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Second Round of Al Furjan Football Tournament Begins Wednesday

Organized by the Qatar Sports for All Federation (QSFA), the second round of the Al Furjan Football Tournament will kick off Wednesday at Umm Lekhba and Duhail South.

The first match will see Al Wakrah facing Al Sadd, while the second match will see…

Qatar Wins Gold Medal in 2023 Beirut Open Taekwondo Tournament

Qatar taekwondo team player Noor Nizar won the gold medal in the youth category today during her participation in the 2023 Beirut Open Taekwondo Tournament, ranked G1, for the junior category. The event is being held in Beirut and will conclude on Wed…

AFC Holds Elite Club Coaches Forum 2023

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) conducted the eighth edition of the AFC Elite Club Coaches Forum 2023, providing an opportunity for the Continent’s coaches to hear from some of the most renowned experts ahead of the AFC club competitions kickin…

Jassim Mohammed Al Mulla, a Qatari PhD student at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Science and Engineering (CSE), and his supervisor Dr. Tanvir Alam, Assistant Professor, co-created “SoccerNet,” the first deep learning based Artificial Intelligence (AI) based model in the MENA region capable of predicting the result of a professional football match with a high rate of accuracy.

Detailed in SoccerNet: A Gated Recurrent Unit-based model to predict soccer match winners – an article published in esteemed academic journal PLoS One – the team trained SoccerNet utilizing data from Qatar Stars League (QSL) matches between 2011 and 2…

HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad congratulated on Eldar Eldarov win

His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Chairman of the General Sports Authority, and President of Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) received cables of congratulations on the wi…