"The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman will attend the opening game of the 2018 World Cup in Russia," said Bader Al-Asaker, the secretary general of the Saudi Crown Prince Foundation.

Saudi Arabia will play the hosts in the opening game of the tournament on June 14 at the 81,000-seater Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. Uruguay and Egypt have also been drawn in Group A along with Russia and Saudi Arabia.

Russia's first-ever FIFA World Cup will be held from June 14 to July 15 in 11 cities across the country, Moscow, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi and Yekaterinburg.