Argir Stadium, Football stadium in Argir, Faroe Islands.
Inni í Vika, known as Skansi Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium on the sports site in Argir, a suburb of Tórshavn. It has a capacity of about 2,000, of which 415 are seated, and its western side has a covered sitting area added in 2010. It is the home ground of Argja Bóltfelag.
Inni í Vika was reopened on 29 July 2010, the Faroese national day Ólavsøka, after an upgrade that gave it a new artificial pitch and a roofed seating area on the western side, funded by Tórshavn Municipality. Mayor Heðin Mortensen made the first kick, passing to AB chairman Andrass Drangastein, who placed the ball for the match between AB and EB/Streymur. From August 2013 to early March 2015 the ground was called Blue Water Arena under a sponsorship deal with the Danish transport company.
The ground is home to Argja Bóltfelag, known as AB Argir, and its name Inni í Vika refers to the Argir location. The 2010 reopening was held on Ólavsøka, the Faroese national day, with a speech by Jógvan Arge of Tórshavn Municipality's cultural affairs committee and a first kick by mayor Heðin Mortensen to AB chairman Andrass Drangastein.
The ground sits on the sports site in Argir, within Tórshavn Municipality, reached by road south from the city centre. Of the roughly 2,000 places, 415 are seated under the roofed stand on the western side of the pitch.
The ground is the southernmost stadium on Streymoy, and from August 2013 to early March 2015 it carried the name Blue Water Arena under a sponsorship deal with the Danish transport company Blue Water. Its current name, Skansi Arena, is also a sponsorship name; the ground itself is Inni í Vika.
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