Key facts
- Full name
- Education City Stadium
- Location
- Education City , Al Rayyan , Qatar
- Owner
- Qatar Foundation
- Capacity
- 44,667
- Surface
- Grass
- Record attendance
- 44,667 ( Morocco vs Spain , 6 December 2022 )
- Public transit
- Education City (المدينة التعليمية)
- Opened
- 15 June 2020
- Architect
- Fenwick Iribarren Architects Pattern Design
- Project manager
- ASTAD
- Structural engineer
- Arup Buro Happold
- Main contractors
- Conspel Qatar Joannou & Paraskevaides
via Wikipedia infobox
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Education City Stadium (Arabic: إِسْتَاد المدينة التعليمية, romanized: ʾIstād 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. 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.
The stadium is located about 7 km north-west of Doha.