Pak football to play at two venues in Doha Asian Games
Bureau Report

LAHORE—Doha Asian Games Organizing Committee has reserved two venues for Pakistan’s three matches in Group-F of ongoing 15th Asian Games Football tournament.
Thirty men’s teams and nine women’s countries and regions are competing in the football competition. Pakistan is participating in Asian Games soccer show for the seventh time after 1954 (Manila), 1958 ( Tokyo), 1974 (Teheran), 1986 (Seoul), 1990 (Beijing) and 2002 (Busan).
Football takes place on nearly every day of the Games, with qualifying being held even before the Opening Ceremony on December 1.With so much action to get through, five stadiums will be used throughout the fortnight of intense competition.
The final of the men’s event will be held at the Al-Gharrafa football stadium on the last day of the Games. The other four venues are the Al-Arabi Sports Club, the Al-Sadd Sports Club, the brand new Al-Rayyan Sports Club and the Qatar Sports Club.
Pakistan, who played against Japan on November 29 (today wednesday) at Qatar Sports Club, will also play North Korea in the same stadia on 3 December. Al-Arabi Sports Club will host Pakistan-Syria tie on 6 December.
Al-Arabi Sports Club, in Southern Doha , will be used for football and rugby, with fencing and table tennis indoors. It is a well-established sports club in southern Doha and home to successful football and basketball teams. The main stadium has been extensively renovated for Games and now holds 13,000 spectators. Qatar Sports Club stadium is venues for the football, judo, karate and taekwondo. The 12,500-capacity Stadium is the most centrally located of the five sports clubs being used for the 15th Asian Games. Other three venues for soccer event :
Al-Gharrafa Sports Club : the stadium for football, the indoor hall for handball. Al-Gharrafa’s 25,000-seater main stadium is one of the newest and largest in Qatar and required only minimal work for the Games.
Al-Rayyan Sports Club : the indoor hall will be the venue for softball and hockey.It is purpose-built on a new site, will be one of the busiest competition venues during the Games. The main Al-Rayyan stadium has a capacity of 25,000, making it the joint second biggest in Qatar alongside the Al-Gharrafa stadium.
Al-Sadd Sports Club : Al-Sadd Football Stadium has been completely rebuilt for the Games and has seating for 12,000 spectators. Al-Sadd is the oldest sports club in Qatar and home to its most successful football team.