Rakvere Football Hall will be officially opened on Sunday. The opening match will be played between Rakvere Tarvas’s first team (4th tier of Estonian football) and Tarvas Legends. The programme will also include speeches of thanks, with music provided by the Rakvere City Orchestra.
The indoor football hall is a permanent structure featuring a 64×100-metre playing field and an adjoining service building. The construction cost amounted to €5.3 million, excluding VAT. The Estonian state contributed €2.2 million toward the project, with the remaining funding covered by the City of Rakvere from its own budget.
The hall’s construction followed a lengthy and closely contested political process. In August 2024, Rakvere City Council approved the decision to take out a loan for the project, with 12 councillors voting in favour, eight against, and one abstention. Revin Grupp OÜ won the construction tender with the lowest bid, while architects Joel Kopli and Koit Ojaliiv of Kuu OÜ designed the building. At the time, city leaders stressed that rejecting the project would have required returning the state subsidy, part of which had already been spent on preparatory work.
Rakvere’s hall forms part of a broader national programme supporting indoor football infrastructure. Similar facilities have already been built in Tallinn, Tartu, Viljandi, Haapsalu, Rapla, Pärnu, Narva, Paide, Kuressaare, and Viimsi, with the Rakvere project also benefiting from additional state funding reallocated from a cancelled hall planned in Jõhvi.
Source: https://soccernet.ee/artikkel/puhapaeval-avatakse-rakvere-jalgpallihall
