The Pain of Moving to a Modern Ground | Hammarby's Goodbye to the Söderstadion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2021
- Being a supporter of Hammarby football is hard, even for the most dedicated fan. Not only does the team often struggle below the top division of Swedish football, but the ideals that the club was based on have begun to erode in recent years.
The unwilling step into the future is embodied by the leaving of the classic home stadium Söderstadion, to share a new ground with the bitter rivals - Djurgården. In “Vi är bäst ändå” (“This is Söderstadion”) we get to meet Kajsa and Magnus, both whom live and breath Hammarby, and see how they in their own different ways of supporting have their worlds turned upside down. How will their love for Hammarby survive the 2013 season?
A film about breakup, fellowship and uncertainty for the future.
Director: Andreas Bjunér
Cast: Kajsa Birgersson, Magnus Hagström
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English
Runtime, short version: 30 min
Runtime, long version: 82 min
Link to the long version: • This is Söderstadion (...
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Excellent documentary, as a Boca Juniors fan it gives me chills the very idea of moving from our mythical and beloved La Bombonera Stadium. It has been our home for more than eighty years and the best memories of my life are in that stage; from when I went to "la popular" with my grandfather when I was only four years old, to going for the first time with my son. That is why I felt very identified with these fans and their eternal love for their home ground.
Easily the best stadium in world football! If my team Leeds United ever left our stadium I’d simply give up with football
Si pero la bombonera es un estadiazo no como el estadio que nosotros teniamos.
Then finish the stadium
Watching this as an Everton fan and I can relate. Moving to our new stadium means we lose the heart of our club , Goodison Park.
If my club ever left ibrox i don’t think i could even support them anymore. It would just be unrecognisable to me. I don’t know how everton fans could even cope with such a decision.
I thought anfield was your old stadium :P
@@Jamie-kv9eg same as a Leeds fan, I can’t imagine home games being anywhere other than Elland Road, the whole ritual of the game day is ingrained in that ground and the surrounding streets, pubs and shops
@@Jamie-kv9eg well considering your club was disbanded and reformed a few years back but you still manage to support them tells me you would be ok 😆
I'm a Sydney FC fan and our stadium was knocked over in 2018 to build a new one, it is meant to be finished by 2022. Playing in other grounds in the interim sucks and makes me feel so much less connected to the club.
Just to give a little update for those who are interested!
We've been in the new stadium for the last 8 years now ( jesus time flies! ) and i sincerely think the move to the new 32,000 sits modern arena was the greatest move our club ever did! Financially it's been a great success that gave us the opportunity to be back on top of the league. We've finally got the chance to prove all Scandinavia we have the best nordic fans with record breaking season attendances, season tickets sales and record game attendances every single year since the move to the new arena. The new stadium boosted us as fans like never before! We went from averaging 7.000 in second div to more than 25,000 every seasons since. The move gave us and the players the confidence that we needed to get up and now we are up there fighting for the title with Malmö, AIK and Djurgården. The new stadium gave us the ability to show we are not the never ending unlucky charming working class club anymore but we are the mighty working class club proudly standing and showing year after year why we belong amongst the best in the north!
I hate the fact that we share our stadium with djurgården it feels very wrong especially because it's in our part of the city they don't belong there it feels off but to be honest it's also been a great success because of this move the rivalry went into new depth, it has never been so electrical. We hate each other more then ever and every derby feels like we are going to war and i love it! The doc was great thank you so much COPA90 for uploading it! I was there, 17-18 yo for the last game at Söderstadion i remember i cried and i took home a sign that said "don't damage the field" and made it sign by the whole squad! Thank you for making me remember how it was and where i used to stand. I'm forever grateful for the passion and love that club procures to me and i'm not even a swede... I haven't looked back since then probably because i attach the old stadium with our shitty horrifying years in the second div, i moved to Sweden and started buying season tickets the year we got down to the second div... and i really don't want to remember all that!
SÖDERFAMILY, DJURGÅRDEN OCH HAMMARBY!🤣🤣
@@Sviareik Smygbajare
Damn crime against humanity to make these beautiful people share a stadium with their rivals when they love their home so much
There really wasn't much of a choice. There was no way the city was going to build a third new stadium, and there was no way the were letting DIF rebuild the old and culturally protected Olympic Stadium. So a ground share was the only option.
And it turned out OK after all.
@@ParumPirum The better option would have been renovating Råsunda and giving Hammarby and Djurgården their own stadiums.
@@ludde438 Yes, but sadly that was never a realistic option.
@@ParumPirum there was actually a plan to renovate råsunda, so the only unrealistic would be Dif getting their own stadium.
@@ludde438 Yes… so in other words the only realistic scenario is the one that actually happened because very few wanted to share a stadium with aik.
Feel fortunate my team (Nottingham Forest) are renovating our traditional stadium and not relocating. The day we end up sat down in a plastic bowl is the day I stop going to football... #AMF
Agree totally, Build a stadium and they will come isn’t a solution, the solution is to listen to any fan of any club to what we would like and not to treat us as a consumer but more of a 13th person in order to build
As a Pompey fan Im not keen to move from fratton park. Really is the heart of the city. Glad forest are staying where you are too as it's very unique.
Couldn’t have put it any better 👏
My club is thinking of a new stadium , Feyenoord ''
De kuip is a beautiful stadium
@@FC_Twente_8469 De Kuip is much changed from the 80's but still has old school charm. Anyone can see why Ajax had to leave De Meer in 90's but De Kuip is an iconic stadium & I hope it remains. Always enjoyed visiting
From a Panathinaikos fan...I understand you Swedish brothers. Plus you have t share your stadium with the Djurgardens guys.
Leoforos Alexandras stadium is being demolished in a few years, in order for us to build a modern stadium near the city's historical centre. The Votanikos Arena, which had been a dream for us for over 15 years. However the demolition is sad for us because when it comes to the Leoforos:
1. It has ALWAYS been our home in our hearts, wherever we played.
2. It is the oldest stadium in Greece, having been built in 1922.
3. We all became fans there.
4. It holds many memories like beating Barcelona, Arsenal, Schalke, PSV, Porto, Crvena Zvezda, etc.
5. Because nothing feels like a small, packed Greek stadium.
6. The old stadium, smelling the hashis that may bring you headache sometimes, standing for 90 minutes singing and shouting and celebrating, pushing your team one more round, queuing outside of the stadium because the small metal door doesn't open. It doesn't compare to a modern arena. It feels...soulless a bit.
This is progress I guess, and we have to let things go..but it will be a sad day when it is demolished.
These are exactly the same feelings we had when our old stadium Allmend in Luzern, Switzerland was torn down. It actually looked very similar to Söderstadion and the last game ever was a relegation game where we won 5-0 to just stay in the league after a 0-1 defeat in the first leg.. This day was one of the happiest and sadest days in my life. Good memories of an old home. The new stadium just doesn't feel the same. It's ok, a new home. But there's not the same old love as I used to feel for the old ground..
Thank you for that movie! I am a Palmeiras fan, from Brazil. Our old stadium was destroyed and replaced by a modern arena. It was never the same going there. I miss our old stadium, Parque Antártica. Respect!
Boca Juniors fan here, went with my dad to Parque Antártica back in the 2001 Libertadores Semi Final. Awesome Stadium, great atmosfere.
Palmeiras new stadion is modern like all new football arena around the world.But this stadion when was build, architects build more like music festival stadion than proper football.Its not bad stadion,but it's little strange ...
manchaverde 💪blood in blood out
Love and Respect from ☘️Panathinaikos☘️ Greece!!! Green & White for ever!!! 🟢⚪️🟢⚪️🟢
Many people can't understand the feelings of this video but the true supporters can relate!!!
Brothers Rapid Pao Bajen !
Celtic🍀
@@NotThatJojjo bro youre not part of this
Green and white, gate 13
Real supporters old school
yeah
Reminds me of when we left Roker Park Sunderland in 1997 to go to the Stadium of Light it’s good but it’s not the same there’s always something missing 🥲🥲
Roker park was always a great away day a proper football ground with a proper atmosphere , the stadium of light is good but like you say just not the same
I'm not crying, you are
beatutfiul film, from a 'Boro(Middlesbtough) fan who lost our beloved Aryesome Park! I feel your pain but football always wins!!🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻Stay strong our Swedish friends #UTB (up the Boro) #UTH t(UP THE HAMMARSBY) Thankyou
*MIDDLESBROUGH, AYRESOME PARK, sorry had a couple of beers😂😂😂
Great mini doc, and great fans from Hammarby.
