Stadium-foundation

The Olympic stadium is administered and managed by the Stadium-foundation. The Stadium-foundation was founded in December 1927. The foundation was founded by the essential sport organisations, the city of Helsinki and at a later stage the government of Finland. The most important objective of the parties was to have such a stadium built into Helsinki, that the city could apply for the summer olympics. The thought of Finnish olympics had already started at the Stockholm 1912 Olympics.

A key person in the stadium-foundation was the foundations first chairman Erik von Frenckell, the most distinguished sportsdirector in the history of Finland, who acted as the chairman of the foundation through the years 1927 to 1977. After him the foundations executive committee was lead by Victor Procopé (1978-1988). Ulla Gyllenberg was the chairman during 1989-1992 and the current chairman Erkki Aurejärvi started 1993.

The main purpose of the stadium-foundation is the development of the stadium building and events in all forms. The City of Helsinki, Ministry of Education and the essential sport organisations are still represented in the administration of the foundation.

Stadion-säätiö
Olympiastadion
00250 Helsinki

phone: 09 - 4366 010, fax 09 - 494 511
email: stadionsaatio@stadion.fi

Maija Innanen, Managing Director 436 60112 / 040-530 5522
Pekka Hurme, Marketing manager 4366 0113 / 050-368 4747
Terhi Kaila-Helminen, Accountant 4366 0118 / 050-336 1144
Pirkko Rantanen, Office manager 4366 0111 / 050-531 5500

 

Stadium-foundation executive committee 2007-2009 
 
 
Aurejärvi Erkki, chairman
Ruhala Heidi
Piimies Kari
Hämäläinen-Bister Riitta
Puoskari Mari
Haukilahti Timo
Pihlakoski Antti
Paukkonen Esko
Hämäläinen Pekka
Bryggare Arto, chairman of the delegates
Maija Innanen, managing director