2026: Tangier Grand Stadium among the list of the world's most architecturally prominent sports facilities – Al Yaoum 24

The Tangier Grand Stadium, known as the Ibn Battuta Stadium, has secured its place on a list of seven architecturally prominent sports facilities globally for 2026, according to the architecture-specialised website “Domus”, in a classification linked to the international “Prix Versailles” award.
This selection comes in the context of the transformations the stadium underwent following rehabilitation works, which included modernising its structural design, increasing its capacity to 75,500 seats, as well as removing the athletics track and lowering the pitch by about eight metres, with the aim of bringing the stands closer to the playing field and improving the spectator experience.
The project also saw the construction of a new roof covering an area of 52,000 square metres, with a design that combines steel cables and flexible membranes, a move that gave the facility a renewed architect…