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Al Shamal Stadium - Qatar 2022 World Cup - proposed designs

Qatar has won the bid to host the 2022 World Cup – it will be the first World cup to be held in the Middle East. Lets take a look at the proposed design of some of the Qatar 2022 World Cup Stadiums.

For Qatar this means that their team will automatically qualify – they have 11 years to get their team into shape!

Designboom.com recently unveiled images of stadiums, designed by German architectural firm AS & P – Albert Speer & Partner, for the bid of Qatar for the World Cup Soccer 2022. There will be three completely new stadiums and two existing stadiums that will be subject to extension.

Al-Shamal Stadium

Above is a view of the brand new Al-Shamal stadium which has a capacity of 45,120 with a permanent lower tier of 25,500 seats and a modular upper tier of 19,620 seats. the stadiums shape is derived from the ‘dhow’ fishing boat of the Arabian gulf. Spectators are expected to arrive from the Doha expressway, water taxis, the Bahrain-Qatar friendship bridge and the new metrorail.

First let’s take a look at Qatar and get to know a bit more about this small country with one of the highest GDPs in the world. We know that Dawlat Qatar is already known for its breathtaking architecture, so the proposed stadiums for the 20 22 World Cup are also very much out of the box.

Qatar – Ruled by the al-Thani Family

Qatar, also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qa?ar, is an Arab country, known officially as an emirate, in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south; otherwise, the Persian Gulf surrounds the state. A strait of the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby island nation of Bahrain.

Qatar is an oil- and gas-rich nation, with the third largest gas reserves and the first or second highest GDP per capita in the world. An absolute monarchy, Qatar has been ruled by the al-Thani family since the mid-19th century and has since transformed itself from a British protectorate noted mainly for pearling into an independent state with significant oil and natural gas revenues.

In Standard Arabic the name is pronounced , while in the local dialect it is .In English-language broadcast media within Qatar—for example, television commercials for Qatar Airways and advertisements concerning economic development in Qatar—the name is pronounced “KA-tar” (not “KAT-ar”).

Economic Growth

Qatar has experienced rapid economic growth over the last several years on the back of high oil prices, and in 2008 posted its eighth consecutive budget surplus. Economic policy is focused on developing Qatar’s non-associated natural gas reserves and increasing private and foreign investment in non-energy sectors, but oil and gas still account for more than 50% of GDP, roughly 85% of export earnings, and 70% of government revenues.

Oil and gas have made Qatar the second highest per-capita income country – following Liechtenstein – and one of the world’s fastest growing. Proved oil reserves of 15 billion barrels should enable continued output at current levels for 37 years. Qatar’s proved reserves of natural gas are nearly 26 trillion cubic meters, about 14% of the world total and third largest in the world.

The Qatari peninsula juts 100 miles (161 km) north into the Persian Gulf from Saudi Arabia and is slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut, USA. Much of the country consists of a low, barren plain, covered with sand. To the southeast lies the spectacular Khor al Adaid (“Inland Sea”), an area of rolling sand dunes surrounding an inlet of the Persian Gulf. There are mild winters and very hot, humid summers.

Football in Qatar

Association football is the most popular sport in the country closely followed by cricket. The Qatar Under 20 national football team finished second in the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship after a 4-0 defeat to Germany in the final.

The Asian Football Confederation’s 2011 AFC Asian Cup finals will be held in Qatar in January 2011. It will be the fifteenth time the tournament has been held, and the second time it has been hosted by Qatar, the other being the 1988 AFC Asian Cup.

Al-Gharafa Stadium - 2022 FIFA World Cup

Al-Gharafa stadium

The existing 21,175 capacity Al-Gharafa stadium will be expanded to 44,740 seats using modular elements forming an upper tier. the facade will be made up of ribbons representing the nations that qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup and will symbolize football and the mutual friendship, tolerance and respect that the tournament represents. the stadium will be downscaled to its existing capacity after the tournament ends.

For more pictures of Qatar 2022 Stadiums

Qatar info Source: Wikipedia

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