Gutavallen
Coordinates: 57°38′7″N 18°17′51″E / 57.63528°N 18.29750°E
Gutavallen is an outdoor sport stadium located in Visby, Sweden. It was built in 1929 and is used for football as well as athletics, but occasionally the arena is also used for concerts. Gutavallen is the home arena of FC Gute and Visby AIK.[1]
The stadium has two stands—one on each long side—with the main stand seating 550 spectators. The original main stand was burned down in 1998, but was quickly rebuilt the following year.[2] Gutavallen has a total spectator capacity of 5,000 – this is also the record which was set on April 1, 1995, when the football club then named Visby IF Gute took on the Allsvenskan team IFK Göteborg in a game at the 1994–95 Svenska Cupen which the away team Göteborg won 4–0.[3][4]
At the time that Gutavallen originally was built, it did not have an all-weather running track, which was first added in 1975. Between March and August 2013, the running track was replaced due to the track's floor being worn out.[2] For this reason, FC Gute played their home games on an artificial pitch called "Rävhagens konstgräs", located in Visby (konstgräs: artificial turf), until the maintenance work at Gutavallen finished in the middle of August 2013.
Gutavallen has been the venue for the Sweden national football team's training camps a couple of times; in 2006 prior to the FIFA World Cup that year, as well as prior to the UEFA Euro 2012 tournament.
References
- ↑ Gunnar Bäck (2009-06-18). "Rädda Gutavallen och Hällarna" (in Swedish). Helagotland. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mattias Karlsson (2011-08-11). "Centerpartiet kräver nya löparbanor 2012" (in Swedish). Helagotland. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
- ↑ Ulf Jönsson (2008-04-08). "Henke Larsson mot FC Gute" (in Swedish). Helagotland. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
- ↑ "Publikmatch på Gutavallen i dag?" (in Swedish). Gotland.net. 2002-04-16. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
External links
| ||||||||||||||||||||