Abbasid Stadium
| Abbasid Stadium | |
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| The stadium with the surrounding buildings | |
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| place |
 Damascus , Syria
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 31 '42 " N , 36 ° 17' 54" E |
| owner | Government of Syria |
| opening | 1976 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 45,000 seats |
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The Abbasid Stadium ( Arabic ملعب العباسيين, DMG malʿab al-ʿAbbāsiyyīn ) is a stadium in Damascus .
The four Syrian first division football clubs al-Madschd , al-Jaish , al-Wahda and al-Shorta play their home games in this stadium. The stadium is next to the Aleppo International Stadium, the national stadium of the Syrian national team . The stadium was opened in 1976. The stadium holds 45,000 spectators, making it the second largest in Syria after the Aleppo International Stadium in Aleppo . In 2002 the West Asian Football Championship took place in the stadium .
The stadium is named after the Abbasids who ruled the Middle East and North Africa from the 8th to the 13th centuries .