Svangaskar Football Stadium

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History

The stadium on Svangaskarð was first opened in 1980. It was just a gravel pitch for the first few years. The stadium facilities were somewhat rudimentary in 1980, there wasn’t any building to house the changing rooms, just a simple hut. In 1984 they built some proper changing room facilities for the players, the same year B68 Toftir won their first Faroese Championship. In 1987 artificial grass was laid on the pitch and two years later, on 8 July 1989, they added an athletics strip around the football field in time for the Island Games which were held in the Faroe Islands for the first time. A grass pitch was first laid in 1990 to 1991. The work started in November 1990 shortly after the Faroe Islands won against Austria in Landskrona in Sweden.

The record attendance for a football match in the Faroe Islands was set at the stadium in 1998 when the Faroe Islands won 2-1 against Malta, the attendance was 6,642.[4] The Svangaskard stadium also hosts the home matches of B68 Toftir.