Color Line Stadion

Color Line Stadion is an affiliation football stadium in Alesund, Norway, and the home of Norwegian Premier League side Aalesunds FK. It was initiated in April 2005 and cost NOK 160 million to manufacture. It is alluded to as Aalesund Stadion by UEFA. It was the principal top-level stadium in Norway to include counterfeit turf, which was at the time an exceptionally discussed issue. At the point when Aalesund opened the stadium, agent Olav Nils Sunde gave a statue to the club, which was raised before the stadium. While Sunde denied it, the statue looked to some extent like previous Aalesund player John Arne Riise.

In 2007, when Riise played in the Champions League Final, a Norwegian observer requested the statue authoritatively convey his name. Riise himself has stated, isn't for me to choose. Everybody sees its identity, and I realize that it was made for me." Since 2009 it has likewise facilitated the home amusements of the Norwegian Women's Premier League side Fortuna Alesund. The scene has facilitated one Norway national under-21 football group coordinate, playing 1– 3 against Cyprus on 3 September 2010. In a 2012 review did by the Norwegian Players' Association among away-group commanders, Color Line Stadion was positioned eleventh among class stadiums, with a score of 2.87 on a scale from one to five.