11.10.2008
Sports Facilities
In Doha, we have a world class sporting infrastructure. Two of our stadiums were acknowledged to be the best in the world in a global contest organised by the International Association for Sports Leisure Facilities and sponsored by the IOC.
We hosted the 2006 Asia Games, putting on what has been called the best, the biggest, the most widely reported, and the highest standard of Asian Games ever. Partly as a result of this success, Qatar has recently been selected to host the 2011 Asia Football Cup.
Our Doha 2016 Olympic Games Plan will establish a new state-of-the-art regional centre for not only the sporting elite, but also youth sports, in a part of the world currently underserved by such facilities. We are also already going ahead with plans to build the world’s most advanced Paralympic Sports and facilities stadium, which will serve disabled sportsmen and women for generations to come.
Qatar already has nine major multi-purpose sports venues and more than 15 additional specialist sports venues.
