Karbala Sports City
Karbala Sports City is a stadium in Iraq that opened in 2016. Its recorded capacity is 30,000.
Key facts
Karbala Sports City is a stadium in Iraq that opened in 2016. Its recorded capacity is 30,000. It is owned by federal government of Iraq. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are Iraq men's national football team, Karbalaa FC, Karbalaa FC.
- Location
- Iraq
- Type
- Stadium
- Capacity
- 30,000
- Opened
- 2016
- Status
- Active
- Current owner
- federal government of Iraq
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
- Playing surface
- Natural grass
Karbala Sports City is at latitude 30.4403, longitude 47.7808, Iraq. The marker is drawn from the recorded coordinates. The building outline appears here once OpenStreetMap footprint geometry is available for this venue.
Data table for this chart
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Latitude | 30.4403 |
| Longitude | 47.7808 |
| City | Not recorded |
| Region | Not recorded |
| Country | Iraq |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Technology
| Feature | Recorded as | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | Natural grass | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
See the venue technology guides for how these work.
Naming rights
No naming history is recorded for this venue.
Ownership and operation
| Role | Organization | Period | Status | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | federal government of Iraq | 2016 to present | Current | Wikidata statement | Source |
Tenants
| Tenant | Competitions | Period | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iraq men's national football team | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Karbalaa FC | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Karbalaa FC | Not mapped | 2016 to present | Current | Source |
Recorded changes
9 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2026 | venue_features | (created) | not set | 1278 | 2026-10 |
| 24 September 2026 | venue_roles | (deleted) | 33495 | not set | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 33495 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1372209383 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Karbala_International_Stadium | Karbala International Stadium | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 19064 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 19063 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 7008 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 7007 | 2026-09 |
Sources and licenses
Every ownership, naming and sponsorship row on this page carries the URL it was derived from. The site as a whole is built from these sources:
- Wikidata: CC0 1.0. Data from Wikidata, released under CC0 1.0 Universal.
- OpenStreetMap: ODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
- Wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Row-level sources used for this venue: