Fredriksskans

Kalmar FF

  • Games of the Kalmar FF (1910-2010)

The Fredriksskans IP is a football stadium with track and field facility in the Swedish town of Kalmar. Nationwide gained fame as the home stadium of the football club Kalmar FF, the hundred years fought out their home games here. Among other things, the team competed in the Allsvenskan in the stadium to play.

Background

Frediksskans IP was inaugurated in 1910. The stadium currently has 8,973 spectators, 4,223 seats on the remaining 4,750 seats are standing room only. The record crowd of 15,243 spectators was erected in 1949 at a game against Malmö FF. In the season 2008, the Kalmar FF won the championship and got in the stadium the Lennart Johansson - Cup for winning the title. In March of the following year, the club also got a goal from Daniel Mendes with a 1-0 win over IFK Gothenburg the Supercupen.

Kalmar FF planned under the title " Kalmar Arena " building a new football-only stadium for up to 12,000 spectators. The original estimated cost of 170 million Swedish crowns to want to share the city of Kalmar and the club. After lengthy litigation, which delayed the construction and a price increase to around 250 million crowns had the effect began in December, the construction of the new stadium. In June 2010, this was due to a sponsor agreement the name Guldfågeln Arena and released after the end of the Premiership season 2010 the old stadium as a home ground of Kalmar FF from.

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