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Banan (English: "the track" or "the lane") was the informal name of the first sports ground in Landskrona, Scania, and the third ever constructed in Sweden. It was inaugurated in 1893, then as a very simple kind of a velodrome with a grass field in its middle.〔 (Augusti )〕 It was built by the local cycling club, ''Landskrona Velocipedklubb'', and was given the formal name "Velocipedbanan", but people simply called it "Banan". In its first years, it was mainly used for cycling races with totalizators. The use of totalizators became prohibited by Swedish law in 1896, coinciding with the first modern Olympics, which promoted amateurism in sports. This left ''Landskrona Velocipedklubb'' in financial crisis, and the sports field was eventually submitted to the council of Landskrona Town.〔 However, cycling was not the only popular sport, and by 1882 ''GF Idrott'' had established itself as one of the first sports clubs in Landskrona,〔Åke Jönsson, "100 år av idrott" 1982, prologue〕 made up of twenty men, of which many came from an artillery regiment located in the town.〔 (GF Idrott )〕 ''GF Idrott'' began with gymnastics but soon other sports were included in their program, such as athletics, football and swimming,〔 and for their outdoor activities they used Banan. However despite early success within football, it would not be ''GF Idrott'' that would become the main local football club. Landskrona BoIS, the 1915 merger of ''Diana'' and ''IFK Landskrona'', soon became the best football club in the town. The club used the middle of the cycling track as pitch for their home matches, and Banan became the first home of Landskrona BoIS.〔 In 1924, a new sports ground, Landskrona IP, was inaugurated. It completely replaced Banan within a few years, and Landskrona BoIS became, in the same year, one of the twelve clubs that participated in the first Allsvenskan, the finest assembly within Swedish football. Banan was located only a kilometre from the town's centre, but the new arena was built outside the city limits of its time. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Banan (sports ground)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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