Stade Adrar
- Hassania d' Agadir
- Games of the Moroccan national football team
- FIFA Club World Cup 2013
- African Cup of Nations 2015
The Stade Adrar (Arabic ملعب أدرار Grand Stade d' Agadir or ) is a football stadium with track and field facility in the Moroccan city of Agadir. The 2013 opened sports facility with 45,480 seats, about 10,000 of them covered in the main stand, is used primarily by the football club Hassania d' Agadir ( HUSA ). It replaced the outdated Stade Al Inbiaate with only 15,000 seats. In addition, the Moroccan national football team uses the stadium for international matches.
History
The stadium is located approximately six kilometers east from the city center of Agadir and the harbor is seven kilometers. The Almassira International Airport is located 20 kilometers southeast of the stadium's construction.
The new building for about 1 billion MAD ( approximately 103 million euros ) was originally intended as a venue in the application of Morocco for the Football World Cup 2010. When awarding Morocco was defeated but with 10:14 Voices against South Africa.
In an international competition in 1999, the design by the architects Saâd Benkirane from Morocco and Italian Vittorio Gregotti was selected for realization. The work on the stadium began in the presence of King Mohammed VI. on June 4, 2004.: but they came because of vote defeat for the 2010 World Cup to a halt. 2007, construction was continued and should be completed in late 2009. The rapid implementation of the plan was prevented by financial difficulties.
In March 2012, the stadium approached, according to the standards of FIFA and the IAAF IAAF, of completion. This should take until well into the year 2013.
On September 22, 2013, the Moroccan Football Federation Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football ( FRMF ) announced the official opening date for the Stade Adrar with the 11th October 2013.
The Tribune ring of stadium construction around stage acts with its sloping facade like on an embankment built. In the spacious interior of an eight-lane track and field facility includes the field of natural grass. The ranks are fully equipped with seats. Among the approximately 45,000 seats are 5,000 VIP seats and 288 seats in the press box. This can be extended at major events around 340 seats. Highly visible distinguishing feature of the Stade Adrar are the four floodlight towers of concrete. The facility, including the lights on the roof, an illuminance of 2000 lux provides horizontal and 1800 Lux vertical.
Visitors can enter the stadium to 18 inputs with 96 turnstiles. Eight dedicated inputs, visitors in a wheelchair intake. For a quick evacuation serve 27 outputs. In the stadium area a video surveillance system with 81 cameras installed. At the stadium are about 5,000 parking spaces available. To the north of the stadium includes a training course with career and 700 lux floodlights. He has four cabins for the soccer players, two referees and eight locker rooms are available for athletes.
Furthermore, feature within the Stade Adrar a press conference room with 180 seats, several radio and television studios, a panoramic restaurant with 180 and a dining room with 200 seats. On the upper tier in the stadium curves a video scoreboard is attached at a time. A medical area with 126 square meters is used by athletes and referees alike. There are also two rooms for doping samples with 55 per square meter. Inside the stadium, 104 toilets are distributed to the visitors.
Opening Games
The stadium was inaugurated with two soccer games. First, the home team Hassania d' Agadir ran against the Algerian team JS Kabylie in Tizi Ouzou. The first goal in the new stadium scored Saad Lemti in the 76th minute for Hassaniya. After that, the national teams of Morocco and South Africa a 1-1 draw.
FIFA Club World Cup 2013
The eight games of the FIFA Club World Cup 2013 will be held next to the stadium in Agadir also at the Stade de Marrakech. Morocco also directed the tournament in 2014 with the Stade Adrar as a possible venue.
African Cup of Nations 2015
As one of six Moroccan stages is provided with the cities of Casablanca, Rabat, Fez, Marrakech and Tangier to host the African Cup of Nations 2015, the Stade Adrar Agadir.