Inni í Vika

Inni í Vika, currently known as Skansi Arena for sponsorship reasons,[2] is a multi-use stadium on the sport site in Argir, Faroe Islands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Argja Bóltfelag. The stadium holds 2,000 people and is the southernmost stadium of Streymoy island.[3]

Inni í Vika
AB vs. FC Suðuroy on 23 October 2010 at Inni í Vika; the home team won 1–0.
Former namesBlue Water Arena (2013–14)
LocationArgir, Faroe Islands
Capacity2,000 (415 seated)
SurfaceArtificial turf
Construction
Opened1983
Renovated1998,[1] 2010
Tenants
Argja Bóltfelag

From August 2013 until early March 2015, the stadium was also known as Blue Water Arena, after an sponsorship deal with Danish transport company Blue Water.[4]

Upgrades in 2010

On 29 July 2010, the Faroese National Day, Inni í Vika was reopened after being upgraded. The stadium got a new football field and a new sitting area with roof on the western side of the pitch from the Municipality of Tórshavn, which Argir is a part of. Jógvan Arge, who is chairman for Cultural Affairs of Tórshavn Municipality, held a speech and the mayor of Tórshavn Municipality Heðin Mortensen made the first football kick, kicking the ball to the chairman of AB Andrass Drangastein.[5] Mr. Drangastein also gave a speech and after receiving the ball from the mayor, placed it in the center of the new artificial football field, ready for the match between AB and EB/Streymur.[6]

References
  1. "Skansi Arena". Soccerway. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  2. "Skansin á Argjum" (in Faroese). in.fo. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  3. "Skansi Arena (Inni í Vika)". StadiumDB. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  4. "News august 2013 uk p.6". Blue Water Shipping on issuu. 19 September 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  5. "Nýtt áskoðaraskýli og graslíki á Argjum tikið í nýstlu, Røða hjá formanninum í mentamálanevndini Jógvani Arge (The speech of Jógvan Arge from Tórshavn Municipality)" (in Faroese). Vagaportal.fo. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012.
  6. "Stórur dagur á Argjum" (in Faroese). Jogvanarge.com.

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