20 August 1955 Stadium (, ) is a
multi-purpose stadium
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in Mohamed Belouizdad,
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
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Algeria
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. It is currently used mostly for
football
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matches and is the home ground of
CR Belouizdad
Chabab Riadhi de Belouizdad S.s.p.a (Classical Arabic: الشّباب الرّياضيّ لبلوزداد, English Translation: Sporting Club of Belouizdad), known as ''Chabab Belouizdad'' or ''CR Belouizdad'' or simply ''CRB'' for short, is a ...
. The stadium holds 20,000 people. It’s in the city.
History
Stade 20 Août 1955 was completed during the French colonial era in 1930, and since its inauguration, it has been equipped to receive about 8,000 spectators only. The viewer can see a skating side near the stands at the
1975 Mediterranean Games
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hosted in Algiers and at the
1978 All-Africa Games
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, the relay competition was held by the clock in this stadium, and was the most important stadium that France left, used by the Algerians after independence, accompanied by
Omar Hamadi Stadium
Omar Hamadi Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Bologhine, Algiers, Algeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of USM Alger. The stadium has a capacity of 17,500 people.
History
The stadium was built i ...
and
Mohamed Benhaddad Stadium
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in Algiers, and remained the stadium where Algeria receives its great guests Before the inauguration of
Stade du 5 Juillet
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in 1972 during the reign of President
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who became the home of the
Algeria national football team
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played in this stadium many unforgettable matches after independence, as they won against
West Germany
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with two goals. Over 10 years after independence in this stadium, only lost twice against
Tunisia
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in an official match and against
FC Nantes
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in a friendly match, and they beat many teams and scored draws against
Morocco
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,
Egypt
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and other teams until they played the last game in this ancient stadium on 21 March 1971 against
Mali
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and tied with two goals in each net in the qualifications for the
Munich Olympics
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and were eliminated from the competition that took place in
1972
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.
Accidents
On November 26, 1982 in the meeting of the 7th round of the
national championship
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between
NA Hussein Dey
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and
MC Alger
Mouloudia Club d'Alger ( ar, نادي مولودية الجزائر), referred to as MC Alger or MCA for short, is an Algerian football club based in Algiers. The club was founded in 1921 and its colours are red, green and white. Their home sta ...
, which witnessed a record attendance for supporters to watch the stars of the “Gijon” epic after the
1982 FIFA World Cup
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, which led to the collapse of the side stands of the stadium and the accident resulted in the death of ten supporters and the injury of more than 500 supporters. to mark the biggest tragedy that Algerian stadiums have known since independence.
On August 22, 2019, the Algerian singer and rapper
Soolking
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held a large concert which was attended by more than 30 thousand fans. He was accompanied by a group of artists namely
L'Algérino
Samir Djoghlal (born 2 May 1981), better known as L'Algérino (), is an Algerian-French rapper and singer whose family came from the Chaoui- Berber tribes in Khenchela, Algeria.
A childhood friend of JUL, he was discovered in 2001 by rapper Akh ...
,
Fianso, Alonzo and
Dhurata Dora
Dhurata Dora (; née Dhurata Murturi, born 24 December 1992) is a Kosovo-Albanian singer.
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. During entering the stadium 5 people died due to the stampede Two girls aged 19 and 22 and three boys aged 13, 16 and 21 They died during their transfer to
Mustapha Pacha hospital
Centre Hospitalo-Universitair Mustapha Pacha (French: Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Mustapha d'Alge) was founded in 1854 in the town of Moustapha (now Sidi M'Hamed) and is the largest hospital in Algeria.
This hospital center is one of 14 Centr ...
(CHU), ”said Captain Nassim Bernaoui. In the process, 32 wounded were also evacuated to the CHU of the capital. "They left the hospital the next day," said the same source..
Soolking
Abderraouf Derradji ( ar, عبد الرؤوف درّاجي; born 10 December 1989), known professionally as Soolking, is an Algerian singer and rapper. He started his career under the pseudonym MC Sool until 2013 before adopting his new stage na ...
said after the end of the concert that if he knew what happened he would have cancel the party, and one of the reasons for the accident was that tickets were sold more than the stadium capacity. with the dismissals of the boss of ONDA, organizer of the event the head of the national police and the Minister of Culture. While awaiting the conclusions of the investigation the various parties turn responsibility for the tragedy to each other. « It was 4 p.m. when the stadium's doors were opened to welcome an already large flow of fans, some of whom arrived in the morning, says Captain Nassim Bernaoui, Civil Protection communications manager. In front of the entrances, the security guards filtered the public in dribbles. The closer the time for the start of the concert, the more eager the public was to enter the stadium, "he recalls, recalling that" massive regroupings are the second major risk in Algeria».
References
External links
File stadium – ''goalzz.com''
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