Veritas-Stadion

Turku PS Inter Turku

• Summer Olympic Games 1952
• European Football Championship Women 2009

The Veritas Stadion is a football stadium in the Finnish city of Turku, in the district Kupittaa. It mainly serves as a venue for the two football clubs Turku PS and Inter Turku, both in the First Division, the highest Finnish football league play.

The stadium currently has a capacity of 9,000 seats, of which 6,400 seats. Currently, the stadium has two stands that are located on the sides of the playing field.

The old grandstand ( Olympiakatsomo ) was built in 1952 for the Olympic Games in Helsinki. After the renovation in 2003, in which, on the opposite side of a new, modern grandstand was built, the name was changed from Kupittaan jalkapallostadion (German football stadium Kupittaa ) in Veritas Stadium.

The stadium record in the old Kupittaan jalkapallostadion of 1987 was 15,000 spectators at the UEFA Cup match between Turku PS and Inter Milan. The attendance record in the new stadium is 9,089 spectators, which came at the Derby between Turku PS and Inter Turku in 2009.

The Veritas Stadium was one of the five venues of the European Football Championship Women 2009. Purpose, the two stands behind the goals were expanded by more than 1,600 seats to the requirements of UEFA to meet. In the stadium, which was called during the EM Turku Stadium, four preliminary rounds and quarter finals were played.