Landskrona IP
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| Location | Landskrona, Sweden |
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| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Opened | July 20, 1924 |
Landskrona IP (short for "Landskrona Idrottsplats", "Landskrona Sports Ground"), locally known as "I.P." the second home of Landskrona BoIS football club. The venue is owned by Landskrona Town but its only tenant is "BoIS", as the club is labeled locally. The arena was inaugurated in the summer of 1924, replacing the old Landskrona sports ground Banan.
The stadium is almost only used for football, and after the strange demolition of the western stand in 2011, it holds approximately 10,000 attenders (of which 3500 are covered seats) The terraced stands on the north and east side has never had any roofs. Aside from Landskrona BoIS' home games, has one Swedish friendly cap been played at the arena, as well as some matches in the UEFA 1974 Youth tournament. Perhaps better known, is the fact that the arena hosted all of the Faroe Islands home qualifications games for the UEFA Euro 1992.
The stadium is located about 3–4 km from the town's center.
The venue was formally inaugurated by Crown Price Gustav Adolf who became King of Sweden 26 years later , in the summer of 1924. Landskrona IP replaced the old sports ground Banan, where the pitch was in the middle of a simple cycling track. Unlike the old sports ground from 1893, was "IP" located just east of the magnificent beech forest Karlslund, some 3–4 km north of the town's centre. Almost at the countryside of 1924.
Allsvenskan, the Swedish top football league, began in 1924–25, with Landskrona BoIS as one of its twelve original clubs. The club had initially failed to qualify for the new national league. But much thanks to this new stadium which by 1924 standards was considered as modern and suitable for football, was BoIS given a place in the new league, which first was meant for Fässberg, a club from a Gothenburg suburb which not even had a dressing room or bath/showers for the away team. The venue was also suitable for primitive bicycle racing and perhaps also for Track and field. But the clay tracks which surrounded the pitch was shorter than the 400 meter Track and field standard. The southern grandstand had seats only, but the stand was originally only partly covered. At the northern side and behind the eastern curve terraces was constructed of earthwork stones and some concrete. Parts of the eastern curve simple was earthwork with grass on. In the western curve was no stands of any kind. During the spring of 1939 was the entire seating grandstand covered, but this meant nothing for the total attendance capacity, which remained to be around 10.000.
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