Althawra Sports City Stadium Explained

Stadium Name:Al-Thawra Sports City Stadium
Fullname:Al-Thawra Sports City Stadium
Location:Al-Thawra Street, Sana'a, Yemen
Opened:1986
Surface:Grass
Tenants:Yemen national football team
Seating Capacity:30,000 (before bombings)

Al-Thawra Sports City Stadium (Arabic: مدينة الثورة الرياضية), also known as the Ali Mohsen al-Muraisi Stadium (Arabic: ملعب علي محسن المريسي), is a multi-purpose stadium in San‘a’, Yemen. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium had a capacity of 30,000 people before bombings and it opened in 1986. It is currently the home ground of the Yemen national football team.[1]

During the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen at the Yemen War, the stadium was destroyed by a Saudi Arabian's air strike. In 2016, the stadium suffered bomb damage again.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Infos about Yemeni stadiums (worldstadiums.com) . 2015-04-02 . 2017-07-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170706092555/http://www.worldstadiums.com/middle_east/countries/yemen.shtml . live .
  2. Web site: Al-Thawra sports stadium in Sanaa was hit lastnight by Saudi jets with 5+ sorties. Yemen - Interactive map of Yemen war - Yemen news live map- yemen.liveuamap.com . 2016-12-12 . 2016-12-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161221010255/http://yemen.liveuamap.com/en/2016/13-september-althawra-sports-stadium-in-sanaa-was-hit-lastnight/comments . live .