Completed and opened back in November 2021, Stadium 974, the world’s first mobile stadium has concluded its main purpose in Qatar. The facility was mainly built in the Arab country to host the 2022 Fifa World Cup Round of 16 matches. The last match in the stadium was played between Brazil and Switzerland on the 28th of November.
Stadium 974, which is made up of 974 recycled shipping containers, is therefore set to be dismantled despite the World Cup not being over yet. Reportedly after being torn apart, the one-of-a-kind arena will be transported to Uruguay to help their bid to host the 2030 World Cup.
Reported earlier
Feb 2020
Qatar to build Stadium 974, the world’s first mobile stadium, in Ras Abu Aboud
Qatar is set to build the world’s first mobile stadium that can be dismantled, moved, and reassembled; ahead of the FIFA World Cup in 2022. Once completed, the 40,000-seater dubbed Stadium 974-Ras Abu Aboud will be one of the most unique stadiums on the planet. It will not only be innovative, but it will also have a remarkable design.
It will be constructed using shipping containers, seats that can be removed, and other modular “building blocks”. After the world cup, its parts will be used in other sporting or non-sporting projects, setting a new standard in sustainability and introducing bold new ideas in tournament legacy planning.
Set to be located on the shores of the Gulf, looking across to Doha’s beautiful West Bay skyline, Stadium 974 will be an incredulous venue for matches up to the quarter-finals of the tournament. Following the World Cup’s conclusion, the stadium will be dismantled and will eventually make way for a waterfront development for local people to enjoy.
Low construction cost
The strategy used for this project will mean that fewer building materials will be required than in traditional stadium buildings, helping to keep construction costs down. This is not the first sustainable project Qatar is coming up with in preparation for the world cup, the Al Thumama Stadium is a project that is also expected to have reusable utilities.
Fenwick Iribarren Architects are the visionaries behind this venue’s splendid design. Excavations are already complete and the venue’s foundations are filled with reinforced concrete. Works on drainage networks and other utilities have begun. In the meantime, the shipping containers that will become the arena’s “building blocks” are being put together.
As well as providing invaluable infrastructure to sporting projects far and wide, Ras Abu Aboud Stadium will also give global stadium developers and tournament planners a fine example to follow.
