Nammo Stadion

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Nammo Stadion
Location Raufoss
Norway
Coordinates 60°43′16″N10°36′09″E / 60.721030°N 10.602567°E / 60.721030; 10.602567 Coordinates: 60°43′16″N10°36′09″E / 60.721030°N 10.602567°E / 60.721030; 10.602567
Capacity 1,800 [1]
Field size105 by 68 metres (114.8 yd × 74.4 yd)
Surface Artificial turf
Construction
Built2015
Opened13 June 2015
Expanded2016
Tenants
Raufoss Fotball (association football)

Nammo Stadion is a football stadium located at Raufoss, Norway, and is the home of Norwegian 1. divisjon club Raufoss. The stadium has a current capacity of 1,800 spectators. [1]

Stadium Place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events

A stadium is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.

Raufoss municipal centre of Vestre Toten, Norway

Raufoss is the municipal centre of Vestre Toten, a municipality in the county of Oppland, Norway, 10 kilometers south of the larger town Gjøvik. It has approximately 7,000 inhabitants.

Norway Country in Northern Europe

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northwestern Europe whose territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard are also part of the Kingdom of Norway. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.

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History

Plans for a new stadium for Raufoss Fotball were announced as early as November 2006. [2] The construction costs were estimated to NOK 25 million and the planned capacity was 6,000 of which 2,000 were seated. Problems with funding delayed the project several years, and in 2014, Raufoss Fotball announced to Oppland Arbeiderblad that they would have to withdraw from the project without funding guarantees from Raufoss municipality. [3]

Norwegian krone currency of Norway

The krone[ˈkruːnə], plural kroner, is the currency of Norway and its dependent territories. It is subdivided into 100 øre, which have existed only electronically since 2012. The name translates into English as crown.

Oppland Arbeiderblad (OA) is a newspaper based in Gjøvik, Norway.

Nammo Stadion was opened on 13 June 2015. Raufoss won the opening game against Sprint-Jeløy with the score 3–1. [4] In 2016, after Raufoss' promotion to the second tier, Raufoss was given NOK 1,500,000 from Oppland County municipality for facility upgrades, including under-soil heating, floodlights and increased under-roof seating capacity. [5]

SK Sprint-Jeløy

Sportsklubben Sprint-Jeløy is a Norwegian football club from Jeløya in Moss. The club was founded in 1926 when both Jeløy IF and SK Sprint was formed. The two clubs merged into Sportsklubben Sprint-Jeløy on 11 October 1940.

A county municipality is a Norwegian public elected body that is responsible for certain public administrative and service tasks within a county. Each county consists of county municipality, with the exception of Oslo, which is both a municipality and a county municipality. The main responsibility of the county municipalities are upper secondary schools, dental care, public transport, county roads, culture, cultural heritage management, land use planning and business development.

Under-soil heating is a method used in various sports stadia which heats the underside of the pitch to avoid any elements from bad weather, such as snow and ice, from building up and ultimately helps the club avoid having to postpone any matches.

Attendances

This shows the average attendance on Raufoss' home games since the 2016 season, the first full season after the opening of Nammo Stadion.

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2. divisjon
Attendance
SeasonAvgMinMaxRankRef
2016 7662671,17511Dagger-14-plain.png [6]
2017–2018 N/A
2019 1,1567472,1579Dagger-14-plain.png [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Nammo Stadion". Raufoss Fotball. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Raufoss får ny stadion". nrk.no. NRK. 4 November 2006. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Ny stadion på Raufoss fortsatt usikkert". oa.no. Oppland Arbeiderblad. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  4. ↑ Børresen, Erik (16 September 2015). "Før kampen: Ørn Horten". bredde.raufossfotball.no (in Norwegian). Raufoss Fotball Bredde. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  5. ↑ "1,5 millioner til Raufoss stadion". oppland.no (in Norwegian). Oppland county municipality. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "Tilskuertall 2016". Norsk Internasjonal Fotballstatistikk. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "Tilskuertall 2019". Norsk Internasjonal Fotballstatistikk. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
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