Respect from a Brøndby fan!
Love from FC Botev Plovdiv, Bulgaria. We played our last match on our old ground in 2014. Since then we are building our new stadium (it was delayed because finance problems). Its gonna be ready in november 2021.
Greetings from Thessaloniki, Emil. Looking forward to your new stadium. ARIS-BOTEV
All of the Stockholm teams went through similar things at around the same time. They all left their old grounds. AIK left Råsunda in 2012, and Hammarby left Söderstadion at the same time as Djurgården left Stockholms stadion in 2013.
Man this hit me right in the feels. First of all, to see these pictures during the pandemic really makes me miss going to the games. But more than that, seeing the passion that these fans have for their stadium and being robbed of their place, a part of their and the club's identity... That's tough. Leaving this beautiful old stadium to have to share a soulless thing with your rivals...
Absolutely superb, was there for the second last game at the old Soderstadion , Forza Bajen Forever !!
Nice docu. I can feel your pain. My club also has gone from holy ground to a modern stadium. greets From Alkmaar (The Netherlands).
I'm a Shamrock Rovers fan, and I was lucky enough to visit the Soderstadion a few times over the years. The first time was an incredible night in 2002 when Hammarby beat Helsingborg. So sad to think it's gone now, but Hammarby lives on, and its fans are inspirational. Forza Bajen!
And we had a great time at Tolka Park in 2002! /DIF
As a Milan fan I can relate. Tearing down the mighty San Siro will break my heart..
As a Spurs fan, can definitely resonate with this. Still miss WHL and as good as the new stadium is, nothing will match WHL
As your rival fan (arsenal) I completely understand this
Really emotional video, brought back a lot of memories. Forza Bajen💚💚💚🇳🇬
They have a great atmosphere in the new stadium. One of the best I've witnessed, everyone should visit. :)
Bravo Copa90. You always find a way to outdo yourselves with your docs. You capture the passion, joy, pain and melancholy in such a touching way. Best of luck to all Hammarby supporters from a Southern California LAFC fan. 🖤💛 + 💚🤍
I can kind of relate and sympathise having been the the BBG to see Derby as a kid. I missed the real glory days and Europes giants coming to town, but I don't think Pride Park will ever match the BBG atmosphere
Allt för Bajen!
I went to over 300+ games there...miss it dearly.
Great film....mirror image when West Ham left Upton Park to play in the scaffolding site at Stratford.
reminds me of when my local team colchester united left Layer Road - quite possibly the worst but best stadium. you could be so close to the pitch you could touch the players taking throw-ins. the team has never been the same since leaving
Great doc as always. Quality channel.
Quando uno è un ultrà è ultrà in ogni parte del mondo ed è proprio quella fede quell’amore quella passione che lo differenzia da un semplice tifoso!!! Bravo complimenti e ricordate il motto degli ultras “ la nostra fede muorirà con noi”. By
Fedaynbronx81 🛠 Caserta the Working Class!!!!!
Bajen från första andetag, tills sista hjärteslag
Hammarby working class football club
@K hahaha u pathetic fakenews jelous fuck
never been so early before... can't wait to watch after lab
There is warning here for everyone. Pompey fans not only had to bail out the club, they had to fight to own the stadium too. You can not recreate the atmosphere. Long live Fratton Park. Once visited, never forgotten; ask any away fan. Box stadiums are soul less. There are lessons to be learnt. No more Roker Roar for Sunderland fans. No more Highbury. The list goes on and on. Nothing but regrets.
Platsen i mitt hjärta.
På Söderstadion fanns hjärtat, på Söderstadion fanns vi, där ekade våra sånger, alltid för Hammarby!
Absolutely beautiful
Going to the old Dell to watch the mighty Southampton take on all comers as a youngster and into my 20s was an electrifying experience. Saints had to move to maintain our premier league status, but St. Mary's is just not the same. I think it's high time that safe standing areas are reintroduced to U.K football grounds, just as they have in the Bundesliga and elsewhere. They should make these tickets (considerably) cheaper too...!
I'm a Derby County fan, I only ever went to one game at the Baseball Ground when I was about 5. In some way I'm kind of pleased I don't remember it because it doesn't hurt the way it would a fan 10 or more years older than me. In others i'm heartbroken I never got to fully experience it.
Forced to leave your holy ground and share a place with the enemy. What a blow!
