Kolding Stadium
Kolding Stadion, known as Autocentral Park for sponsorship purposes, is a multi-purpose stadium in Kolding, Denmark.
It consists of an old wooden stand, a 700-seater, a larger more modern east stand, with room for a sitting crowd of 1,517, plus a round southern stand. There are four athletics running lanes, and facilities for pole vaulting, high jumping, hammer throwing, shot putting and long jumping.
History
In 1898, Kolding Fodsports Klub left Staldgården, near Koldinghus because of a new arena being built there. In 1913 they took over the area Olympia in Kolding and the pitch there. The poor conditions of the playing field, though, made the city council of Kolding finance a new stadium there, which was opened in 1931.In 1972 the old building and main stand was demolished, to make room for a new one.
The American singer Whitney Houston performed a concert at the stadium on 15 August 1993, during The Bodyguard World Tour.
The ground has been used for three matches for the Denmark women's national football team, and several matches for various Danish national youth teams, latest matches for the Danish under-17 men's side and the women's under-19 team in 2007.
More recently, on 6 July 2007, the ground was used for a Bryan Adams concert.