Nya Rambergsvallen, currently known as Bravida Arena for sponsorship reasons, and as Hisingen Arena for

UEFA The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; ; ) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs football, futsal and beach soccer, beach football in Europe and the List of transcontinental countries#A ...

competitions, is an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

stadium in

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

, Sweden. The project was initiated by

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; ), also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan (, ) is a professional association football league in Sweden and the highest level of the Swedish football league system. Founded in 1924, it operates on a system of promotion and relegatio ...

side

BK Häcken Bollklubben Häcken, more commonly known as BK Häcken or simply Häcken (), is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Gothenburg (Hisingen). It currently plays in Allsvenskan, the top tier of Swedish football. Forme ...

and

Gothenburg Municipality Gothenburg Municipality ( or ) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg. When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg, founde ...

to build a new 6,000 to 7,000 capacity stadium in the

Hisingen Hisingen () is the fifth-largest island of Sweden (after Gotland, Öland, Södertörn and Orust), with an area of . It is a river island, formed by the split of the Göta Älv at Bohus Fortress, Bohus, and is defined to the east and south by t ...

area of

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

History

A new stadium in the

area had been discussed for years time prior to the announcement that

and

had agreed. One of the reasons for building a new stadium is the new stadium criteria by the

Swedish Football Association The Swedish Football Association (, SvFF) is the governing and body of football in Sweden. It organises the football leagues – Allsvenskan for men and for women – and the men's and women's national teams. It is based in Solna and is a ...

which went into effect in 2014. The new stadium is being built on the same site as Häcken's previous stadium

Rambergsvallen Rambergsvallen was a multi-use stadium on Hisingen in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was used mostly for football matches and served as the home ground of BK Häcken Bollklubben Häcken, more commonly known as BK Häcken or simply Häcken (), is a S ...

which it replaced. BK Häcken held the naming rights for the stadium and announced that they would most likely sell them to an external sponsor. On 21 January 2015 it was announced that the name of the stadium would be Bravida Arena.

References

External links

Official project website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bravida Arena Football venues in Gothenburg BK Häcken 2015 establishments in Sweden 21st-century establishments in Västra Götaland County