Leicester fan of 30 years and yes The king power is a great ground but it’s nothing compared to Filbert Street
Would you go back?
Absolutely I would , had some great times in that ground
@@streetdaniel2010 What if it meant Leicester were relegated to the Championship?
@@izdatsumcp I went to every game in league 1 5000 people in the KP and it’s was brilliant going to old grounds away from home and standing in a shed lol
@@streetdaniel2010 But you'd take that if it meant no Premier League football?
Sad to see these grounds go to waste.
I understand this from an arsenal point of view,when we moved to the Emirates we lost something so dear to us, we lost our soul our atmosphere, we lost the invincibles, everything about us just died down
Cant wait for a episode about AIK and Råsunda.
Another great vid kudos
HEJA HAMMARBY!!!💚🤍💚🤍
Gammalt men håller med, ännu bättre om ni tar i lite när det är match.
Lucky to have attended 3 games here. A truly special ground.
Oh, I share the same hate for short corners.
Great documentary, by the way.
As a football fan this speaks to me.
It speaks to all of us
This was emotional, many memories, joy and tears. fantastic documentary. is there a sequel about the new arena and the same people? would be interesting to hear what they think now etc.
Älskar dig Hammarby
Great video, will you do a story on FK Bodø/Glimt in the future?
Everywhere is turning into soulless corporate American sport venues devoid of atmosphere .
Oh, here’s someone who has never been to an American stadium or arena.
Although I will say I am a fan of the baseball team New York Mets, and we had a similar story with our old stadium Shea Stadium and moving to the modern Citi Field.
@@alexanderfooy723 here’s someone that’s been to far more American stadiums then you have ever been . Qwest field was supposed to be the loudest by was full of day trippers with all the gear from the merchandise store .
@@samoday2992 What sport were you going for? And clearly you haven’t given your comments on the matter lol
@@alexanderfooy723 why because I said they are soulless bowls ? I have been for baseball American football and basketball . The only decent atmosphere was the ice hockey . Give me an example of a decent atmosphere in American corporate sports ? As I said the atmosphere in Europe is dying too as they are copying the model of American sports and it’s crap . We are starting to get face paint wearing popcorn eating fans .
good luck guys
Really hope this won’t happen to Feyenoord and that we can renovate De Kuip instead 🔴⚪️
Absoluut, heel dat Rotterdam City gebeuren moet op tyfen
Always a Feyenoord flag a Sunderland games
@@mackemftm74 with Feyenoord games you can often see a Sunderland flag hanging in the stadium
Against modern football ✊🏽
Arsenal fan here, I know what it feels like
Arsenal is a company, a franchise. Hammarby is a small society of working class people from the south of Stockholm. The symbol and mascot of overlooked people who have had to work for everything in their life choosing to support the worst and most unsuccessful club in the city. We are not the same.
@@DavidAsp118 Yes I understand what you mean but before Arsenal became a *Company Franchise* our fan base was pure working class lads proud to support their club, ever since we moved from Highbury we’ve probably become one of the worst clubs in London and we play in a £500,000,000 library and have been going down hill, I would’ve loved to stay at Highbury if it meant our club went in the right direction afterwards, also I did not say we were the same, I just said I sympathise with the pain
I will forever regret the fact I've never been to Highbury. Those who decided to tear the beautiful, astonishing stadium down should be sentenced for life behind bars + hard labour.
That new "accomodation" is ugly as fuck. So are the results.
Kind regard from a Fortuna fan, former stadium "De Baandert", now seeing matches in a ugly concrete all seater at an industrial park.
@@johnniepeters2717 i thought Fortuna had a standing section?
@@brendanrodgers9753 unfortunately not.
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Hej HIF:are.
Fråga från en dansk.
Vart kommer namnet Bajen ifrån.
Vilkan betydning har det?
Det betyder ingenting egentligen.... På gammal Söder dialekt uttalades Hammarby "Hammarbaj" och det blev "Hammarbajen" och senare bara Bajen.
@@lydiardtr Vad bra. Tack för svaret.
Kul klub med mycket själ och hjärta.
Även om er nya stadion er moderna, så ser det ut till at ni kan göra en grym stemning.
