Intility Arena, also referred to as Vålerenga Stadion, is an

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stadium in

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. The stadium is the home stadium for the

Vålerenga Fotball Vålerenga Fotball () is a Norwegian association football club from Oslo and a part of the multi-sport club Vålerengens IF. Founded in 1913, the club is named after the neighbourhood of Vålerenga. Vålerenga's home ground is Intility Aren ...

, currently playing in the

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, and it has a seating capacity of 16,555 people. The stadium plans were accepted by the city council of Oslo in 2014 and by

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in June 2015. Construction started in August 2015, and the stadium opened in September 2017. The stadium was initially called Vålerenga kultur- og idrettspark.

History

Early grounds

From the 1960s till the 1980s and a short period in the end of the 1990s

Bislett Stadion Bislett Stadium ( no, Bislett stadion) is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway. Bislett is Norway's most well known sports arena internationally, with 15 speed skating world records and more than 50 track and field world records having been set here ...

was Vålerenga's home ground. Bislet Stadion also hosted speed skating and track and field events in addition to football, and hosted the

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. Poor conditions