page_title: Kamratgården
section_title: New Kamratgården
hierarchical_section_title: Kamratgården / New Kamratgården
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Kamratgården som är IFK Göteborgs klubbhus i Delsjöområdet i Göteborg. Dagens Kamratgård byggdes 2012–2013 och ersatte den gamla Kamratgården som stod på samma plats. English: Kamratgården, the club house of IFK Göteborg situated in the Delsjö area in Göteborg (Gothenburg). The current club house was built in 2012–2013 and replaced the old club house on the same site.
context_page_description: Kamratgården is the administrative home and clubhouse of Swedish football club IFK Göteborg and the main training ground of the club. The complex is located near Delsjön in eastern Gothenburg, Sweden.
  The original buildings were constructed 1959–1961, but were demolished in 2011 to give place to a new building complex. The new building was subsequently opened in 2012. The complex also houses two full-size football pitches.
context_section_description: When Håkan Mild ended his playing career in 2005 and took over as director of sports for IFK Göteborg, he also initiated a discussion regarding the standards of Kamratgården together with then club director Seppo Vaihela. All stand-alone additions and modifications over the years had not only decreased the aesthetics of Kamratgården but also increased the cost of maintaining and keeping Kamratgården in repair.
  As ideas started to realise, IFK took several offers from building contractors, settling on Sefa who also started sponsoring the club. The initial cost of SEK 35 million was decreased to around 30 million. Around 3 million of the cost was sponsored by individuals who bought a spot for their name on Kamratstenen (transl. The Comrade Stone), a stone with a four-pointed star cross section, the symbol of Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna. The names of all players reaching 200 matches for the club are also added to the star.
  The decision to build the new Kamratgården was taken on 22 October 2010, and the old buildings were demolished in February 2011, just a few months shy of 50 years in existence. Construction was started on 12 February 2011 and finished in December the same year. New Kamratgården was opened on 18 March 2012, without any time delay or additional costs accrued during the building process. Some 2,000 persons visited the opening which also featured the inauguration of Kamratstenen.
  The new two-floor 2,000 square metres (22,000 sq ft) building is divided into two areas. The administrative area has offices, meeting rooms, media room, reception, kitchen and dining room for 140 people. The sports area houses three changing rooms (one for the senior team, one for the youth team and one guest changing room), gym, bath, sauna, offices for coaching staff, a player's lounge and additional rooms.
  Due to weak finances, IFK Göteborg decided to sell Kamratgården to an external partner in late 2015. The agreement released funds needed to secure the economy, while at the same time allowing IFK to rent the facilities without increased operating costs. IFK Göteborg also secured the rights to buy back the complex at any time the club wants to do so.
  IFK Göteborg was the first elite team in Sweden to install hybrid grass, with one of the two pitches at Kamratgården changed to the new surface during the winter of 2016/2017. Starting in 2017, the under-19 and under-21 teams of the IFK Göteborg Academy play their matches on the new pitch.
caption: Overview of Kamratgården, the sports area is on the left and the administrative area on the right.
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