bengaluru due to the uncertainty over the availability of the sree kanteerava stadium to host their afc cup and isl matches isl champions bengaluru fc announced on tuesday that they have picked the balewadi stadium in pune as their home ground for the coming seasonin a bid to adhere to the aiff club licensing deadline bengaluru fc has enlisted the balewadi stadium pune as the venue for its home games for the coming season the blues tweeted on their official accounthowever the club is working closely with all stakeholders involved to find an amicable solution and ensure that bengaluru fc plays its home games out of the sree kanteerava stadium the city has been our fortress its people our strength and its glory our endeavour we hope to keep all of them intact the champion club addedtoi had reported on tuesday that pune was all set to become the second home for bfc as the talks with the department of youth empowerment and sports dyes officials and the athletics fraternity had failed to break the deadlockaccording to sources the bfc officials had conducted a recce of the facilities at the balewadi stadium recently though the club officials had projected pune and ahmedabad as its alternate cities to host the games ahmedabad was soon out of the picturenow bfc may well be going the minerva punjabs way minerva had last year shifted their home matches in afc cup to guwahati after failing to continue playing at bhubaneswar bfc probably would have to do the same if they return to bengaluru sources addedthe tussle for the use of the kanteerava stadium began after athletes who train on the synthetic track complained against them being shooed away by the security guards the athletes later moved the high court which pulled up the state sports department for not following the norms in leasing out the stadium to bfc bfc hoping to get permission soonmeanwhile informed sources told toi that the champion club was still hopeful of playing at the kanteerava stadium and hasnt really thought about playing in pune the club had to adhere to the club licensing criteria deadline and thats reason why it listed pune talks are still on at various levels and the club officials are hopeful of getting permission to play in bengaluru they saiddenying the possibility of hosting the afc cup matches in pune and the isl matches in bengaluru they said first up is isl and the afc cup matches are scheduled only in february next year so if the permission doesnt come on time then it will first affect isl that is beginning next monththe kanteerava stadium needs just a bit of sprucing up to hold the matches even if permission comes a bit late bfc can still get things in order to host the first match against northeast united fc on october 21 sources addedthe case which former athletes filed in the high court against dyes for leasing the stadium to bfc is set to come