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SAI National Centre of Excellence, Lucknow

SAI National Centre of Excellence · SAI Regional Centre

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Khelo India accredited academy

  • Hockey, Weightlifting — Boys & Girls · Residential
  • Athletics, Wrestling — Girls · Residential

As published on the Khelo India Accredited Academies (official dashboard), checked 2026-09-04. This list publishes no address, contact, fee or age range for any academy, so none is shown here.

Sourcing caveat: SAI lists wrestling at this centre for girls — that marker is its own.

Sports offered · 5

AthleticsHockeyTaekwondoWeightliftingWrestling(G)

Facilities

  • ▸ 400m synthetic athletics track and a 200m sand track
  • ▸ Synthetic and grass hockey fields
  • ▸ 50m x 25m swimming pool
  • ▸ Football field, two handball courts, two kabaddi grounds
  • ▸ Two basketball courts and two volleyball courts
  • ▸ Boxing hall and taekwondo hall

Hostel & residential

Residential hostel available

Two 80-bed boys' hostels and a 100-bed hostel for national campers.

Fees

No fee applies.

This is a government-funded centre. Selected athletes are not charged a training fee — boarding, lodging, coaching, diet and sports-science support are provided by the scheme. No fee schedule is published because none applies.

Getting in, not paying, is the barrier here: see the admission process below.

Age limit

Not published.

No official source states an age eligibility range for this academy. Ask the academy directly: its official website (https://sportsauthorityofindia.nic.in/sai_new).

Contact

Phone: not published by the academy or its parent body.

Email: not published.

Ask the academy directly: its official website (https://sportsauthorityofindia.nic.in/sai_new).

Admission process

  1. You cannot submit an open application to an NCOE or SAI regional centre.
  2. Entry is either by a SAI or national-federation talent-identification committee, or by qualifying at an open selection trial that SAI announces separately for each centre and each discipline.
  3. Those open trials are real and recurring. SAI's notice for the NCOE Mumbai wrestling trial, for example, advertised vacancies of 10 in Greco-Roman, 2 in Free Style and 2 in Women's wrestling, in the U-17, U-20 and U-23 age groups; SAI also publishes an "NCOE Athletics Selection Trials — All Venues" notice.
  4. Published eligibility at that trial: a state championship medal, or a top-five finish at national championships or ranking tournaments in the previous two years.
  5. There is no application form for a trial — candidates report at the venue in person, carrying a birth certificate, Aadhaar, achievement certificates, education qualifications and two passport photographs.
  6. Lodging is not provided during the trials.

Trials

Open selection trials are announced by SAI per centre and per discipline, alongside talent identification by SAI and the national federations. Watch SAI's selection-trial notices — there is no application form; shortlisted candidates report at the venue.

Accreditation

SAI National Centre of Excellence · SAI Regional Centre

History: Established 2004; inaugurated 23 February 2004

Responsible for: Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

Governed by: Sports Authority of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India