Lidl Arena (until 2013 and from 2019 to 2022: Stadion Bergholz; from 2013 to 2019: IGP Arena) is located in the city of
Wil
Wil () is the capital of the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Wil is the third largest city in the Canton of St. Gallen, after the city of St. Gallen and Rapperswil-Jona, a twin city that merged in ...
in the
Swiss
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canton of
St. Gallen
, neighboring_municipalities = Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau, Herisau (AR), Mörschwil, Speicher (AR), Stein (AR), Teufen (AR), Untereggen, Wittenbach
, twintowns = Liberec (Czech Republic)
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and is the home ground of the football club
FC Wil
FC Wil (''Fussball Club Wil 1900'') is a football club based in Wil, Switzerland. They play in the ''Sportpark Bergholz'', which has a total capacity of 6,048. The club has consistently played in the Swiss second tier since regaining promotion in ...
and the
Heveltic Guards. The football stadium is owned by the city of Wil.
Stadium
The facility offers a total of 6,000 seats. Of these, 700 are seated and 5,300 are standing. The playing surface is artificial turf. The stadium has four 38-metre-high floodlight masts, which have a total of 126 lamps and provide an illuminance of 700 lux on the pitch. In the 2012/13 season, the stadium was renovated into a "Sportpark Bergholz". Therefore, FC Wil's home matches during the 2012/13 Swiss Football Championship were played at the AFG Arena in St. Gallen.
In November 2013, the Wils-based company IGP Pulvertechnik acquired the sponsorship rights to the Sportpark. The football stadium was thus officially called "IGP Arena". The company paid CHF 100,000 per year for this. At the end of 2019, the name sponsor withdrew from the contract. After a three-year search, a new name sponsor was found in 2022 in the form of the retailer
Lidl Switzerland. The stadium has since been called Lidl Arena.
It is part of the eponymous sports facility, which also contains
swimming pool
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s and an
ice hockey rink
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, that was newly built at the site of their old ground in 2013, for the cost of around 11 million
Swiss francs
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. Between 2013 and 2020 it bore the name of its sponsor
IGP Pulvertechnik, before reverting to its initial name.
[{{Cite web, url=https://fcwil.ch/sportpark-bergholz/, title=Sportpark Bergholz - FC Wil]
References
External links
Official webpage
Football venues in Switzerland
European League of Football venues
Sports venues completed in 1967
Wil
FC Wil 1900