Keskuskenttä is a multi-purpose stadium

Multi-purpose stadium

Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed in such a way as to be easily used by multiple sports. While any stadium could potentially host more than one sport, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity...

 in Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi is a city and municipality of Finland. It is the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland's northernmost province, Lapland. It is situated close to the Arctic Circle and is between the hills of Ounasvaara and Korkalovaara, at the confluence of the Kemijoki River and its...

, Finland. It is currently used 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, football training and sport classes of nearby schools and daycare centres. During winter there is a skiing

Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...

 track for young skiers. The stadium has seating capacity of 2 500, of which 1 300 are covered, in two stands. Total capacity is up to over 5 000. For running

Sprint (race)

Sprints are short running events in athletics and track and field. Races over short distances are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of the stadium to the other...

 there is three tracks

All-weather running track

An all weather running track is the common term to describe a rubberized artificial running surface for the sport of Track and field athletics. Throughout the history of the sport, there has always been a search for a consistent surface that gave competitors an equal advantage, to test their...

, with fourth track in front of main stand. Lanes are green in color.

The stadium has a new floodlighting

Floodlights (sport)

Floodlights are broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial lights often used to illuminate outdoor playing fields while an outdoor sports event is being held during low-light conditions....

 with capacity of 1000 lux installed in 2008. During summer 2009 the grass pitch was replaced with third generation artificial turf

Artificial turf

Artificial turf is a surface manufactured from synthetic fibers made to look like natural grass. It is most often used in arenas for sports that were originally or are normally played on grass. However, it is now being used on residential lawns and commercial applications as well...

 with under-soil heating

Under-soil heating

Under-soil heating is a method used in various sports stadia which heats the underside of the pitch to avoid any bad weather, such as snow and ice, from building up and ultimately helps the club avoid having to postpone any matches.The first ground in England to have under-soil heating installed...

. Cost of stadium renovation so far is 1,5 million euros. Construction of the new main stand with capacity of 3 000 covered, individual seats is proposed to years 2012-13. The new stand will have the new dressing rooms and other facilities incorporated within the structure. During the grass pitch dig-up in June 2009, a German World War II -era 105-millimeter artillery shell

Shell (projectile)

A shell is a payload-carrying projectile, which, as opposed to shot, contains an explosive or other filling, though modern usage sometimes includes large solid projectiles properly termed shot . Solid shot may contain a pyrotechnic compound if a tracer or spotting charge is used...

 was uncovered from ground. The shell was promptly removed by Lapland Air Defence Regiment

Lapland Air Defence Regiment

Lapland Air Defence Regiment is a unit of the Finnish Army located in Rovaniemi. It was founded in 1989 and some 600 conscripts are trained there every year.- Organisation :...

 and subsequently safely detonated.

Record attendance of 8 543 was made during the European Cup Winners Cup

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but...

 match between Rovaniemen Palloseura

RoPS

Rovaniemen Palloseura is a Finnish football club, founded in 1950 and based in the town of Rovaniemi. In 2009 RoPS played in the Finnish Premier Division but got relegated to Ykkönen after being the lowest-placed team in the end of the season...

 and Albanian KS Vllaznia Shkodër

KS Vllaznia Shkodër

Klub Futboll Vllaznia Shkodër is an Albanian football club based in Shkodër. KF Vllaznia have been Albanian champions nine times and won the National Cup six times, the last success coming at the end of the 2007–08 season, after a long 21 year drought in the competition...

 on November 4, 1987. In domestic league the record attendance is 5 471, during match between RoPS and HJK

HJK Helsinki

Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi , internationally known as HJK Helsinki, is a Finnish football club, based in the capital Helsinki...

in 1981.