Fosshaugane Campus

Our home ground - much more than just a football stadium!

Fosshaugane Campus was officially opened on 7 July 2006, but many decades before that, sporting events had already been held at the same venue. Today Fosshaugane is home to football, other types of sport, education and business. Throughout the post-war period sports in Sogndal had grown and developed at Fosshaugane. With the construction of Sogndal Gymnasium (High School) in 1963, a large-scale school development also started at “Haugadn”.

The establishment of the college and various teacher training programmes around 1970 were also the start of a football upswing in Sogndal. The teacher training programme and the football section started early with a collaboration that inspired the establishment of several sports facilities and property development at Fosshaugane. Kvåle Stadium was built in the 1980s and Sognahallen was completed in 1998.

In 2001 work for a new, modern Fosshaugane Campus began. Sogndal Fotball started the first stage of construction in 2004. Sogndal’s secondary school was completed in the summer of 2011, while Stasbygg's university building followed the year after.

But that was not all. Sogndal Vidaregåande Skule moved with some of its departments from “Gymnasbygget” to a new building co-located with the facility that was completed in 2011, while the university college took over the old building. At the same time, Sogndal Football built an innovation centre. During the same period, Sogndal Municipality developed as well its primary school on the Campus and in 2016 new student accommodations under the auspices of the Student Welfare Organisation were completed too.

Since the turn of the millennium sports facilities and property projects totalling almost NOK 1.8 billion have been completed. One part of the initiative was also to bring in private knowledge companies and following the establishment of Fosshaugane Campus in recent years, there are now almost 40 private companies at Fosshaugane.

The aim is to create the best-integrated knowledge environment in the country. A place where young people and adults want to interact and learn from each other. For that reason, entrepreneurship will always be a core value. The “Sogndal model” is all about cooperation and joint efforts in order to create development for the individual as well as for the community. Fosshaugane Campus lives up to the municipality's slogan of “Bli med på laget” (Be part of the team) and the club ones’: “Stao no pao” (Stand up now).