Hillerød Stadium ( da, Hillerød Stadion) is a multi-use sports complex in
Hillerød
Hillerød () is a Denmark, Danish town with a population of 35,357 (1 January 2022)[football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...]
matches and is the home stadium of
Hillerød Fodbold
Hillerød Fodbold is a Danish association football club, located in the district of Ullerød in the western part of Hillerød, that is an independent men's football department of the sports club, Hillerød Gymnastik- og Idrætsforening (HGI). The ...
. The complex was earlier the site of the Selskov Stadium and was used for
motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...
events, often with crowds in excess of 10,000.
Football
Frederiksborg Slotssogn stood behind the 1958 construction of a new sports facility at the Selskov Stadium (which itself was built in 1954), consisting of a couple of association football fields and a small changing room on a hill. Selskov Stadium was expanded in 1977, with three new association football fields established.
In 1986, a new clubhouse was constructed and funded by the city council. For several years, up until 1990, the athletic course in the southwest corner of the stadium had been used for motorcycle speedway races, often gathering attendances of up to 10,000 people, but new safety regulations and several noise complaints from neighbors resulted in this activity being moved to Slangerup. Speedway had worn out the running tracks at the athletic ground.
A new athletic ground was inaugurated in 1997 and the Selskov Stadium changed its name to Hillerød Stadium. In 2005, Hillerød Municipality constructed a new association field at the area behind Ødammen in the east section of the sports center, which was officially inaugurated in 2008.
Speedway
In 1954, the Frederiksborg Amts Motorklub (FAM) built a 400 metres speedway track, which became known as the Selskov Stadium. It opened on 22 August 1954 and soon became the chosen stadium for major Danish speedway events, replacing the
Amager speedway track in Copenhagen as the first choice venue.
It regularly hosted qualifying rounds of the
Speedway World Championship
The World Championship of Speedway is an international competition between the highest-ranked motorcycle speedway riders of the world, run under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). The first official championsh ...
from 1959 to 1974 and also held the
Danish Speedway Championship on multiple occasions from 1956 to 1983.
The track record holder was the legendary rider
Erik Gundersen
Erik Gundersen (born 8 October 1959 in Esbjerg, Denmark) is a former motorcycle speedway rider in the late 1970s and 1980s. Gundersen is one of the most successful speedway riders of all time. He was the ...
who recorded a time of 73.3 seconds on 21 August 1983.
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The last meeting on the track was held on 8 September 1985, following new safety regulations and several noise complaints from neighbours. Frederiksborg Amts Motorklub moved to the Slangerup Speedway Center.
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References
Football venues in Denmark
Speedway venues in Denmark
Sports venues in Denmark
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