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Veritas Stadion

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Full name
  
Veritas Stadion

Operator
  
City of Turku

Surface
  
Grass

Capacity
  
9,372

Owner
  
Turku

Location
  
Turku, Finland

Field size
  
107 x 67 m

Opened
  
1952

Phone
  
+358 2 2722000

Veritas Stadion

Former names
  
Kupittaan jalkapallostadion

Address
  
Hippoksentie 6, 20720 Turku, Finland

Profiles

Veritas Stadion is a football (soccer) stadium in Turku, Finland. It is situated in the district of Kupittaa, in an area dedicated to sporting venues. The stadium serves as the home venue for FC Inter Turku playing in Finland's premier football league, the Veikkausliiga and Turun Palloseura playing in the Ykkönen.

The stadium underwent an expansion in 2009, when a stand with 1,644 seats was built to meet the demands for the 2009 UEFA Women's Championship. The stadium has a capacity of 9,372 spectators, with 8,072 seats and 1,300 standing places.

In Veritas Stadion there are two stands opposite to each other. The old Olympic stand (Olympiakatsomo) was built for the 1952 Summer Olympics and the new, modern main stand was ready in 2003. After that the name of the stadium was changed to Veritas Stadion, having formerly been known simply as the "Kupittaa football stadium" (Kupittaan jalkapallostadion). The old Kupittaa Stadium's record attendance was approximately 15,000 spectators for the 1987 UEFA Cup match between Turun Palloseura and Italian giants Internazionale. The Veritas Stadion's attendance record of 9,089 spectators was set at the 2009 local derby between Turun Palloseura and FC Inter.

Uefa women s euro 2009 finland england crowd in veritas stadion


References

Veritas Stadion Wikipedia