Aspmyra Stadion

Bodø/Glimt was established in 1916 and Grand Bodø the following year, and for decades both clubs made do with a scattering of pitches around the town, the elite teams playing mainly at Bodø Station. By 1962 plans had surfaced for a single central stadium for the town's leading sports clubs, and the interest spurred a large protest meeting, organised by the town's various sports clubs in support of the municipality building one. Two sites were weighed against each other: Plassmyra, where the Norwegian Aviation Museum was later built, and Aspmyra. Aspmyra was chosen, and the municipal council passed the plans in 1963.

Construction began in 1965. The finished ground had a grass pitch, a 400-metre running track and a grandstand of wooden benches, with steel terraces along the outer parts of the grandstand side and down the opposite touchline. South of the pitch Glimt put up an air-supported training hall of their own, which they called Glimtbobla, the Glimt Bubble. The venue opened in 1966 as a municipal multi-purpose stadium built around its running track, and the first match played on it was between the boys' teams of Glimt and Grand. The ground's attendance record was set in 1975, when 12,189 people came to a Norwegian Football Cup quarter-final against Viking. Aspmyra was used for Cup Winners' Cup matches in the late 1970s, the years in which Glimt played Napoli in 1976–77 and Union Luxembourg and Internazionale in 1978–79. From the 1977 season Bodø/Glimt played in the First Division, then the top tier of the Norwegian pyramid. The club held its place in the top flight until relegation after the 1980 season.

The venue was modestly upgraded in 1980, when an all-weather running track was laid and a training pitch with artificial turf, Aspmyra kunstgressbane, was built to the south. Aspmyra hosted the Norwegian Athletics Championships in 1980 and, the following year, the women's semi-final of the 1981 European Cup in Athletics. Football at the ground went quiet by comparison: Glimt spent much of the 1980s in poor form, several seasons of it in the Third Division, while Grand's men became the strongest side in town, playing a tier above them in the Second Division. On 5 October 1986 Aspmyra staged the final of the Junior Football Cup between Bodø/Glimt and Lillestrøm.

In 1989 Bodø/Glimt began a push to return to the top league, and the first obstacle identified was training through the Arctic winter. The club proposed relaying the artificial turf pitch at Aspmyra with under-soil heating, building a gravel pitch and raising an indoor hall with a full-size pitch inside it. The Municipal Committee for Sport and Culture preferred to put the artificial turf ahead of the gravel, and proposed NOK 3.5 million to lay under-soil heating and strip the existing turf, with new turf to follow when money could be found. Work started on 24 October 1989, timed for the winter training season. The Football Association of Norway then intervened, ruling that the club could not play its matches on a gravel pitch and that the grass at Aspmyra was in too poor a state to be permitted in the top league should Glimt go up, and the municipal council granted the money for new artificial turf on the training pitch, which came into use in 1990.

Work on Nordlandshallen, an indoor venue for winter training, began in 1990 and finished on 21 September 1991. At the end of that year Glimt won promotion to the First Division, by then the second tier, and the argument over the main pitch reopened. The football association allowed the club to play the 1992 season at Nordlandshallen on condition that Aspmyra was fit for use in 1993. The municipality had no funds for a new pitch, so the two sides agreed that the club would borrow NOK 3.5 million for the work and pay the interest until the municipality took the loan over, paying no rent on the stadium in the meantime; financing it in the ordinary way would have cost two seasons rather than one. The pitch was resown in 1992 and given under-soil heating, and Bodø/Glimt were back in the top flight, and back at Aspmyra, from the 1993 season.

In 1994 the club began planning an expansion that would let Aspmyra host UEFA matches, and set up a company, Aspmyra Eiendomsutvikling, to finance the work and own the new stands. The details published in 1996 had the municipality handing the company the Aspmyra site, valued at NOK 15 million; seated stands for 10,000 spectators, a quarter of the town's population; 48 apartments; and 15,000 square metres of commercial property, whose sale, together with grants from the football association and the Ministry of Culture, would pay for the scheme. New floodlights and a clubhouse were included. The municipal chief of administration, Svein Blix, warned that the project would also have to cover the running of the new venue and the building of a new athletics ground, since the plans took away the running tracks. The municipality granted permission in December 1997 but required the club to fund the upgrades, which it could not do, and in November 1998 Kjell Ove Johansen, chief executive of Bodø/Glimt's operating company, resigned in protest at what he saw as the mayor's and the councillors' hostility and lack of trust towards the club. On 27 January 1999 the municipal council resolved to sell the stadium to the club for NOK 7.9 million, with handover on 1 May and a further NOK 5.5 million payable to the municipality once the venue turned a profit.

Construction started in October 1999 and cost NOK 140 million. A new south stand went up with a roof, offices and changing rooms, and a smaller uncovered stand to the east; nothing was built at the west end, which is part of why the work came in some NOK 40 million below the original estimate. The two new stands won the ground UEFA approval, though the old grandstand and the terraces could not be used for European fixtures. The first match at the rebuilt ground was played on 22 April 2001. The scheme also produced 6,900 square metres of commercial floorspace, let to thirteen companies and held by a company owned by local investors. The floodlights were bought second-hand from Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo for NOK 5 million, and drew early complaints from Bodø Airport that they distracted pilots; once they were in, attendance at floodlit evening matches rose by 70 per cent, and the club moved more of its spring and autumn fixtures into the evening. The pitch itself stayed troublesome: in both 1993 and 1997 the last match of the season had to be moved to Nordlandshallen because the turf was in no state to take it.

