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Omar Benrabah Stadium

building in Algeria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7596101 ↗
Source-derived summary

Omar Benrabah Stadium (Arabic: ملعب عمر بن رابح), is a multi-use stadium located in the Dar El Beïda district of Algiers, Algeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It is frequently used by the Algeria A' national football team and the Algerian Under-23 National Team. also is the home ground of Paradou AC. The stadium holds 14,150 spectators.

The stadium was used as one of the venues for the 2009 African Under-17 Championship and hosted the final of the competition.

On August 18, 2022, the administration of USM Alger agreed with the authorities of Dar El Beïda to receive the 2022–23 season at Omar Benrabah Stadium in the presence of the supporters.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Omar Benrabah Stadium” as building in Algeria. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Omar, Benrabah and Stadium can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as building in Algeria. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7596101. Authority coordinates are 36.721, 3.210. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2022.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Omar Benrabah Stadium”, its source revision and the description used here.
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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This entry incorporates text from “Omar Benrabah Stadium” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.