Tingbjerg Idratspark

Tingbjerg Idratspark is an association football facility in Bronshoj, Denmark. Nicknamed Tingbjerg Ground, it is the home stadium of 2nd Division club Bronshoj Boldklub. The facility consists of a football stadium, an artificial pitch, a single gravel pitch with artificial lights and six natural grass football pitches. The stadium has a capacity of 6,000, of which 600 is seated.

The stadium's record attendance was set in 1991 at a match between Bronshoj and Nastved in front of 2,500 spectators.

History

The area where the football pitches are today – a total of 13.7 hectares – was originally agricultural land, which Copenhagen Municipality acquired around 1900. The areas were initially laid out as allotment gardens.

In connection with the design of the residential area of Tingbjerg, which was overseen by urban planner Steen Eiler Rasmussen, space was set aside in the late 1940s for – in addition to training pitches for football – among other things an "exhibition pitch with a surrounding stadium (like Sundby, but with several running tracks.)" The entire area of Tingbjerg was built over a 15-year period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.

In 1952, five clubs from the Bronshoj-Husum area expressed interest in having practice hours at the planned football facility at Hareskovvej/Rotunden. The five clubs were Bronshoj Boldklub, who were interested in a pitch for league use; Husum Boldklub, who wanted a pitch for league use and two pitches for practice; Velo, who were interested in a pitch for league use and one pitch for practice; FIX, who initially did not specificy their wishes, and the club Somod, a non-KBU club wanting one practice pitch. However, these wishes did not materialise into something concrete at first, which was announced to the clubs in 1955.

In the 1960s, things start to change. Bronshoj received permission to use a grass pitch at Hareskovvej, before the municipality built two gravel pitches at "Tingbjerg/Terrasserne", as the facility is now called. They t