Forum Horsens Stadium, known as Nordstern Arena Horsens for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium in

Horsens Horsens () is a city on the east coast of the Jutland region of Denmark. It is the seat of the Horsens municipality. The city's population is 64,418 (1 January 2025) and the municipality's population is 97,921 (), making it the List of cities and ...

, Denmark. Used primarily for

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, it is the home ground of

AC Horsens Alliance Club Horsens (), commonly referred to as AC Horsens () or simply Horsens, is a Danish professional football club based in Horsens, Central Denmark Region. Founded in 1994, as a superstructure on Horsens fS (founded 1915), Stensballe ...

and has a capacity of 10,400, of which 7,500 is seated. The stadium is also used for

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and as a concert venue. The adjacent indoor venue is Forum Horsens.

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were the first band to play a concert at the stadium. On 29 March 2005, Irish vocal pop band

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held a concert for their The No 1's Tour supporting their album

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's concert in 2006 became the biggest concert in Horsens history with 85,232 fans in attendance. Recent concerts at the ground have included

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in 2010 on the

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, U2 in 2010 on the 360 Tour for 2 nights,

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as part of the 2011 European leg of

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and

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on 16 June 2015 during their

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. In

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the Arena became the third venue to host the

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. The company behind the reconstruction of Casa Arena Horsens was 3XN.

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Official website

Project website

CASA Arena Horsens - Nordic Stadiums
Football venues in Denmark AC Horsens Buildings and structures in Horsens Municipality Sports venues in the Central Denmark Region Speedway venues in Denmark Horsens {{Denmark-sports-venue-stub

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