Hälsninger från en Brøndby-supporter :)
this is what I love about Liverpool, we keep renovating Anfield but may we never abandon it or even worse share a stadium with Everton, its painful to see what these fans are going through
@@emileb7085 well you've gained a bajare, even if you've lost your sacred soil I'll pull for Hammarby
liverpool is at evertons original stadium get it right ,you fool ,everton getting a new stadium
Yeah you just buy houses in the local Area to let them rot so that in the end you can expand your stadium. Suppose that’s what you love about Liverpool 🥴
@@pagjs4869 good luck finding a massive club that hasn't done that
@@foxiflakes8245 suppose that makes it okay then doesn’t it 🤔
She really loves long ones
Same problem like my team AEK Athens
New stadium was about to completed to 2015 but we are 2021 and it is not ready
Fattar hela grejen med arenan ville heller aldrig lämna stadion :( Hoppas en film om stadion också kommer
Wasnt this release a couple of years back? Is this an edited version. Or am I having a Mandela effect moment.
Yes, released a few Years Ago, now recut and shortened for copa
Loved the old chelsea ground miss the old shed end
I really truly loved Highbury and all the places I stood or sat (season ticket 30 years) but hated couldn't stand our new ground (not stadia) it just wasn't football anymore. I gave it up and am trying to get into my now local team or another lower division team but can't even though it is real football my heart is Arsenal. Look up history if you think I am a glory hunter we used to be really shit but I will never admit I said that
Highbury had soul.
ill be devasted if pompey ever leave fratton park...
Or leave league 1 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fratton park is an amazing stadium!
As a Morecambe supporter I miss our old ground Christie Park standing in the North Stand.
good video
Broke my heart when Basingstoke town fc left the camrose
Hammarby celebrated this move.
Hertford fc 100 years on same ground love it just as it is run down old good friends standing in the stable end
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As a supporter of the third Stockholm team aik, hammarby and djurgården moving together is one of the funniest things in the world. I do feel kind of bad for both of them tho
You call yourself the third team? lol
And you moved to arena that you all hates, it takes 50.000ppl and you usually have around 15.000ppl coming to the games, what a dizaster.
And yet u share arena with Djurgården in hockey, in the same area as Söderstadion was. Even moved your whole Bandy section to Gubbängen south of Stockholm city to a place Hammarby worked for to be builtfor years.. same as djurgården did with tele2 Arena, ye continue to laugh against your own club. The club that went lost in seeking a place to be..
As a Tottenham fan I wish we never moved. WHL was the most special ground full of character instead of a concrete bowl
Modern stadiums built for hot dog sellers not football. Another way they've sanitised the game. I feel these guys pain
Hader ALT svensk .. men jeg føler virkelig med Hammerby når det kommer til moderne fodbold
Dom är moderna fotbollen. 25% ägd av en Amerikansk bolag, 24% Zlatan. Och så tog vraket över IK Frej. Borde heta FZ Redbull Bajen.
@@saibot1221 gniffen😢😢😢
Ironiskt då att dom har sålt ut halva sin klubb och har Zlatan som en av ägarna.
@@bobbyswe Och hur ser det ut i erat ishockeylag då? Hycklare.
@@tobias7059 hur det ser ut i erat hockeylag?...
Can you make about råsunda aswell? Aiks arena from 1937-2012
I miss Eli
Alexander Skarsgårds home club.
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I hate modern arenas
söderstadion forever
at least they could've taken a long corner
so this is Eric northman favorite club
Söder Bröder Glöder
Same with Djurgården and AIK except Stadion was never destroyed.
Most clubs that have been relegated is terrible but other clubs have adapted to after they have been relegated.
FORZA BAJEN!
It brings my piss to a boil, all these new plastic souless stadiums taking over the world. Sick of it. My local team VPS in Finland got a new fancy stadium some years back, only been once, cant stand it. Concrete jungle! My team Arsenal.....well dont need to say anything there that hasnt already been said.
Bajen forever....
24:41 wrong highest attendance is Örgryte or Göteborg back in the 50’s and in modern time its AIK.
Nu var det ju publiksnitt som avsågs och då har Hammarby rekordet i svensk fotboll. Senast aik vann publikligan var 2014, sedan dess har Hammarby vunnit varje år.
Bajern, bärs och rakade brudar!
(Bajen, beer and shaved broads)
Birds*
If Wimbledon can get back to Plough Lane then anything is possible
It's al about the money. Sadly....
sharing🤢
Against the modern football 🤍🖤