Argir Stadium
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Argir Stadium also called Inni í Vika Stadium is a multi-use stadium
Stadium
A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...

 on the sport site in Argir
Argir
Argir is a village in the Faroe Islands.*Population: 1907*Postal code . FO 160*Location: *Municipality: Tórshavnar kommuna*Football team: AB...

, Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...

. It is currently used mostly for football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 matches and is the home ground of Argja Bóltfelag
Argja Bóltfelag
Argja Bóltfelag is an Faroese football club based in Argir. They played in the 1. deild, the second highest division in Faroese football, and they came in as runners up in second place, so now they played in Faroe Islands Premier League in 2010. However, they ended as number 10 and are now back in...

 and Nólsoyar Ítróttarfelag
Nólsoyar Ítróttarfelag
Fótbóltsfelagið Giza is a Faroese football club based in the capital Tórshavn. The team plays its matches in Argir Stadium.The club was founded 1 January 1968 as Nólsoyar Ítróttarfelag - often abbreviated to NÍF - representing the isle of Nólsoy, even though the team played its matches in Tórshavn....

. The stadium holds 2,000 people.

New Stadium in 2010

On 29 July 2010 on the Faroese National Day the stadium Inni í Vika in Argir was reopened after being updated. AB Argir 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 and kicked the ball to the chairman of AB Argir Andrass Drangastein Mr. Drangastein also gave a speech and after receiving the ball from the mayor, he placed it in the center of the new artificial football field, ready for the match between AB Argir and EB/Streymur. The place where the football stadium is, is called Inni í Vika.
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