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Høje Bøge Stadium () is an
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in
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stadium of
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club
SfB-Oure FA SfB-Oure FA () is a Danish professional association football club based in the town of Svendborg, that competes in Denmark Series, the fifth tier of the Football in Denmark, Danish football league system. Founded in 2018 as an elite superstructur ...
. It has a capacity of 7,000, but the attendance record is 8,000 which happened in 1975 in a local matchup against
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in the second tier of the
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. The stadium is the historic home ground of
Svendborg fB SfB-Oure FA () is a Danish professional association football club based in the town of Svendborg, that competes in Denmark Series, the fifth tier of the Danish football league system. Founded in 2018 as an elite superstructure of Svendborg fB an ...
(SfB), and since its superstructures: ''FC Svendborg'', founded in 2008 and dissolved in 2017, as well as the merger team of SfB and ''Oure Fodbold Akademi'' (Oure FA): ''SfB Oure FA''. The latter started using Høje Bøge as their home ground prior to the 2019–20 Denmark Series season, after moving from the pitches at Hellegårdsvej / Tipsvænget.


History

The name ''Høje Bøge'' literally means "tall
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" and refers to the beech trees which surround the site of the stadium. On 9 June 1997, Svendborg fB hosted
Aarhus Fremad Aarhus Fremad (, "Aarhus Forward") is an association football club located in Aarhus N, the northern part of Aarhus, Denmark. The club will compete in the Danish 1st Division, the second tier of the Danish football league system in the 2025� ...
in a direct match for promotion to the
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on Høje Bøge, which ended in disappointment for the home side which lost 1–3 and would miss out on the historic achievement. Each summer, Høje Bøge hosts the one-day festival ''Høje Bøge Open Air'', which is organised by Svendborg fB.


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About Høje Bøge
at svendborgidraetscenter.dk
Høje Bøge Open Air
at højebøgeopenair.dk Football venues in Denmark Buildings and structures in Svendborg Municipality Sports venues in the Region of Southern Denmark Sports venues completed in 1930 1930 establishments in Denmark {{Denmark-sports-venue-stub