The paper said the tanks will be manufactured by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall.
In April, Krauss-Maffei said it had won a USD 2.5 billion contract to supply artillery systems and 86 tanks to Qatar of which 62 would be of armoured Leopard-2 type, Germany's main battle tank.
The company said those tanks will progressively replace Qatar's current fleet of French and South African armoured vehicles.