Råsunda Stadium & Strawberry Arena

Sweden's football association first considered ground beside the Ericsson Globe in Johanneshov, in the south of Stockholm, for a new national stadium. On 1 April 2006 it decided instead to build the men's national arena away from Råsunda, on a site in Solna just north of the city centre and beside the lake Råstasjön. The land there had been industrial, and the construction firms proposed developing it for a football arena. The cost was first put at about 1.9 billion kronor; before building began the estimate stood at 2.3 billion, and the figure later rose to an estimated 2.8 billion. A construction cost of 2.4 billion, excluding the surrounding infrastructure, was to be met by the association with Solna stad, PEAB, Fabege and Jernhusen. The total project was calculated at more than 4 billion.

Arenabolaget AB built the arena, to a design by the Danish practice C.F. Møller Architects with Berg Arkitektkontor and Arkitekterna Krook & Tjäder, and the first sod was turned on 7 December 2009. Råsunda, opened in 1937 and host of the 1958 World Cup final, was demolished once its replacement stood finished, and a detailed plan for some 700 flats on the site took legal force on 27 March 2012. In connection with the building work, Solna district court convicted Sune Reinhold, formerly the city's director, of bribery in May 2012 and gave him a conditional sentence and day fines.

In 2007 the football association agreed a naming sponsorship with Swedbank, under which the bank and the savings bank foundations paid 153 million kronor for the ground to be called Swedbank Arena until 2023; it was the largest naming-rights deal struck in Sweden to that point. On 28 March 2012 the name changed to Friends Arena, Swedbank having given the rights away to Stiftelsen Friends, an organisation working against bullying in schools and in sport that the bank had long supported.

On 13 January 2024 a fresh naming agreement was reached with the Norwegian hotel company Strawberry. Petter Stordalen acquired the rights that month for around 100 million kronor, and on 12 July 2024 the ground became Strawberry Arena. It is still called Nationalarenan in some contexts, the name following from its use as the men's national ground.

Crown Princess Victoria declared the arena inaugurated at the opening ceremony on 27 October 2012 and spoke to the crowd. Colin Nutley directed the show, a production in twenty-two acts entitled Svenska ögonblick, or Swedish Moments. Roxette and Sven-Ingvars each performed a few songs, and Agnes Carlsson, The Hives, Icona Pop, Loreen and First Aid Kit played before a crowd of 46,000. Edward af Sillén commentated for SVT, whose broadcast on SVT1 was watched live by 1,700,000 viewers.

Swedish House Mafia followed in November 2012 with three sold-out concerts on their One Last Tour, which brought roughly 115,000 people through the arena.

The first football match came on 14 November 2012, when Sweden beat England 4–2 in front of 49,967 spectators, a figure that remained the ground's record for a sporting event until 2017. Zlatan Ibrahimović scored the first goal at the new national stadium and all four of Sweden's; the fourth, an overhead kick from about 25 metres, was named the finest goal of the year by FIFA. Sweden's first competitive fixture at the arena was a World Cup qualifier against Ireland on 22 March 2013, which finished goalless.

AIK, which had shared Råsunda with the national side, moved in for the 2013 Allsvenskan season, opening with a friendly against HJK Helsinki on 24 March 2013 that the club won 2–1. On 7 April 2013 AIK played its first competitive match there, a goalless league game against Syrianska FC watched by 43,463, a home record for the club. Jiloan Hamad of Malmö FF scored the first Allsvenskan goal at the arena on 17 April 2013, in a 1–0 win over AIK.

On 28 July 2013 the arena staged the final of the UEFA Women's Euro, in which Germany beat Norway 1–0 before 41,301 people, an attendance record for a fixture in that competition. Solna was by then the first city in Europe to have hosted all four of the big football championships. Sweden set a ground record of 50,022 on 7 October 2017, beating Luxembourg 8–0 in a World Cup qualifier, and AIK's own record of 50,128 followed on 4 November 2018 in a goalless draw with GIF Sundsvall; standing spectators are admitted for club league matches.

The retractable roof allows events through the winter. The Swedish bandy championship final was played at the arena in 2013 and 2014; in the first of them Hammarby IF beat Sandvikens AIK before 38,474 people under the closed roof, a record for the final. The Bandygalan was held at the ground in those same two years, and the Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia was run there from 2013 to 2017 on a temporary track of 275 metres. The arena was chosen as the venue for the 2017 UEFA Europa League final, and it has held the final of Melodifestivalen every year since 2013 apart from 2021, when the COVID-19 pandemic intervened; in 2022 it took the competition's fourth heat and semi-final as well.

The ground is a UEFA Category 4 stadium, holding 50,000 seated for football and up to 65,000 at concerts, and is the largest stadium in Scandinavia. The Arenastaden district grew up around it, gaining a hotel of 650 rooms in September 2013 and the Mall of Scandinavia on 12 November 2015. The football association and Jernhusen reduced their stakes in 2013, and since 2016 the arena has been owned by Fabege AB with 66.7 per cent and the Swedish Football Association with 33.3; Peab, Solna municipality and Jernhusen were part-owners earlier.