Töölön Pallokenttä

Töölön Pallokenttä
Bollis
The Töölön pallokenttä in July 2014. In the background the tower of the Olympic Stadium .
Data
place	Urheilukatu 1-5 00720 Töölö , Helsinki , Finland
Coordinates	60 ° 11 '11.1 "  N , 24 ° 55' 26.3"  E Coordinates: 60 ° 11 '11.1 "  N , 24 ° 55' 26.3"  E
owner	Helsinki city
opening	1915
Renovations	2000-2001
surface	Natural grass with lawn heating
capacity	4,000 seats
playing area	105 × 68 m
Societies)
HJK Helsinki (women, Naisten Liiga ) Atlantis FC ( Kolmonen ) FC Kiffen ( Kakkonen )
Events
Games of the 1952 Olympic football tournament Games of the men's Nordic football championship 1929–1932 Games of the men's Nordic football championship 1933–1936 Games of the men's Nordic football championship 1937–1947 Final game in the Finnish Football Cup 1981

The Töölön Pallokenttä ( German  Töölö Ballspielplatz . Swedish Tölö bollplan ) is a football stadium in the Töölö area of the Finnish capital Helsinki . The football clubs Atlantis FC , FC Kiffen and the women's team of the HJK Helsinki play their home games here in the 4,000-seat sports facility. It is nicknamed Bollis . The Töölön Pallokenttä offers a total of four grass pitches and one artificial turf pitch that is used all year round. All fields have underfloor heating and a floodlight system .

history

Grandstand of Töölön Pallokenttä (June 2007)

Töölön Pallokenttä was inaugurated in 1915 and was the first football stadium in Finland. Initially the facility was privately run, from 1939 the city of Helsinki took over the maintenance of the facility. On February 23, 1919, the Finnish men's bandynational team met Sweden in an international match in Töölön Pallokenttä . The Finns won the game 4-1 against the neighboring country. Between 1929 and 1947 the home games of the Finnish national soccer team were played at the men's Nordic soccer championships in Töölön Pallokenttä. From 1934 to 1938, the Olympic Stadium was built east of the stadium . From 1948 the games of the Nordic football championship took place mainly in the Olympic Stadium. In 1952 the venue was one of the five venues for the Olympic soccer tournament . On October 17, 1981, the final of the Finnish Football Cup between the HJK Helsinki and Kuusysi Lahti took place. The 5,063 spectators saw a 4-0 victory for the HJK. Between 1999 and 2000, the then Finnair Stadium with around 10,000 seats was built directly behind the north side of Töölön Pallokenttä . The multi-purpose hall Helsingin Jäähalli , which was inaugurated in 1967 and is mainly used for ice hockey , also belongs to the entire complex . The last renovation of the Bollis was carried out from 2000 to 2001.

Games of the 1952 Olympic football tournament

During the Summer Olympics , five games were played in Töölön Pallokenttä, including three of the four quarter-finals.

Preliminary round

• July 15, 1952: Yugoslavia - India 10: 1 (5: 0) , 10,000 spectators  

Round of 16

• 21 July 1952: Hungary - Italy 3: 0 (2: 0) , 13,870 spectators  

Quarter finals

• 23 July 1952: Sweden - Austria 3: 1 (0: 1) , 12,564 spectators  
• July 24, 1952: Federal Republic of Germany - Brazil 4-2 a.s. (2: 2/0: 1) , 11,451 spectators  
• July 25, 1952: Yugoslavia - Denmark 5: 3 (3: 0) , 11,456 spectators  

literature

• Erkki Alaja: Bollis - Töölön pallokentän 100 vuotta , Kustannusosakeyhtiö Teos, 385 pages, 2015, Finnish, ISBN 978-951-851-574-9

Web links

Commons : Töölön Pallokenttä  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• atlantisfc.fi: Atlantis FC website with stadium information (Finnish)
• stadionwelt.de: picture gallery
• europlan-online.de: Töölön Pallokenttä - Helsinki (Helsingfors)
• fckiffen.fi: Website of FC Kiffen (Finnish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ stadionwelt.de: Stadiums Finland
2. ↑ stadissa.fi: Töölön Pallokenttä (Bollis) (Finnish)
3. ↑ Kilpailupaikat ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Finnish)