Landskrona IP

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Landskrona IP
I.P
Landskrona IP
Location	Landskrona, Sweden
Opened	July 20, 1924 (1924-07-20)
Capacity	11,000

Landskrona IP is a stadium in Landskrona, Sweden, used mainly for football. The stadium holds 11,000 people (3500 seats), and is the home stadium of Landskrona BoIS, locally known as "I.P". It was opened by the as of then Crown Prince of Sweden, Gustav-Adolf (later King Gustav VI Adolf), in 1923.

The floodlight system produces a lighting of 823 lux^[1] and consists of four 30-metre-high (98 ft) pillars and additional lights at the roof of the south stand.

Some of the floodlight pillars fell down during a hurricane just a few years after they were built, in the mid-1960s. Since then, the steel construction pillars have been reinforced by a system of long steel wires, at two levels (at approx. half their height and at the top) between each other in a rectangular pattern, and are anchored in huge blocks of concrete. They are currently (late summer 2013) the highest floodlight pillars used for football in Sweden.

During the autumn evenings, these wires become a popular place for several species of crow birds. Thousands of Rooks (Corvus monedula) and Jackdaws, Corvus frugilegus enjoy sitting on the wires during the night; they breed in the neighbouring beech forest locally known as Karlslund. After the leaves fall off the trees, the wires rapidly get less popular though.

The south all-seater stand was built in 1973. Until 1990, the arena had running tracks for athletics. Record attendance is 18,535 from 1959;^[2] between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, crowds of 15,000 were not uncommon, and has occurred even when Landskrona BoIS has played at second-tier level. (Possibly the crows are the holders of the overall record attendance, but they dislike when the floodlights are on and then gather elsewhere). In 1991, the northern stand was replaced by a new one, but it is still an uncovered stand of terrace type. Smaller wood terraces also were built behind both goals. In 2002 the eastern wood terrace was replaced by a larger one of concrete. And the following year a concrete terrace stand was built behind the western goal. By 2005, Landskrona BoIS introduced an idea of a reconstruction of all uncovered terraces and replacing the northern stand with an all-seater stand for 4,000 attendees.

After relegation to the second tier level, the club hasn't done very well. But the average attendance during the years from 2006 to 2010 still was fairly good for Swedish second-tier football.^{[citation needed]} The management of Landskrona BoIS decided to remove the entire western stand in 2011, and replaced it with a "VIP-restaurant", in hope of gaining more sponsors. But the previous fairly good atmosphere disappeared and average attendance has fallen year by year since then. And the falling general attendances has caused many of the sponsors of the club to redraw their support.^{[citation needed]} In September 2013, another idea from the current club management was announced; the club now wants to replace the grass with artificial grass. After this idea became news in the local newspaper, the remaining supporters seems to boycott the club, as the lowest attendance for more than 15 years was noted (1,800 despite free entrance and a 4-1 victory in the previous home game; lower attendance has almost only occurred when the club has played in third tier level of Swedish football, or late autumn games without any significance in bad weather). Many local residents of Landskrona now feel it's time for a new management of the football club to take over the club. Landskrona BoIS is not owned by anyone, it's a foundational club - every member has one vote each at the annual meetings.

Apart from the stadium, the surrounding area offers several other football pitches (the so-called B-pitch even has stands of terrace type for approx 6000 attenders), six tennis courts (currently only clay, but a grass court has previously existed), a modern athletic field, an indoor ice rink and an indoor arena for handball, basketball, table tennis and wrestling etc. Below the stadium's south stand, also an indoor 25-metre swimming pool and a so-called "adventure bath" are located. Everything is owned by Landskrona municipality and available for the public (for fees and within certain limitations).

References

↑ Swedish,"belysning" means "lighting" http://svenskfotboll.se/superettan/information/?scr=venue&faid=66
↑ Swedish, last row of the "Allmän information & statistik" headline " - "publikrekord på Idrottsplatsen är 18 535 åskådare och sattes i kvalmatchen mot Degerfors 1959." at http://www.landskronabois.com/klubben/historia/

Coordinates: 55°53′24″N 12°50′15″E / 55.889934°N 12.83761°E / 55.889934; 12.83761

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Former	Arosvallen Bårsta IP Domnarvsvallen Enavallen Folkungavallen Fredriksskans Hillängens IP Motala Idrottspark Norrporten Arena Jernvallen Kamratvallen Landskrona IP Lövåsvallen Malmö IP Malmö Stadion Myresjöhus Arena Rambergsvallen Ramnavallen Rimnersvallen Ruddalens IP Ryavallen Sandåkerns IP Skarsjövallen Skogsvallen Slottsskogsvallen Stadsparksvallen Stockholms Stadion Stora Valla Studenternas IP Söderstadion Södertälje Fotbollsarena T3 Arena Trollebo IP Tunavallen Ullevi Vägga IP Vångavallen Värendsvallen

Demolished	Gamla Ullevi Herrgärdets IP Johanneshovs IP Norra IP Råsunda Råsunda IP

v t e Landskrona Boll- och Idrottssällskap

Founded in 1915 Based in Landskrona

The Club	History Players Coaching Staff Achievements Europe

Home stadium	Landskrona IP (1924–present)

Rivalries	Scanian derbies Helsingborgs IF Malmö FF

Supporters	Black & White Fanaticos Landskrona

Key Personnel	Chairman: Kenneth Håkansson Director of Sport: Mats Aronsson Manager: Jörgen Pettersson Captain: Vacant

Related articles	All articles

Seasons (90)

Allsvenskan (1924–)	34 seasons 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1944–45 1948–49 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1994 2002 2003 2004 2005

Superettan (2000–)	11 seasons 2000 2001 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Division I (1987-1999)	10 seasons 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1995 1998 1999

Division II (1928-1986)	31 seasons 1933–34 1942–43 1943–44 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1981 1982 1983 1984 1986

Swedish 3rd Division	4 seasons 1952-53 1985 1996 1997

Major honors (1)

Svenska Cupen (1941-)	Winners 1971-72 Runners-up 1949 1975-76 1983-84 1992-93

Allsvenskan (1924–)	Little silver 1937–38 Bronze 1938–39 1975 1976

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