Qatar final venue 98.5% complete

Work on Qatar’s Lusail Stadium, which will host the 2022 World Cup final, is nearly complete, an official said yesterday, with only systems checks and commissions left to tackle. “We are at approximately 98.5 per cent completion,” Tamim El Abed, project manager for the stadium, told AFP.

“The structural works, the civil works, the steel works, the roof works are all 100 per cent complete.”