Tripoli Stadium
The Tripoli International Stadium (Arabic: ملعب طرابلس) is a multi-purpose stadium in Tripoli, Libya. It can hold 80,000 spectators.
Crowd at the stadium in 2007 | |
| Former names | June 11 Stadium |
|---|---|
| Location | Tripoli, Libya |
| Capacity | 80,000[1] |
| Field size | 72 metres (79 yd) by 107 metres (117 yd)[2] |
| Surface | Grass |
| Opened | 1970 |
| Tenants | |
| Libya national football team Al-Ahli Al-Ittihad Al-Madina | |
It is the main venue used by the Libyan national football team in its FIFA World Cup and African Nations Cup qualifying matches as well as friendlies and other international games.
The stadium hosted many games of the 1982 African Cup of Nations held in Libya along with the 28 March Stadium in Benghazi; it was the venue for the final between Ghana and Libya. It hosted the 2002 Italian Supercup between Juventus and Parma, which Juventus won, 2–1.
Its old name (June 11 Stadium) is a reference to the date of the withdrawal of US forces from Libya, June 11, 1970.
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