Telia Parken

The national stadium and the home turf of FCK is a fairly modern stadium with office towers in each corner. These may make sense from an business standpoint but has the unfortunate side effect that the stadium feeling and intimacy is completely ruined (not to mention the terrible sound when the venue is used for concerts). Apparently nobody has gotten the idea to sell off the last tickets at a discounted price to get the stadium filled up. This is my recommendation #1. Instead you are having some 25,000−30,000 empty seats every 2^nd Sunday. This should then mean that it would be easier to get the lukewarm and overpriced fast-​food and watered down beer… But that is not the case. At #Levy Restaurants they hire too many confused and good-​for-​nothing teenagers that end up doing half a job with no visible sense of direction/​instruction and procedures to follow. Hence you stand in line in one queue to order your «menus» and then stand in another line to pick up your food… Often in split deliveries! No functional TV screens broadcast the precious minutes of the game you are missing while you are waiting and watching incompetence in motion. Furthermore, in the same hallway you have queues and vision to the toilets including the disgusting smell of the flooded urinals (yikes!). Whatever engineer or architect that is responsible for this mess is probably long dead and buried. My recommendation #2 is to lease this out to someone capable of handling logistics, hire well educated staff and introduce some intelligent order (and «sold out») electronic displays and a functioning online ordering alternative (the current one does NOT work, have tried it #Fail). The two stars are awarded for a decent pitch (thanks to the green keepers), free parking on most parts of Østerbro on Sundays and to the FCK team, staff and fans for enduring this horrible mess.

Great atmosphere for a football game. Concessions were slim, but better than most European stadiums. Instead of wait in the long lines inside, buy a couple cans of beer at the liquor store down the street and hang out outside the stadium before the game with the locals. Minus one star for the store, which was packed and felt like a sauna.

Parken is the homeground for F.C. København and the Danish national team. It is a proper footballground without a track and field. You have a nearly perfect view wherever you are seated.
Parken is also used for concerts.

On a mildly drizzly day, I did not see Parken as a sporting venue. It was instead the backdrop of Restaurant Geranium. From the 8^th floor, if you ask nicely enough of the staff, you can go to one of the back areas of the restaurant and see where the staff get a tremendous view of the stadium. It’s like having your own skybox. Very cool that they can work service and see FC Copenhagen play simultaneously!