unites Us All”; India finished fourth at the previous Games with 39 medals including 13 gold[1]
- 2030 is the first edition under the roadmap the CGF announced in October 2021: 15 to 17 sports per edition, a new compulsory category of athletics and swimming plus their para counterparts, core sports abolished, and hosts free to pick the rest from a pre-assembled list[1]
- Eight sports were named after the host announcement – athletics and swimming as compulsory with Paralympic counterparts, bowls and weightlifting with Paralympic equivalents, artistic gymnastics, netball and boxing retained from Glasgow 2026, and table tennis with its Paralympic equivalent, a sport absent from Glasgow – with cricket and field hockey confirmed in April 2026 alongside proposals for up to two Indian traditional sports from yoga, kabaddi, kho kho and mallakhamba[1]
- In June 2026 Commonwealth Sport chief executive Katie Sadleir said Ahmedabad would run a full programme of 17 sports, up from Glasgow’s reduced schedule, with organisers aiming for a 60 percent reduction in hosting costs compared with earlier editions; a further five to seven are still to be chosen from an optional list the article calls fifteen but spells out as only fourteen[1]
- All 74 Commonwealth Games Associations are expected to take part, and Seven Network is listed as the Australian broadcaster[1]
- Narendra Modi Stadium, where this pin sits, is described as “the world’s largest cricket stadium and the largest overall stadium in the world by capacity” at 132,000, owned and operated by the Gujarat Cricket Association in Motera, Ahmedabad, and its article states it “will also be used for the 2030 Commonwealth Games”[2]
- The ground was rebuilt on the site of the demolished Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium between 2015 and 2020 by Larsen & Toubro to a Populous design, opening on 24 February 2020 and being renamed after Modi at its official inauguration by president Ram Nath Kovind on 24 February 2021; its reported final cost is ₹800 crore (US$83 million) against an estimate the article renders as both US$73 million and $93 million for the same ₹700 crore[2]
- It has already staged events on the scale a Games ceremony would need: the 2023 Cricket World Cup final before 92,453, the 2026 T20 World Cup final before 86,824, four IPL finals and the Namaste Trump event with about 125,000 people, although the article cannot agree on its record crowd – the infobox gives 111,989 for Coldplay while the achievements section calls the 2022 IPL final’s 104,859 the highest in the stadium’s history[2]
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- [1]50%en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2030_Commonwealth_Gamesen.wikipedia.org· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Oct 1, 2030 ✓· Ends Oct 31, 2030 ✓· 50% of score
Wikipedia's[2] article dates it "scheduled to take place in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, in October 2030". Only the month is fixed so far, so the pin covers the whole of it.
- [2]80%Narendra Modi Stadium - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 20, 2026· 50% of score
The ground this pin is placed at, standing in until an opening venue is announced; its article carries the coordinates and capacity.[1]
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