Hussein Bin Ali Stadium is an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

stadium in

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West Bank Premier League

The stadium is home to

Ahli Al-Khaleel Ahli al-Khaleel () is a Palestinian professional football team from the city of Hebron, that plays in the West Bank Premier League. History Ahli Al-Khaleel won the 2015 edition of the Palestine Cup and qualified for the 2016 AFC Cup The 2016 ...

Shabab Al-Khalil SC Shabab Al-Khaleel Sports Club (), or simply Shabab Al-Khaleel, is a Palestinian professional football club from the city of Hebron that plays in the West Bank Premier League. Honours * West Bank League (7) ** Champions (6): 1979, 1982, 1986, 1 ...

and

Shabab Alsamu Nadi Shabab Alsamu Al-Riyadhi or simply Shabab Alsamu (شباب السموع) is a Palestinian professional football club based in Hebron Hebron (; , or ; , ) is a Palestinian city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Hebro ...

in the West Bank Premier League. Playing for Shabab,

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player

Ashraf Nu'man Ashraf Nu'man Al-Fawaghra (; born 29 July 1986) is a Palestinian people, Palestinian professional footballer who plays for Shabab Al-Khalil SC, Shabab Al-Khalil of the West Bank Premier League and the Palestine national football team, Palestine n ...

scored two goals at the venue against

Thaqafi Tulkarem Nadi Thaqafi Tulkarm Al-Riyadhi or simply Thaqafi Tulkarem is a Palestinian professional football team based in Tulkarem Tulkarm or Tulkarem (, ''Ṭūlkarm'') is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, the capital of the Tulkarm Governorate of ...

in the 2016–17 season.

Palestine Cup

The 2015

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final between Ahli Al-Khaleel and Ittihad Shujaiyah took place at the stadium - the first final to be contested by the top teams from the West Bank Premier League and Gaza Strip League in 15 years. The intervention of

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and the AFC was necessary to secure permission from Israeli authorities for players to travel from the

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to the

. The match was attended by President of the

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, MK

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and the mayors of

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and

, and sponsored by the Bank of Palestine. The stadium was again the venue for the 2016 cup final, won by

against Shabab Khan Yunis.

References

{{Reflist National stadiums Sport in the West Bank Football venues in Palestine Sports venues completed in 1940 1940 establishments in Mandatory Palestine