Saudi women observe football match in Riyadh stadium for first time
Thousands of Saudi women swarmed into the country's King Fahd Stadium to watch a professional football match live on Saturday, the first time in decades for the stadium to receive female spectators.
Thousands of Saudi women swarmed into the country's King Fahd Stadium to watch a professional football match live on Saturday, the first time in decades for the stadium to receive female spectators.
The Saudi professional League game between home team Riyadh Al-Hilal and Jeddah Al-lttihad attracted nearly 50,000 spectators, both men and women.
The stadium has designated "family section" for the women spectators in the stands where they were allowed to observe the game with other family members, also an attempt to separate them from single men.
The ticket kiosks of the stadium also had women ticket sellers to serve the female spectators.
The General Sport Authority, the country's governing body for sports, announced that starting in early 2018, women will be allowed into three arenas in major cities - the previously male-only venues of King Fahd Stadium in Riyadh, King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, and Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd Stadium in Dammam.
It was October last year, Saudi Arabia lifted the ban to allow women to watch football games in the three stadiums, marking the historic first time for women to watch professional sports games.
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