Nadderud stadion is a

multi-purpose stadium A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used for multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a design philosophy that stres ...

Bekkestua Bekkestua is a town in the Municipalities of Norway, municipality of Bærum, Norway, with a busy bus terminal and a Bekkestua (station), station on one of Oslo's westbound Oslo T-bane, T-bane lines, Kolsåsbanen. It also has its own library, police ...

Bærum Bærum () is a list of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Akershus County, Norway. It forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a populatio ...

, Norway.

Association football

It is currently used mostly for track and field meets and

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 ...

matches, and is the home ground of the Norwegian

Toppserien The Toppserien is the top level of women's association football in Norway. It was founded in 1984. History Women's league football was introduced on a county basis in 1977. These leagues acted as qualification for the regional (South) league in ...

(women's) and

Eliteserien Eliteserien () is a professional association football league in Norway and the highest level of the Norwegian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Norwegian First Division ...

(men's) team

Stabæk Fotball Stabæk Fotball is a Norway, Norwegian professional association football, football club based in Bærum, a suburb of Oslo. It is part of the multi-sport organization Stabæk IF. Founded in 1912, the club's name is an archaic spelling of the sub ...

. Former tenants are

Bærum SK Bærum Sportsklubb is a Norwegian association football club founded on 26 March 1910. The men's team is currently playing in the 3. divisjon, after being relegated from the 2. divisjon in 2023. The club comes from Sandvika, the administrative ...

. Matches for the U-21 national team has also been played here. The record attendance is about 10,000, from a 1970 Norwegian Cup match where Stabæk played

Strømsgodset Strømsgodset is a former municipality in Vestfold county (from 1964 Buskerud county) in Norway which is today a part of the city of Drammen. History Strømsgodset was originally a small rural annex to the city parish of Bragernes (Drammen). ...

. Ahead of the 1996 season, a new main grandstand with seating for 2,900 people was opened, costing 15 million

Norwegian krone The krone (, currency sign, abbreviation: kr (also NKr for distinction); ISO 4217, code: NOK), plural ''kroner'', is the currency of the Kingdom of Norway (including List of possessions of Norway, overseas territories and dependencies). It was t ...

(NOK). It increased the seating at the stadium with 1,400 seats from the old grandstand. The municipality installed

flood lights A floodlight is a broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial light. It can provide functional area lighting for travel-ways, parking, entrances, work areas, and sporting venues to enable visibility adequate for safe task performance, ornamenta ...

ahead of the 2005 season. Stabæk moved to

Telenor Arena Unity Arena, previously known as Telenor Arena and Fornebu Arena, is a multi-purpose indoor arena located at Fornebu in Bærum, outside Oslo, Norway. It serves as a venue for a variety of events, including concerts, exhibitions, action shows, ...

for the

2009 Tippeligaen The 2009 Tippeligaen was the 65th completed season of top division football in Norway. The competition began on 15 March and end on 1 November. Stabæk were the defending champions. Odd Grenland, Sandefjord and Start entered as the three promot ...

season, but returned to Nadderud for the 2012 season due to financial issues. In a 2012 survey carried out by the

Norwegian Players' Association The Norwegian Players' Association ( or NISO) is a trade union for professional football, handball and ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink ...

among away-team captains, Nadderud was ranked twelfth amongst league stadiums, with a score of 2.73 on a scale from one to five. From 2009 the stadium is the home pitch of Stabæk's women's team

Stabæk Fotball Kvinner Stabæk Fotball Kvinner is Stabæk IF's women's association football, football team, started on 23 October 2008 with a core of players from Asker Fotball, Asker. Asker had lost its licence to play in the top league after a failure to meet financ ...

(SFK), who play in

, the women's top division. Before the start of the 2012 season, Stabæk Fotball has moved back to Nadderud and the team's

matches will be played at the stadium. This follows a decline in fortune of the top tier team, who were not able to pay for their rent for Telenor Arena past the end of 2011.

Athletics

The stadium hosted the

European Cup in Athletics The European Cup is a former athletics competition for European teams that was replaced by the European Athletics Team Championships, European Team Championships starting in 2009 and was organized by European Athletics Association. The European ...

, First League for Men, in 2000. Domestically it has hosted the Norwegian Championships in 1966 (arranged by (

IL Tyrving Idrettslaget Tyrving is a Norwegian sports club from Bærum, founded in 1922. It has sections for athletics and orienteering. It is named after Tyrfing in Norse mythology. IL Tyrving uses the stadium Nadderud stadion, and hosts the annual ''Tyrv ...

) and 1985 (arranged by (

Fossum IF Fossum Idrettsforening is a Norwegian sports club from Fossum, Grini, Østerås and Eiksmarka in Bærum. It has sections for cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jumping, alpine skiing, Nordic combined, orienteering, and football, and was found ...

). It annually hosts the country's largest track and field meet, Tyrvinglekene.

Bandy

The Norwegian

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 ...

final was held here on 22 February 1970 when

Strømsgodset IF Strømsgodset IF is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Gulskogen in Drammen. It has sections for association football, handball and bandy, but is best known for the top-level football section known as Strømsgodset Toppfotball, which plays in Elit ...

under a heavy snowfall beat

Stabæk IF Stabæk Idrætsforening is a Norwegian multi-sports club in Bærum, a municipality bordering on Oslo in the west. It has sections for football, bandy, handball and alpine skiing. While the football team Stabæk Fotball is the most prominent, the ...

3–1.

External links

Nadderud Stadion - Nordic Stadiums

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nadderud Stadion Football venues in Norway Eliteserien venues Athletics (track and field) venues in Norway Sports venues in Bærum Stabæk IF Bærum SK Sports venues completed in 1961 1961 establishments in Norway Multi-purpose stadiums in Norway