Olympia, Football stadium in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Olympia is a football stadium in the eastern part of Helsingborg, Sweden, with seating and standing areas spread across four stands for around 16,000 spectators. It is the home ground of Helsingborgs IF and has a natural grass pitch of standard competition size.
AB Olympia, founded in January 1897 and named after the 1896 Athens Olympics, built the ground east of Helsingborg; it opened on 31 July 1898 with cycling, athletics and football. A 1909 grant of 20,000 kronor built a 400-seat stand on the west side. The running track replaced a cycle track in 1915, and the pitch took its 105 x 68 m dimensions for the 1958 World Cup.
The name Olympia comes from the 1896 Athens Olympics, not from any local link to the ancient site. Helsingborgs IF fans sing along to The Beatles' "Hey Jude" at halftime, and "What a Beautiful Day" by The Levellers is played after a win. Section 37, renovated before the 2010 season, holds many of the club's supporter groups.
The stadium is about a 15-minute walk from Helsingborg Central Station, heading east from the city center. On match days it is worth arriving early, as the area around the ground gets busy well before kickoff.
Olympia hosted matches at both the 1958 FIFA World Cup and the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, making it one of very few grounds in the world to have staged two separate World Cups. The two tournaments were held nearly 40 years apart, on the same grass.
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