Stade Moulay Abdallah

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Stade Moulay Abdallah
Stade Moulay Abdallah (2018)
Panorama picture (2018)
Data
place Avenue Hassan II Rabat , Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
Coordinates 33 ° 57 '35.4 "  N , 6 ° 53' 20.5"  W Coordinates: 33 ° 57 '35.4 "  N , 6 ° 53' 20.5"  W.
owner City of Rabat
opening 1983
Renovations 2001
surface Natural grass
capacity 52,000 seats
playing area 105 m × 68 m
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The Stade Moulay Abdallah (also Complexe Sportif Moulay Abdallah ) is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Moroccan capital Rabat . It has space for 52,000 spectators and is the home ground of the FAR Rabat football club .

history

The Stade Moulay Abdallah in Rabat, the second largest city in Morocco, was built in 1983 and opened that same year. Since then, the FAR Rabat has played its home games in the stadium. The club has been Moroccan football champion twelve times to date, with five titles being celebrated in this stadium. In addition, the Moroccan Football Cup has been won ten times. FAR has also been successful at the continental level, winning the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup once each , in 1985 and 2005. In addition to FAR Rabat, another club from the capital of Morocco, namely FUS de Rabat , Home games at Stade Moulay Abdallah. However, this smaller club mostly plays in the Stade Al Fath, which has a capacity of 15,000, and only moves to the Stade Moulay Abdallah for games with larger crowds. The national soccer team of Morocco , which has qualified for soccer world championships four times to date , also uses the Stade Moulay Abdallah as a venue for some home games.

The Stade Moulay Abdallah was one of the two venues for the 1988 African Cup of Nations . At the tournament, four games took place in this stadium, the others were played in the slightly larger Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca , which at that time was still approved for over 80,000 spectators. The stadium was also proposed by the Moroccan Football Association as the venue for the 2006 and 2010 World Cups , but Morocco applied unsuccessfully to host them. In addition to football competitions, athletics competitions are also held in the 52,000-person stadium. The Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat has been held here every year since 2008 , at which many good athletes from all over the world meet and fight for victory in the respective competitions.

The stadium was intended as the venue for the 2015 African Cup of Nations. Due to the refusal of Morocco to hold the tournament on the agreed date due to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa , the organizers were withdrawn from the tournament on November 11, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Stade Moulay Abdellah  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel Theweleit: Quarrels about the Africa Cup: Fear of Ebola - and the billion-dollar debacle. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , November 11, 2014, accessed August 12, 2019 .