Al-Khor SC Stadium

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Al -Khor Sports Club

The al - Khawr Stadium or even al -Khor Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in the Qatari town of Khor. In the venue, see especially a football matches and is Leichtahtletikwettkämpfe instead. It has a capacity of 16,000 spectators. Main users of the stadium is the football club Al- Khor Sports Club, which discharges its home games there in the Qatar Stars League. Was built the stadium building 1986. 2006 was followed by a renewal.

During the winter break of 2010/11, 8 January 2011, graduated from the German Bundesliga club Bayern Munich against al- Wakrah SC a preseason game at al - Khawr Stadium.

The stadium is scheduled to host the football World Cup in 2022. Until then, a new building for 45.120 seats is planned, ie the old stadium is not preserved. The new building is reminiscent of a seashell. Located on the Arabian Gulf, it should be possible to look to the viewers of West Grandstand out of their seats on the marine landscape. In addition, it is planned to introduce water taxis that make a transfer to the stadium possible. The al - Khawr Stadium will eventually be only football site. The stadium planners gave themselves in the new conceptual Stportstätte the target with an environmentally friendly, innovative, CO2 - neutral technology to keep stadiums cool, so that the temperature 27 degrees Celsius should not exceed. The design was developed by the German company AS & P, Albert Speer & Partner GmbH. The planned investment budget is for the new building at 251 million dollars. At the World Cup to group and quarter-final matches will be played here.