Box Bar Stadium

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Box Bar Stadium
The back of the King Fahad Mosque with the Box Bar Stadium
The back of the King Fahad Mosque with the Box Bar Stadium
Data
place GambiaGambia Banjul , Greater Banjul Area
Coordinates 13 ° 27 '23 "  N , 16 ° 34' 54"  W Coordinates: 13 ° 27 '23 "  N , 16 ° 34' 54"  W.
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Gambian national football team (1965–1983)

The Box Bar Stadium in Banjul , the capital of the West African state of Gambia , is used for local sports and also for cultural events. The unsurfaced site is on Box Bar Road (other name Wallace Cole Road ) near the King Fahad Mosque . The field was used as the national stadium in earlier years until Independence Stadium was built in the early 1980s .

In 1952 the first cup competition was held here. In the final of the GFA Cup , the Gambia United and Augustians Bathurst faced each other. The final game, which was played on July 5th in the Box Bar Stadium, won the Gambia United 2-1.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Night Matches at Brikama Nawettan The Point September 14, 2007
  2. ^ Jojo Cobbinah : Senegal / Gambia. Meyer travel guide, 2002, ISBN 3-89859-103-4
  3. ↑ Ilona Hupe: Gambia. Small vacation paradise in West Africa. Horn Ilona Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-932084-19-5
  4. ^ Rosel Jahn: Gambia: travel guide with regional studies; with a travel atlas . Mai, Dreieich 1997, ISBN 3-87936-239-4
  5. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com Gambia 1952, accessed October 30, 2007

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