Beirut Municipal Stadium () is an 18,000-capacity

multi-purpose stadium A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used for multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a design philosophy that stres ...

Beirut Beirut ( ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, which makes it the List of largest cities in the Levant region by populatio ...

Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...

. It is currently mostly used for

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matches.

History

The stadium was built by the French colonials in 1935.

DPHB Association Sportive DPHB, known as Al Sikkat Al Hadid Wal Marfa' in Arabic (), was a multi-sports club based in Forn El Chebbak, a district in Beirut, Lebanon. DPHB, which was the sports club of the Lebanese railways company, was mainly known ...

played at the inaugural game of the stadium, with players such as

Camille Cordahi Camille Rouhana Cordahi (; 11 September 1919 – 11 May 2011) was a Lebanese footballer who played as a forward. He is the Lebanon national team's first official goalscorer, scoring his side's lone goal in a friendly game against Mandatory Pale ...

and

Joseph Nalbandian Joseph Nalbandian (; 1919 – after 1985) was a Lebanese football player and manager. During the 1930s and 1940s, Nalbandian played as a goalkeeper for DPHB, Hilmi-Sport, Sagesse, Homenetmen, and Nahda, at club level. He also represented Leban ...

References

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