Kopparvallen

Åtvidabergs FF

• Games of Åtvidabergs FF
• Games of the U-18 European Football Championships 1999

The Kopparvallen is a Swedish football stadium in the city ostschwedischen Åtvidaberg. The stadium will host the home matches of Åtvidabergs FF.

History

In October 1915, the company Åtvidabergs Förenade Industrier based Åtvidaberg helped to build the Set in a former wetland area with state aid in the amount of 14,000 Swedish crowns. 1920 opened the football team Åtvidabergs IF with a game against IK Sleipner, which ended with a 3:6 defeat for the home team, the now fenced place.

In 1932 the sports field a stand on the halfway line. After 1935 Åtvidabergs IF had split into multiple performing specific sports clubs, has been proposed in the following year the name " Kopparvallen " to remember the copper mining in place. At the time, the stadium was regularly covered in winter with an ice rink for Bandyspiele. 1937 was the striking entrance gate made ​​of wood with the two cashier house, five years later the plant a second sports field has been added.

Once up in the 1950s, a nearby school had served as a dressing, donated Facit AB 1958 the club the club house with changing rooms. In the following years, intensified the use, so that a renovation was due. Between 1965 and 1972, the stadium was rebuilt, not least because of the success story of the supported Facit AB Åtvidabergs FF, who had risen in the Allsvenskan. In addition, new bleachers, a covered grandstand with seats as the main grandstand and opposite an uncovered standing terrace, and a new clubhouse was built. The early 1970s was the team 's leading clubs in Sweden and won two championships and twice the National Cup. Then she went to the stadium in European competition and received teams like Chelsea or Bayern Munich.

1972/73 came Facit AB into difficulties and sold the stadium to Electrolux, which a short time later sold the plant to the city Åtvidaberg. Without the sponsor 's team Åtvidabergs FF could not build on the successes and slipped into the league unterklassigen area.

In the summer of 1992, the German national team at the European Championships moved their quarters in Åtvidaberg and used the stadium as a training ground. In the same year, the clubhouse burned down, which was replaced by a new building, inaugurated two years later. 1999 returned to the international football back into the stadium as three group games were the U-18 European Championship held on the field in 1999.

After Åtvidabergs FF had established after the re-emergence in 2001 of second-rate Superettan, 2005, the re- collection of the team succeeded in the cup final. Although the team lost there against the national champion Djurgårdens IF, but was nevertheless qualified for the UEFA Cup. As UEFA Stadium gave no release, the team had to switch to Norrköping to Värendsvallen to Vaxjo and the Idrottsparken. After it became the resurgence of the club in the Allsvenskan in October 2009, came to discussions about the future of the stadium. In the ensuing winter break a few changes to the stadium was made ​​, inter alia, the seats, souvenir stalls, toilets, and the press tribune concerned. In addition, the stadium received during the summer break in July 2010, a synthetic turf.