JYSK Park is a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

stadium in

Silkeborg Silkeborg () is a Denmark, Danish town with a population of 52,571 (1 January 2025).Silkeborg IF Silkeborg Idrætsforening, (; commonly known as Silkeborg IF or SIF in short) is a professional football club based in Silkeborg, Denmark. The club was founded in 1917, reached the highest level of Danish football in 1987, and afterwards became ...

and

Young Boys FD Young Boys FD is an association football club based in Silkeborg, Denmark, that competes in the Danish 3rd Division, the fourth tier of the Danish football league system. Founded in 1918 as Silkeborg KFUM, the club is affiliated to DBU Jutland, ...

and has capacity for 10,000 spectators. The construction of JYSK Park began in 2015 and was completed in the summer of 2017. It was opened on July 31, 2017 for a match between Silkeborg IF and AGF, where the home team won 2–1 in front of 9,411 fans. Silkeborg IF’s Gustaf Nilsson became the first goal scorer in the stadium in a 2–1 win over AGF. The stadium is located in

Søhøjlandet Søhøjlandet (English: ''The Lake-highland'') is the highest lying region in Denmark and at the same time, it has the highest density of lakes.JYSK Arena. The construction of the stadium was a collaboration between Silkeborg IF ownership and

Silkeborg Municipality Silkeborg Municipality () is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 857.16 km2, and has a population of 101,574 (1. January 2025). Its may ...

, with an estimated cost of 130 Million kroner. The municipality funded 60 million of the construction with the club contributing the remaining 70 million. The track at JYSK Park consists of

artificial turf Artificial turf is a surface of synthetic fibers made to look like natural grass, used in sports arenas, residential lawns and commercial applications that traditionally use grass. It is much more durable than grass and easily maintained wi ...

.SIF studerer kunstgræs i Holland
(silkeborgif.com) JYSK Park - Silkeborg 2017

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JYSK Park - Nordic Stadiums
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