| Fullname: | Giri Centre for Students' Welfare & Activities |
| Native Name: | गिरी क्रीड़ा केंद्र |
| Native Name Lang: | hin |
| Othernames: | Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Sports Complex |
| Mainvenue: | SAI Stadium |
| Location: | Hisar, Haryana, India |
| Built: | 1978 |
| Renovated: | 2019-20 |
| Expanded: | 2019-20 |
| Owner: | CCS HAU |
| Operator: | HAU |
| Cost: | |
| Acreage: | 8 Acres |
| Tenants: | SAI, HAU |
| Publictransit: | Located on MDR107 highway, near to Hisar Junction railway station and Hisar Airport. |
| Years Active: | 1978-2019, 2020- |
| City: | CCS HAU, Hisar |
| Etymology: | V. V. Giri, 4th President of India |
Giri Centre, or Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Sports Complex, is a multi-sports complex in the Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University at Hisar, Haryana. It houses several SAI centres of excellence, stadiums and arenas for a variety of indoor and outdoor sports, and a sports hostel for the visiting and resident sportspersons.[1] [2]
It is located within the CCHAU campus just inside the CCS HAU Gate No. 3 on the MDR107 Balsamand road. Hisar Junction railway station (2.8 km), Hisar Airport (presently domestic, 7.3 km), Indira Gandhi International Airport (182 km), Chandigarh Airport (249 km) and NIS, Patiala (176 km) are the nearest major access points.
The sports complex is officially named as the Giri Centre which is named after the India's fourth president, Varahagiri Venkata Giri.[2]
The construction of Giri Centre started in 1975 and completed in 1978. A sports college was established here in 1978 which was disbanded in 1991 when SAI opened a regional sports training centre here.
In December 2018, the DSW of HAU Students' Welfare signed a partnership agreement with the JSW Group (Jindal Group) under which the Jindal Group will spend for the enhancement of sports infrastructure and appointment of the technical sports support experts to identify, nurture and develop the sports talent at the Giri Centre in Public–private partnership (PPP) mode.[2]
SAI Sports Training Centre, HAU Hisar (SAI STC, Hisar), was established in 2001.[3] [4] To train sports persons, the Sports Authority of India (SAI) has established a "Sports Training Center" at HAU with the following "Centres of Excellence": [5] [6]
The complex has the following facilities.[1]
On 11 November 1975, the stadium hosted a first-class match during the Ranji Trophy tournament at the cricket stadium here between Haryana cricket team and Jammu and Kashmir cricket team.[7]
From 1 to 10 February 2019, the national senior women's hockey championship was held at Giri Centre astroturf ground for the selection of the national team.[8]
Numerous HAU students and other non-HAU sports person who trained at Giri Centre has achieved fame at international level in the Asian Games, Commonwealth games and Olympic Games.
The HAU students who trained here and became internal medal winners include:
Sportspersons who were not HAU students but trained here include: