Skive Stadium

Skive Stadium (Danish: Skive Stadion) is an athletics- and association football stadium located in Skive, Denmark, owned and operated by Skive Municipality. It is currently used mostly for association football matches and is the home stadium of Skive Idrætsklub (association football) and Skive Atletik- og Motionsklub (athletics). The stadium is part of a sport center, which since 2007 has also consisted of a multi-purpose hall named Spar Nord Arena, while the stadium itself includes IAAF certified athletics and sports facilities such as six round lanes, eight straight lanes, starting blocks, electronic timing, two tracks for the long jump and triple jump, pole vault and three throw cages surrounding an association football field. The ground has a lighting installation with a light intensity of 500 lux and have been approved for televised Danish 1st Division matches by the Danish FA. Apart from hosting matches for the second highest football league, the stadium has also staged two men's youth friendlies and two European women's youth qualification games, one for the Danish national youth team. It has been known as Hancock Arena for sponsorship reasons since July 2018 and have previously been referred to as Sparbank Arena (2010–2012), Spar Nord Arena (2012–2018) and SIK Arena (2018).

Skive Stadion
Hancock Arena
View of the stadium during a match in April 2012
Full nameSkive Stadium
Former namesSkive Stadion (1944-present)
Sparbank Arena (2010–2012)
Spar Nord Arena (2012–2018)
SIK Arena (2018)
Hancock Arena (2018–present)
LocationEngvej 19
7800 Skive
OwnerSkive Municipality
Capacity6,000 (523 seatings)
Record attendance10,000 (Skive IK vs Viborg FF, 19 May 1955)
Field size105 by 68 metres (114.8 yd × 74.4 yd)
SurfaceNatural grass
Construction
Broke groundMay 1941
Built1941–1944
Opened5 June 1944 (1944-06-05)
Renovated1998–1999, 2002–2003, 2009 and 2010
Expanded1965–1966
Construction costDKK 130,000 (1944)
DKK 10 million (1998–1999)
DKK 2.6 million (2017)
Main contractorsKaj Ove Madsen A/S (2002-2003)
Tenants
Skive IK (1944–1997; 2003–present)
Skive AM (1977–present)
Arbejdernes IF (1944–1946)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.