Råsunda Stadium

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Råsunda Stadium
Aerial photo from February 2013
Aerial photo from February 2013
Data
place SwedenSweden Solna , Sweden
Coordinates 59 ° 21 '46 "  N , 17 ° 59' 46.7"  E Coordinates: 59 ° 21 '46 "  N , 17 ° 59' 46.7"  E
classification 4th
owner Svenska Fotbollförbundet
opening May 17, 1937
First game April 18, 1937
AIK Solna - Malmö FF 4-0
Renovations 1982-1985
Extensions 1958
demolition November 2012–2013
surface 105 × 68 m
architect Birger Borgström
Sven Ivar Lind
capacity 36,608 seats
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Events

The Råsundastadion (full name: Råsunda fotbollsstadion ) was a Swedish football stadium . It was in Solna , a municipality in the province of Stockholm County . 75 years after its inauguration in 1937, the stadium was demolished from November 2012 until 2013.

On June 29, 1958, the stadium hosted the final of the 1958 World Cup . In front of 51,800 spectators, Brazil defeated hosts Sweden 5-2 and won the title for the first time.

The attendance record of more than 52,000 was set in September 1965 when Sweden lost 2-1 in the decisive qualifying game for the 1966 World Cup in England after Torbjörn Jonsson led and Uwe Seeler and Werner Kramer scored 2-1.

history

A smaller stadium, the Råsunda IP , had been located on the site of today's stadium since 1910 and had a capacity of 12,000. Among other things, it was the venue for a number of football games during the 1912 Summer Olympics . The new Råsunda Stadium, inaugurated in 1937, was owned by Svenska Fotbollförbundet and the Swedish men's national football team played their home games here until 2012. In addition, all AIK Solna games and all derbies of the Stockholm teams from Allsvenskan , the first Swedish football league, were played.

The first game took place before the opening. On April 18, 1937, AIK Solna received the Malmö FF . The hosts won 4-0 goals. For the official inauguration, the team from Sweden met England (0: 4). Originally the stadium held 40,000 spectators, but was converted for the 1958 World Cup to accommodate around 50,000 spectators. It was u. a. the final of the World Cup tournament was also played in the Råsundastadion. In 1995 the stadium was also the venue for the final of the 1995 Women's World Cup . It is the first stadium in which both a men's and a women's soccer World Cup were played.

The attendance record came from September 26, 1965. The venue was filled with 52,943 fans for the World Cup qualifier between Sweden and Germany . The highest number of visitors to a league game had the game on October 11, 1959 between Djurgårdens IF and IFK Göteborg . The game drew 48,894 spectators to the Råsundastadion. In the end, however, it only offered 36,608 places. On August 15, 2012, the match between Sweden and Brazil , in memory of the 1958 World Cup final, was the last international match in Råsunda Stadium. From December 2009 to October 2012, the successor Friends Arena , also located in Solna, was built, just under a kilometer northeast of the old stadium.

The day after the last group match of the UEFA Europa League between AIK Solna and SSC Napoli (1: 2) on November 22nd, 2012, during which there was a farewell choreography by the AIK fans, the demolition work on the old national stadium began. Immediately after the end of the game, fans secured numerous memorabilia and were allowed to visit the old venue for the last time the following day for this purpose.

700 apartments and 19,000 square meters of office space are to be built on the old stadium site.

Grandstands

  • Total capacity: 36,608 seats
  • West stand: 3,545 seats
  • North stand, upper tier: 3,502 seats
  • North stand, lower tier : 8,042 seats
  • East stand, upper tier: 5,387 seats
  • East stand, lower tier: 3,621 seats
  • South stand, upper tier: 3,635 seats
  • South stand, lower tier : 8,332 seats
  • Disabled spaces : 38 spaces
  • Box seats: 309 seats
  • Press stand: 197 seats

gallery

  • Råsunda Idrottsplatts - previous stadium (photo from 1912)

  • North Stand

  • West stand

  • East Stand (left)

  • South Stand

  • The high-rise office building on the south-west corner of the stadium

  • The Friends Arena is the successor to the Råsundastadion

Web links

Commons : Råsundastadion  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ stadionwelt.de: Råsunda - a piece of stadium history before the demolition Article dated November 9, 2011
  2. ↑ bolletinen.se: Audience numbers (Swedish; PDF; 11 kB)
  3. ↑ aik.se: Stadium plan ( Memento from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)
  4. ↑ fifa.com: Rasundastadion receives farewell game article from November 8, 2011
  5. ↑ AIK - NAPOLI November 22, 2012, ultras-tifo.net, November 25, 2012, accessed on June 27, 2017 (English)
  6. ↑ de.uefa.com: AIK prepares farewell to Råsunda Article from November 21, 2012
  7. ↑ stern.de: Sweden's Råsunda national stadium is being demolished  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article from November 23, 2012 (no longer available)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stern.de  
  8. ↑ rp-online.de: "Rasunda" cult site in Stockholm Fans help with the demolition of the national stadium Article from November 27, 2012
  9. ↑ fastighetssverige.se: Så här blir nya Råsunda article from November 23, 2012 (Swedish)