Nadderud stadion 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...

 at Nadderud

Nadderud

Nadderud is a district in eastern Bærum, Norway. It was formerly farmland under one of Bærum's larger farms, named Nadderud, but since the 1950s it has been built up with housing, several schools and sporting facilities. The best known facility, which has made the name Nadderud nationally known, is...

 near Bekkestua

Bekkestua

Bekkestua is a town in the municipality of Bærum, Norway, with a busy bus terminal and a station on one of Oslo's westbound T-bane lines, Kolsåsbanen. It also has its own library, McDonalds, police station and fire station...

, in Bærum

Bærum

is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandvika. Bærum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. A suburb of Oslo, Bærum is located on the west coast of the city....

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

.

Association football

It is currently used mostly for track and field meets and 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 the Norwegian Toppserien team Stabæk Fotball. Former tenants include and Bærum SK

Bærum SK

Bærum Sportsklubb is a Norwegian association football club founded on 26 March 1910. The men's team is currently playing in the Adeccoligaen, after being promoted from the Norwegian Second Division in 2011....

—the men's team of Stabæk moved to Telenor Arena

Telenor Arena

Telenor Arena, sometimes referred to as Fornebu Arena, is a multi-use indoor arena located at Fornebu in Bærum, outside Oslo, Norway. It serves primarily as a football stadium for Norwegian Premier League side Stabæk Fotball, but is also used as a concert venue...

 in 2009, but their B team still plays at Nadderud. Matches for the U-21 national team

Norway national under-21 football team

The Norwegian national under-21 football team, controlled by the Football Association of Norway, is the national football team of Norway for players of 21 years of age or under at the start of a UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship campaign...

 has also been played here.

The record attendance is about 10,000, from a 1970 cup match where Stabæk played Strømsgodset. Ahead of the 1996 season, a new main grandstand with seating for 2,900 people was opened, costing 15 million Norwegian krone

Norwegian krone

The krone is the currency of Norway and its dependent territories. The plural form is kroner . It is subdivided into 100 øre. The ISO 4217 code is NOK, although the common local abbreviation is kr. The name translates into English as "crown"...

 (NOK). It increased the seating at the stadium with 1,400 seats from the old grandstand. The municipality installed flood lights

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....

 ahead of the 2005 season. Stabæk moved to Telenor Arena

Telenor Arena

Telenor Arena, sometimes referred to as Fornebu Arena, is a multi-use indoor arena located at Fornebu in Bærum, outside Oslo, Norway. It serves primarily as a football stadium for Norwegian Premier League side Stabæk Fotball, but is also used as a concert venue...

 for the 2009 Premier League season, but is returning for the 2012 season.

From 2009 the stadium is the home pitch of Stabæk's women's team Stabæk Fotball Kvinner

Stabæk Fotball Kvinner

Stabæk Fotball Kvinner is Stabæk IF's women's football team, and was started in 2007. Stabæk plays in Toppserien, the top league of Norway. They won the league championship in 2010 and thus qualified to the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League to debut in Europe...

 (SFK), who play in the elite Toppserien league.

Athletics

The stadium hosted the European Cup in Athletics, First League for Men, in 2000. Domestically it has hosted the Norwegian Championships in 1966 and 1985. It annually hosts the country's largest track and field meet, Tyrvinglekene.

Bandy

The Norwegian bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

 final was held here, when Strømsgodset IF under a heavy snowfall beat Stabæk IF 3-1.