Heden is a ballcourt and public space and square in the centre of

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 ...

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. Football matches are played there in the run-up to the final of the

Gothia Cup The Gothia Cup () is an international youth association football tournament organized by professional football club BK Häcken, which has been held annually since 1975 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Considered the biggest tournament in the world in terms ...

. The final is played at

Ullevi Ullevi, sometimes known as Nya Ullevi (, ''New Ullevi''), is a multi-purpose stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but since then has also hosted the World Allround Speed Skating Championships six times; the ...

. Also the largest handball tournament in the world is played there during the summer:

Partille Cup Partille Cup, started by the handball club IK Sävehof, is the world's largest annual tournament in handball in terms of number of participants. The tournament is played every year during one week in July by young people in the ages between 10 and 2 ...

, when Heden is transformed to a handball festival with over 50 playing fields and 15,000 players. An artificial

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The playin ...

ice has recently been established and

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play their home matches there. At the

2013 Bandy World Championship The 2013 Bandy World Championship was an edition of the top annual event in international bandy, held between January 23 and February 3, 2013, in Norway and Sweden. 14 countries participated in the 2013 championships: Belarus, Finland, Kazakhstan, ...

, the group match between

and

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was played at the Heden arena.Image showing Sweden and playing each other at the 2013 Bandy World Championship
/ref> Before its public use, Heden was a military ground where they used to drill soldiers (Excersis''heden'').

References

Sources

Gothia Cup Facts & Stats

Partille Cup week programme

External links

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