Kalmar Arena, currently known as Guldfågeln Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in

Kalmar Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of ...

, Sweden and the home of Allsvenskan club

Kalmar FF Kalmar Fotbollförening, more commonly known as Kalmar FF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Kalmar. The club is affiliated to Smålands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Guldfågeln Arena. Formed on 15 June 1910, the cl ...

. The stadium is located in the area known as Hansa City, in the North West of Kalmar. The arena was completed within the date of March 15, 2011 as expected. The first game, an Allsvenskan match between

and

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is name ...

held on April 11, was attended by 11,852 fans and won by Kalmar 3–2. Kalmar Arena is also one of the arenas used for the

UEFA Women's Euro 2013 The 2013 UEFA Women's Championship, commonly referred to as Women's Euro 2013, was the 11th European Championship for women's national football teams organised by UEFA. The final tournament, held in Sweden from 10 to 28 July 2013, became the mos ...

, as Kalmar Arena, with three matches in the preliminaries as well as one quarter final.

History

The football stadium consists of 11,000 seats under roof, and has a natural grass playing field grown in place.Mattan grönare och bygget större
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football pitch A football pitch (also known as soccer field) is the playing surface for the game of association football. Its dimensions and markings are defined by Law 1 of the Laws of the Game, "The Field of Play". The pitch is typically made of natural t ...

in the stadium, the construction work also includes three pitches that will be used for practise sessions only (two with natural grass and one with artificial turf). Kalmar Arena cost about 250 million Swedish kronor and was financed jointly by

Kalmar Municipality Kalmar Municipality (''Kalmar kommun'') is a municipality in Kalmar County, southeastern Sweden. The city of Kalmar is the municipal seat. The present municipality was created in 1971, when the ''City of Kalmar'' was amalgamated with five surrou ...

and the real estate company Sveafastigheter. Kalmar Arena replaced

Fredriksskans Fredriksskans is a multi-purpose stadium in Kalmar, Sweden. It served as the home ground for Kalmar FF until it was replaced by Guldfågeln Arena in 2011. It is used for football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varyi ...

as Kalmar FF's home ground.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guldfageln Arena Football venues in Sweden UEFA Women's Euro 2013 venues Sport in Kalmar Sports venues completed in 2011 2011 establishments in Sweden