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Al Janoub Stadium
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Football stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar
Key facts
- Full name
- Al-Janoub Stadium
- Former names
- Al-Wakrah Stadium (May 2019 – June 2019)
- Location
- Al Wakrah , Qatar
- Owner
- Qatar Football Association
- Capacity
- 44,325
- Roof
- Retractable
- Surface
- Grass
- Record attendance
- 43,443 ( Ghana vs Uruguay , 2 December 2022 )
- Field size
- 105 x 68 m
- Built
- 2014–2019
- Opened
- 16 May 2019
- Architect
- Zaha Hadid
- Services engineer
- Jain and Partners
- Main contractors
- Midmac Contracting Co. Six Construct Qatar Porr Qatar Construction
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stadium
- Country
- Qatar
- Located in
- Al Wakrah
- Owned by
- Qatar Football Association
- Operator
- Al-Wakrah Sports Club
- Location
- Al Wakrah
- Sport
- association football
- Image
- 28 10 2019 Visita ao estádio de futebol Al Janoub (48977932316).jpg
- Significant event
- 2022 FIFA World Cup
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- maximum capacity
- 20000
- occupant
- Al-Wakrah Sports Club
- architect
- Zaha Hadid
- date of official opening
- 2019-05-16
- native label
- ملعب الوكرة
- Commons category
- Al Janoub Stadium
- inception
- 2019-05-16
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Encyclopedic overview
Al-Janoub Stadium (Arabic: استاد الجنوب, romanized: Istād al-Janūb, lit. 'Stadium of the South'), formerly known as Al-Wakrah Stadium (Arabic: استاد الوكرة), is a retractable-roof football stadium in al-Wakrah, Qatar that was inaugurated on 16 May 2019. This was the second of the eight stadiums inaugurated for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, after the renovation of Khalifa International Stadium. It was designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid (1950–2016) together with the firms AECOM and Jain & Partners of Dubai.
The stadium features a curvilinear postmodernist and neo-futurist design. The appearance of the roof was inspired by the sails of traditional dhows used by pearl divers from the region, weaving through currents of the Persian Gulf.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al Janoub Stadium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.