Rajasthan United FC (RUFC) finally is going to have its stadium in Jaipur. The club’s CEO Dinesh Negi informed the stadium will be ready for the match in the next season.

However, it is also learned that the renovation work of the stadium is in the final stage and it might be ready before RUFC’s last home match of the ongoing I-league. 

The stadium at Jaipur is already there. It is being renovated. It will have a capacity of around five thousand spectators. The key aspect is that the Astro-turf, installed at the stadium is a Fifa-approved turf.

Since it started its journey three years ago, RUFC has been going through hard days due to the lack of a stadium. The team had to organize their home matches in Hyderabad, at Kalyani Stadium, West Bengal, or at Namdhari Stadium, Ludhiana. To organize their home matches in different cities the club had to spend a huge amount of money already. Hyderabad FC charges Rs 4 lakh for playing the match only. 

Lodging, food, traveling to respective cities, and training sessions for the team bear additional expenses. Compared to Hyderabad, playing at Kalyani Stadium and Namdhari Stadium is cheaper, Still, Dinesh revealed, “The amount is more than Rs 30 lakh the club had to spend already to participate in their home matches.” 

Following repeated appeals to the state government and tireless effort taken by the club's chairman Krishan Kumar Tak and the director Rajat Mishra, The state government promised last year that RUFC would be allotted a stadium exclusively for football.

Dinesh said, “We are thankful to the state government that a football stadium will exclusively be allotted to us. We feel it would be a big boost for us playing home matches at home. It would help us to build up the football culture across the state and also strengthen us financially in the future. Except the places like Jaipur and Udaipur football culture has not grown up in Rajasthan.”

RUFC head coach Puspendar Kundu feels that, along with the huge amount of money, the lack of own stadium has affected the team's performance also. 

Kundu commented, “If you have to roam around the cities like Hyderabad, and Kalyani, footballers become both physically and psychologically tired. Otherwise, our performance would have been better. Our Ghanaian striker Richardson Denzell is now the second top-scorer of the ongoing I-league.” RUFC has so far garnered 15 points from 14 matches. 

RUFC is also running a residential academy in Jaipur where 135 boys in four age groups (under 13, 15, 19, and Reserve-team) are being groomed for the future.