Five Thousand Stadium ( ar, ملعب الخمسة آلاف متفرج), also known as Al-Hussein Stadium, is a
football-specific stadium
Soccer-specific stadium is a term used mainly in the United States and Canada to refer to a sports stadium either purpose-built or fundamentally redesigned for soccer and whose primary function is to host soccer matches, as opposed to a multi-p ...
in
Baghdad,
Iraq. It is currently used mostly for
football
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matches and is the home stadium of
Al-Hussein SC. As the stadium's name implies, it can hold 5,000 spectators.
See also
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List of football stadiums in Iraq
References
Football venues in Iraq
Buildings and structures in Baghdad
Sport in Baghdad
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