King Abdullah Football Stadium and Sports City to be the templates for the new sports complexes Saudi Arabia has announced plans to build 11 new stadia – three more than Qatar is constructing for the football World Cup. Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, on... » Read more

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In a triple bonanza for India, it will host the Twenty 20 Cricket World Cup competition in 2016, Cricket World Test Championship 2021 and the 50-over Cricket World Cup in 2023, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced at its annual conference in London on June 28, 2014. The World Test... » Read more

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Qatar is set to host the 24th edition of the World Men’s Handball Championship next year. The tournament will be held from 15th of January to 1st of February, 2015 and make Qatar will only the second country in the Middle East to have hosted the event after Egypt in 1999. The games of the... » Read more

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In less than four years, the UAE is poised to host its largest and most prestigious football tournament – the 2019 Asian Cup. The Asian Cup was last held in the UAE in 1996, when Saudi Arabia defeated the hosts in the final, via a penalty shootout. The 2019 Asian Cup has been expanded from 16... » Read more

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Dubai is set to build a landmark stadium with a seating capacity of 60,000, according to latest media reports. The stadium, which will cost AED 3 billion ($816 million), will be named after the Gulf emirates’ ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is also the Vice-President and... » Read more

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Oman last year tendered four new stadium projects across the country. While the government announced it plans to construct two new sports complexes in the governorates of North A’Sharqiyah and South Al Batinah and a new stadium in Mussandam, the existing Al Sa’ada Sports complex in... » Read more

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