Removing the running track carried obligations. The stadium company had to pay for a new municipal athletics venue at Mørkvedlia, and the sale contract also required it to give the training pitch changing facilities of the same standard as those at the main ground; the municipality criticised the company in 2002 for leaving that undone, and the NOK 170,000 needed to move Grand's clubhouse and build the changing room was met jointly by the municipality, Grand, the stadium company and one of Glimt's sponsors. The rebuilt ground drew its largest crowd since the rebuilding on 22 May 2002, when 8,126 people watched Norway draw 1–1 with Iceland in the only match the Norway national team has played there. Money remained tight: on 2 December 2002 Nordlandsbanken bought a third of the shares in Aspmyra Eiendomsutvikling from the club for NOK 10 million to keep it out of bankruptcy.

The stadium company converted its debt, then NOK 20.5 million, into Swiss francs in 2003, and within a year the debt had grown by a tenth; that year the club spent NOK 650,000 on rent for the venue and another NOK 700,000 on operating costs. The company took the name Aspmyra Stadion AS in 2004, and in November 2005 the municipality wrote off the NOK 5.5 million owed to it, which put the club's operating company back into positive share capital and let it keep its licence; Glimt were relegated from the top division at the end of that season. In May 2006 the grass was replaced with an artificial pitch at a cost of NOK 3.1 million, and the training pitch was resurfaced in 2007. Grand Bodø went on using the ground, its women's team last playing in the Women's Premier League in 2007 for an average crowd of 222; the Norwegian women's under-23 side met Sweden at Aspmyra in August 2007, and Bryan Adams played there in 2008.

Promotion in 2008 brought the ground's condition back into dispute. The club called Aspmyra "out of date" and put the cost of staying competitive in the top tier at NOK 200 million, its chair Benn Eidissen observing that a venue among the most modern in the country in 2001 would soon fall out of the national top 25. NOK 10 million of urgent work was done before the 2008 season using regionally differentiated payroll tax funds, in the form of a NOK 2.2 million subsidy and a ten-year, interest-free and instalment-free loan of NOK 8.3 million, both made to the club. That summer the municipality and the club floated a wholly new stadium at Rønvikjordene as part of a joint Norwegian and Swedish bid for Euro 2016, with Aspmyra kept as a training pitch, but Bodø was dropped from a bid that was never submitted to UEFA. In 2009 the bank cancelled NOK 5 million of the stadium debt, bringing it down to NOK 14.2 million, and Innovation Norway told Nordland County Municipality, which administered the payroll tax funds, that both the grant and the loan to Glimt had been illegal.

The two were converted into an interest-bearing loan issued to Aspmyra Stadion AS rather than to the club. Because the club was the stadium company's majority shareholder and filed consolidated accounts, that shift threatened to leave it with negative equity, losing the licence it needed for the top two tiers and dropping it to the third, so Glimt offered to sell the ground back to the municipality. The council voted to buy on 17 February 2011, the Labour and Conservative parties in favour and the Progress Party, the Liberal Party and the Red Party against, the one side arguing that the municipality was paying far more than it had sold the ground for, the other that rescuing a professional sports club was no part of municipal business. The price was NOK 16 million, met by taking over the debt, and the stadium company was merged with Bodø Spektrum, which runs the indoor complex that includes Nordlandshallen. In September 2012 the ground held the final of the Norwegian rugby league championship, Oslo Capitals beating Bodø Barbarians 34–24.

Little was done to the ground for a decade after the buy-back. Then Bodø/Glimt won the league in 2020 and reached the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Champions League for the first time, and a new stand of 660 seats went up at the west end, followed in the spring of 2022 by another raised over the old standing area in front of the north grandstand, where room for about 2,000 spectators had fallen short of UEFA safety requirements for international matches. That added roughly 1,900 seats for a total of 8,270 in time for the 2022 season and, with better spectator, VIP and media facilities, was meant to bring Aspmyra into UEFA category 4 for European group matches; the club had been given a dispensation from the capacity rules for its 2021–22 European campaign, partly because COVID restrictions were limiting crowds in any case, and that dispensation was not to be extended for 2022–23. The artificial surface, in place since the 2006 season, was replaced in 2014 and again in 2022. Ownership is given two ways: the municipality bought the ground in 2011, while Bodø/Glimt is also entered as its owner and operator. The club is the main tenant, and Grand Bodø plays there as well.

Successive redevelopment schemes came to nothing for want of funding, and because results and crowds did not force the issue. With the site hemmed in and its ownership divided, the club turned to building elsewhere: a stadium for 8,000 to 10,000 across town was planned for completion in the autumn of 2024, when Bodø held the title of European Capital of Culture, the design calling for closed corners and roofs over every stand as shelter from the weather, and grouping the ground with an ice rink and an indoor athletics hall; siting it on farmland at the edge of the centre provoked argument about building over arable soil. On 11 September 2025 the club revealed plans for a 10,000-seat stadium at Thalleveiåkeren, just outside central Bodø.