Al Jazira Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium (Arabic: ستاد محمد بن زايد) is a multi-use stadium in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is currently used mostly for football and cricket matches and is the home ground of Al-Jazeera Club. Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... Telstra Stadium in Sydney, Australia is capable of being converted from a rectangular rugby football field to an oval for cricket and Australian rules football games This article is about the building type. ... Abu Dhabi or Abu Zaby (Arabic language: أبوظبي) is the largest of the seven emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates and was also the largest of the former Trucial States. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ... Al Jazeera Club (also spelled Al Jazira Club) is a sporting club in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ...

Capacity change

The stadiums original capacity was 15,000 but it is currently going through an expansion stage which will increase the stadiums capacity to an all seater 40,000 ultra-modern air conditioned sporting arena, and the expansion program also includes two residential towers to be built on the stadium. The project will be complete just in time to host games of the 18th Gulf Cup hosted by the UAE in January 2007. The Gulf Cup may refer to: Gulf Club Champions Cup, a club tournament Gulf Cup of Nations, a national team tournament Category: ... January is the first month of the year and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...

Trivia

• Some of the matches of the 2003 FIFA World Youth Tournament were played here.

External links

• Image of the Stadium
• Article about the expansion
• Entrance to the Stadium