- Address: Al-Quds Street, Doha
- Country: Qatar
- Capacity: 44,000
- Opened: 22 October 2021
- Main use: Football
- Tenants:
Extra stadium info – Al-Thumama Stadium
The construction of the stadium named Al-Thumama Stadium started in 2017. It opened with a football match. The game was won by Al-Sadd, the first football club from Qatar with 10 domestic top-flight league titles. In 1989, Al-Sadd were crowned Asian football champions for the first time in their history. Al-Duhail, Al-Rayyan and Al-Sadd were the football clubs from Qatar with at least 100,000 followers on their main social media page when Al-Thumama Stadium opened.
2022 FIFA World Cup matches at Al-Thumama Stadium
On 21 November 2022, Al-Thumama Stadium hosted its first-ever FIFA World Cup match. The national football team of the Netherlands won the world championship game after beating Senegal. Cody Gakpo and Davy Klaassen both scored for the Netherlands in that match. The national football teams of Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, the French Republic, Iran, Morocco, Poland, the Portuguese Republic, Qatar, Senegal, Spain and the United States also played at Al-Thumama Stadium during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The national football teams of Morocco and the Portuguese Republic
The last 2022 FIFA World Cup game at the venue named Al-Thumama Stadium was won by the national football team of Morocco. They defeated the Portuguese Republic, commonly known as Portugal, in the quarter-final of the tournament. 44,000 people attended the FIFA World Cup match. It was the last FIFA World Cup game for the Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro. He became the second person in the world with 100 million followers on his or her main social media page. The national football team of Morocco faced the French Republic, commonly known as France, in their 2022 FIFA World Cup semi-final. It was the first-ever FIFA World Cup semi-final for Morocco. They lost the world championship match against the French Republic.
