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Wrote:
Omar Qura
Tuesday 19 January 2021
10:17 pm
Al-Ahly will open his FIFA Club World Cup campaign against Al-Duhail, Qatar, in the quarter-finals of the tournament to be hosted by Qatar on February 4 and will continue until February 11.
The match between Al-Ahly and Al-Duhail will be played on February 4 at the Ciudad de la Educación stadium, and the winner will go up to Bayern Munich, European champions, on February 8, in the semifinals of the tournament.
The Education City Stadium, which is one of the eight stadiums that will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, was inaugurated on September 3.
The stadium hosted its first official match on September 4, 2020, through the opening of the matches of the new season of the Qatar Stars League 2020/2021, where teams Al Sadd and Al Kharaitiyat met on the stadium grounds. , the preparation of which was announced in mid-June 2020.
The stadium witnessed the scoring of six goals, two of which came from Spanish team star Santi Cazorla, who moved to Al Sadd from Spanish club Villarreal last July to be the owner of the first goal. in this stadium and the first goals of the League of Stars in its new season.
The stadium also witnessed a celebration of the best player in Asia for 2019 and Qatari national team star Akram Afif, the Al-Duhail striker, who was named the best player in the Qatari League last season. from his colleague Tariq Salman, where players from the two teams lined up in an honor lane before Afif and Salman entered the field.
The stadium seats around 40,000 fans and is only seven kilometers from the heart of Doha, and can be reached by metro.
The Education City Stadium will host six games from the 2022 World Cup group stage, before a round of 16 and a quarter-final.
The stadium is located in the heart of the Education City of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and has received the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS) certificate, becoming the first stadium for the 2022 World Cup to receive this prestigious five-star certificate from the Gulf Organization for Research and Development (GORD).
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