Sarpsborg Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Sarpsborg

Sarpsborg

is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sarpsborg.Sarpsborg is part of the fifth largest urban area in Norway when paired with neighbouring Fredrikstad...

, 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...

. 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 Sarpsborg 08.

The venue hosted the Norwegian Athletics Championships in 1954 and 1960. The venue hosted Norway national under-21 football 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...

 one matches, where Norway lost 1–3 against Sweden

Netherlands national under-21 football team

The Netherlands national under-21 football team is the national under-21 team of the Netherlands and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association. The team competes in the European Under-21 Championship, held every two years....

 on 3 October 1972. English Leeds United has visited the stadium twice. First they met Sarpsborg FK in the 1st round of the 1970-71 Fairs Cup . Leeds won 1-0, the goal scored by Peter Lorimer

Peter Lorimer

Peter Patrick Lorimer is a former footballer who formed part of the much-admired and feared Leeds United team of the 1960s and 1970s....

. Egil "Drillo" Olsen

Egil Olsen

Egil Roger Olsen , nicknamed Drillo, is a Norwegian association football manager and former Norwegian football player. He is best known as a highly successful coach of the Norwegian national football team. He has since been coach of the Iraqi national football team, his departure from which caused...

 was one of Sarpsborg's players at the time. The second visit took pace on July 13 2006, when they met Sparta Sarpsborg FK . The match ended 2–2, with Lorimer present , but not playing.