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Prince Saud bin Jalawi Sports City Stadium

multi-purpose stadium in Khobar, Saudi Arabia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4116127 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Prince Saud bin Jalawi Sports City is a multi-purpose stadium in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. It opened in 1983 and has the capacity for 11500. The venue is currently used for all kind of matches mostly for football matches. It is the home stadium of Al-Qadsiah.

History

In January 2023, the "Saudi 2027" committee, responsible for the Saudi bid to host the 2027 AFC Asian Cup, revealed the new and upgraded stadiums for the tournament. Among these is the Prince Saud bin Jalawi Sports City Stadium, which will undergo comprehensive renovations, including an increase in seating capacity and the construction of stands throughout the entire stadium.

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This entry incorporates text from “Prince Saud bin Jalawi Sports City 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.