Description: Babil Stadium

In 2011 Iraqi Ministry of Youth and Sports granted the implementation of new sports complex in Babil to Spanish consortium TriArena. Centrepiece of the complex will be a new 32,200-seat stadium. The venue designed by Javier Garcia Alda was initially to have single-tiered stands, but final layout will see it with two tiers.

Construction started in June 2012 and is expected to end in 2014. The football venue itself is to cost €84 million with other outdoor and indoor stadia also planned in the vicinity.