Høje Bøge Stadium

Høje Bøge Stadium (Danish: [ˈhʌjə ˈpøːjə]) is an association football stadium in Svendborg, Denmark. It is the home stadium of Danish 2nd Division club SfB-Oure FA.[5] It has a capacity of 7,000, but the attendance record is 8,000 which happened in 1975 in a local matchup against Odense Boldklub in the second tier of the Danish football league system.[1]

Høje Bøge
Full nameHøje Bøge Stadium
LocationSkovvej 18
DK-5700 Svendborg
Coordinates55°3′16.6″N 10°35′42.0″E
Capacity7,000
Record attendance8,000 (Svendborg fB vs Odense Boldklub, 1975)[1]
Field size102 by 65 metres (111.5 yd × 71.1 yd)
SurfaceNatural grass
Construction
Built1930[2]
Renovated1994[3][4]
Tenants
Svendborg Boldklub (1930–1962)
Svendborg fB (1962–present)
FC Svendborg (2008–2017)
SfB-Oure FA (2019–present)[5]

The stadium is the historic home ground of Svendborg fB (SfB), and since its superstructures: FC Svendborg, founded in 2008 and dissolved in 2017, as well as the merger team of SfB and Oure Fodbold Akademi (Oure FA): SfB Oure FA. The latter started using Høje Bøge as their home ground prior to the 2019–20 Denmark Series season, after moving from the pitches at Hellegårdsvej / Tipsvænget.[5]

History

The name Høje Bøge literally means "tall beeches" and refers to the beech trees which surround the site of the stadium.

On 9 June 1997, Svendborg fB hosted Aarhus Fremad in a direct match for promotion to the Danish Superliga on Høje Bøge, which ended in disappointment for the home side which lost 1–3 and would miss out on the historic achievement.[6][7]

Each summer, Høje Bøge hosts the one-day festival Høje Bøge Open Air, which is organised by Svendborg fB.[8]

References
  1. "SfBs historie". sfb.dk. Svendborg fB. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  2. "År 1900-1949". svendborghistorie.dk. Svendborg Historie. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  3. "Høje Bøge". svendborgidraetscenter.dk. Svendborg Idrætscenter. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  4. "Budget 2016, Anlæg 2016 - 2019: Investeringsoversigt" (PDF). svendborg.dk. Svendborg Municipality. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  5. Hounsgaard, Hardy (31 July 2019). "19 sejre i træk: Svendborg-Oure slog endnu et 2. divisionshold". fyens.dk. Fyens Stiftstidende. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  6. "Den fynske kamp på anden række". tipsbladet.dk. Tipsbladet. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  7. Balle, Ricky; Rehn, Niklas; Wittendorf, Nicolaj; Anthonsen, Kenneth. "Aarhus Fremad - Historien". aarhus-fremad.dk. Aarhus Fremad. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  8. "Høje Bøge Open Air". sfb.dk. Svendborg fB. Retrieved 24 June 2020.


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