Dura International Stadium, Football stadium in Dura, Palestine.
Dura International Stadium is a football stadium in Dura, Palestine, featuring an artificial playing surface and seating arranged across multiple sections. The venue can accommodate around 18,000 spectators during matches.
The stadium was founded in 1965 and later underwent major renovations, first in 1999 and again in 2011, to modernize and improve its facilities. These renovation projects helped transform it into a contemporary sports venue.
In November 2019, the world's largest keffiyeh, measuring 3,000 square metres, was unveiled at the stadium in honour of the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. It was a recorded event rather than a permanent installation, so visitors should not expect to see the keffiyeh on display today.
Shabab Al-Dhahiriya SC, the most popular club in Palestine, often plays its domestic league games here, sometimes before capacity crowds of 18,000. The pitch is artificial turf, so surfaces are firm underfoot. The ground lies in Dura, south of Hebron; arrange transport before matchdays, as crowds fill the stands.
The stadium was named in 2018 after Houari Boumédiène, the former president of Algeria, who supported Palestinian leadership. This naming reflects connections between North African and Palestinian communities.
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