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Althawra Sports City Stadium

Coordinates: 15°24′43.13″N 44°12′5.65″E / 15.4119806°N 44.2015694°E / 15.4119806; 44.2015694
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Al-Thawra Sports City Stadium
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Full nameAl-Thawra Sports City Stadium
LocationAl-Thawra Street, Sana'a, Yemen
Coordinates15°24′43.13″N 44°12′5.65″E / 15.4119806°N 44.2015694°E / 15.4119806; 44.2015694
Capacity30,000 (before bombings)
SurfaceGrass
Opened1986
Tenants
Yemen national football team

Al-Thawra Sports City Stadium (Arabic: مدينة الثورة الرياضية), also known as the Ali Mohsen al-Muraisi Stadium (Arabic: ملعب علي محسن المريسي), is a multi-purpose stadium in San‘a’, Yemen. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium had a capacity of 30,000 people before bombings and it opened in 1986. It is currently the home ground of the Yemen national football team.[1]

During the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen at the Yemen War, the stadium was destroyed by a Saudi Arabian air strike. In 2016, the stadium suffered bomb damage again.[2]

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  1. ^ "Infos about Yemeni stadiums (worldstadiums.com)". Archived from the original on 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
  2. ^ "Al-Thawra sports stadium in Sanaa was hit lastnight by Saudi jets with 5+ sorties. Yemen - Interactive map of Yemen war - Yemen news live map- yemen.liveuamap.com". Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2016-12-12.
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