The Basra International Stadium, in the Southern region of Iraq is the current largest Sports complex in the country.
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| Basra International Stadium, Basra, Iraq |
The facility is owned by the Government of Iraq, and building it took a period of four years from 2009 to 2013. It was officially commissioned in 2013.
The contract of the project was handed to a major Iraqi construction outfit, Abdullah Al-Jaburi, alongside two American companies, 360 architecture and Newport Global.
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| Basra International Stadium, Basra, Iraq |
Features of the Basra International Stadium:
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| Basra International Stadium, Basra, Iraq |
- Capacity of 65,227
- Has a secondary stadium with a capacity of 10,000
- Four five-star hotels
- Multilevel construction with 65,000 capacity, 20 suites and 230 VIP seats
- VIP Lounges, restaurants, spectator facilities, 205 VIP underground parking stalls
- A tunnel connecting the main and secondary stadia
- Steel roof structure, curtain wall of multidirectional curved elements which envelopes the stadium
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