Nordlaks backs new football stadium

The money will be used to help fund a fully covered planned new super-stadium for the area.

Aquaculture investment in professional football is relatively rare, although Bakkafrost does support the Faroese national side, but Nordlaks has a strong affiliation with the club and its success.

It is also a generous gift from a company which has suffered heavily financially from algae and ISA (infectious salmon anaemia) attacks this year.

The Bodø-Glimt team, which uses the stadium as its home ground, is currently sitting on top of Norway’s main league table and if it wins the title for the fifth time in six years it will again find itself in European competition next year.

The main league season is drawing to a close in preparation for the onset of the Arctic winter which is a regular feature of the region.

Nordlaks CEO Eirik Welde said: “Bodø/Glimt is proof that it is possible to achieve great things in the world by working systematically over time to build a good team. They are one of our foremost symbols that it is possible to achieve great things from Northern Norway.”

He said that for the club the contribution means more than just financial support. It is a recognition of its role in uniting, inspiring and lifting Northern Norway. In the same way that Nordlaks does within aquaculture.

Nordlaks has also been an active part of Glimt’s actionnow14 network for many years, where together with other partners, it has contributed to sustainable projects that create ripple effects beyond football.

Frode Thomassen, CEO of Bodø-Glimt said: “We are proud to have Nordlaks on the team. They show every day what it means to build long-term, take social responsibility and create jobs in the north.”

“Their contribution to the new arena, was a strong confirmation of the power that happens when business and football come together to develop the region”, he added.