Sports sources in Taiz Governorate (southwest Yemen) reported on Saturday, September 7, 2024, that security forces in Taiz handed over the headquarters and stadium of Al-Saqr Sports Club to the club's administration. Al-Saqr is one of the largest clubs in the governorate.

According to the official Yemeni news agency Saba, the administration of Al-Saqr Sports Club in Taiz received the club's headquarters and stadium from the traffic police and emergency response unit. The handover was attended by the head of the committee appointed by the governor, Brigadier General Abdo Farhan, advisor to the Taiz axis commander.

The handover was reportedly made "following directives from the President of the Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad Al-Alimi, during his recent visit to the governorate."

During the handover, the deputy head of the club's administration, Riyad Al-Harawi, expressed his happiness and that of all club members and the sports community for the return of the headquarters and stadium. He noted that the return is accompanied by "ambitions, hopes, mature visions, fruitful construction projects, and aspirations that we will strive to achieve through the concerted efforts of all related parties."

He stated, "We will begin mobilizing resources, capabilities, and all means of construction, rehabilitation, and change to achieve a resurgence based on a grand project. A project that takes into account the return of Al-Saqr to a much better state than before, not only in its infrastructure and facilities but also in all its games and activities."

The headquarters and stadium of Al-Saqr Sports Club had been used as a base by the traffic police and emergency response unit of Taiz police for several years after Houthi militants, designated as terrorists, were expelled from parts of the city in 2015 and 2016.