Parken Stadium
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| Løvernes hule (The lion cave) |
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| Location | Øster Allé 50 DK-2100 København Ø |
| Broke ground | 1990 |
| Opened | 9 September 1992 |
| Renovated | 200x |
| Owner | Parken Sport & Entertainment |
| Operator | Parken Sport & Entertainment |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction cost | 640,000,000 DKK (85,300,000 €) |
| Architect | Gert Andersson |
| Tenants | |
| F.C. Copenhagen Denmark |
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| Seats | |
| 42,305 (allseater) (42,765 per autumn 2006) |
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Parken Stadium (Danish: the Park) is a football stadium in the Indre Østerbro (Inner Østerbro) district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from 1990-1992.
It currently has a capacity of 41,752 at football games, and is the home ground of F.C. Copenhagen and also the Danish national football team.
In the future, the so-called "Coca-Cola stands" will be demolished and replaced by new ones. This will raise the capacity to 42,765 seats. When the work will go on, only about 35,000 spectators will be able to see the national team play their 2008 Euro qualifiers. On 2006-11-11 chairman of Parken Sport & Entertainment, Flemming Østergaard, told about the good dialog with Copenhagen Municipality about the construction permit, and the possibility about building a multiarena at Parken[1].
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[edit] History
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Parken is built on the site of former Denmark national stadium, Idrætsparken, from 1990 to 1992. The last national team match in Idrætsparken was a 0-2 Euro 1992 qualification loss to Yugoslavia on November 14, 1990, and on September 9, 1992 Parken was opened with a 1-2 defeat in a friendly game against Germany.
The stadium was rebuilt by investors Baltica Finans A/S in turn of the guarantee from the Danish Football Association, that all national matches would be played at Parken for 15 years. The re-construction, tore down and re-built three of the original four stands, cost 640 million Danish kroner.
In 1998, Baltica Finans sold the stadium to F.C. Copenhagen for 138 million DKK, and the club now owns both the stadium and the adjacent office buildings in the company of Parken Sport & Entertainment.
Parken was included in UEFA's list of 4-star stadiums in the fall of 1993, making Parken eligible for hosting the finals of the UEFA Cup as well as the now defunct Cup Winners' Cup. Being a 4-star stadium, Parken can not apply for the biggest European club game, the UEFA Champions League final, as that demands 50,000 seats.
[edit] Notable matches
| Date | Team #1 | Res. | Team #2 | Competition | Spectators |
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| 1994-05-04 | Arsenal | 1-0 | Parma | Cup Winners' Cup 1993-94 final | 33,765 |
| 2000-05-17 | Galatasaray | 0-0 (p4-1) |
Arsenal | UEFA Cup 1999-00 final | 38,919 |
| 2005-10-08 | Denmark | 1-0 | Greece | 2006 FIFA World Cup Qual. group 2 | 42,099 (stadium record) |
| 2006-04-06 | F.C. Copenhagen | 1-0 | Lillestrøm | Royal League 2005-06 final | 13,617 |
| 2006-04-30 | F.C. Copenhagen | 0-0 | Brøndby | Danish Superliga 2005-06 | 41,201 (league record) |
[edit] Concert venue
Parken is also used as a concert venue, and hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. As a direct consequence of this, and to make Parken a more useful venue in general, a retractable roof was applied to the existing structure.
Musicians like Depeche Mode, U2, George Michael, Slipknot, Metallica and Michael Jackson have performed at Parken. Eminem was scheduled to perform at Parken in 2005, but he cancelled his Europe-tour. Robbie Williams have performed there several times, in 2006 he was the first artist to perform two concerts in a row at Parken.
Once every year the TV network TV 2 Zulu organize a big concert, Zulu Rocks, and in 2006 The Black Eyed Peas, Pet Shop Boys, Kashmir, Pharrell and Mew performed.
[edit] Location
The stadium is located at coordiantes .
[edit] Notes
- ↑ Historien om PARKEN, Parken history
- ^ Flemming Østergaard, Arena- og tribunebyggeri i og ved PARKEN, FCK.dk, November 11 2006
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Tourist info from copenhagen.com
- Listing on stadiumguide.com
- WorldStadiums.com entry
| Preceded by Wembley Stadium London |
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final Venue 1994 |
Succeeded by Parc des Princes Paris |
| Preceded by Luzhniki Stadium Moscow |
UEFA Cup Final Venue 2000 |
Succeeded by Westfalenstadion Dortmund |
