Location
Open in Google Maps →Jnanabharathi Campus, Bangalore University, Mysore Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Sports offered · 4
Facilities
- ▸ Synthetic track
- ▸ Aquatic centre
- ▸ Hostel
- ▸ Sports science support
- ▸ Strength & conditioning
Hostel & residential
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.gov.in).
Contact
Phone: not published by the academy or its parent body.
Email: not published.
Ask the academy directly: its official website (https://sportsauthorityofindia.gov.in).
Admission process
- You cannot submit an open application to an NCOE or SAI regional centre.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 (NCOE)
History: Established 13 April 1974 at Sree Kanteerava Stadium; moved to the Jnanabharathi campus on 29 July 1985
Responsible for: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka
Governed by: Sports Authority of India
Scholarships
SAI NCOE stipend, kit & boarding; TOPS for elite athletes.