Education City Stadium

Education City Stadium
استاد المدينة التعليمية (Arabic)
Interior view of the stadium before the 2022 FIFA World Cup Group H match between South Korea and Portugal.
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Full nameEducation City Stadium
Location
Coordinates25°18′39″N 51°25′28″E / 25.3108°N 51.4244°E / 25.3108; 51.4244
Public transit Education City (المدينة التعليمية)
OwnerQatar Foundation
Capacity
Record attendance44,667 (Morocco vs Spain, 6 December 2022)
SurfaceGrass
Construction
Broke ground2016
Opened15 June 2020
Architect
  • Fenwick Iribarren Architects
  • Pattern Design
Project managerASTAD
Structural engineer
Main contractors
Tenants
Qatar national football team (selected matches)

Education City Stadium (Arabic: إِسْتَاد المدينة التعليمية, romanizedʾIstād al-Madīna at-Taʿlīmiyya) is a football stadium which is located in Al Rayyan, Qatar, and was built as a venue in time for the 2022 FIFA World Cup held in Qatar. The stadium is located within several university campuses at the Qatar Foundation's Education City.[2] Following the FIFA World Cup, the stadium will retain 25,000 seats for use by university athletic teams. On 3 September 2020, the stadium hosted its first official match, played in the 2020–21 Qatar Stars League season.[3]

The stadium is located about 7 km north-west of Doha.[4]

  1. ^ "Education City Stadium". fifa.com. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  2. ^ "The official completion of Education City Stadium". qatar2022.qa. Archived from the original on 24 February 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Cazorla dazzles as football arrives at Education City". FIFA. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Education City Stadium". qatar2022.qa. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

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