Ottmar Hitzfeld Arena

The FC Gspon was established in 1974.[1] Until 1986 the football club was active in the amateur football in Valais.[2] In 1984, with the support of FC Gspon, the Mountain Village championship was established in Switzerland.[3] According to the club legend, the pitch's location close to a cliff made it lose around a thousand footballs.[4] Timo Konietzka, who scored the first goal of the German Association Football in 1963, had some sympathy and he supplied more footballs in 1990.[4]

The stadium was the host of the European Football Championship of Mountain Villages, first held in 2008[5] which was organized in collaboration with the European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland.[3][6] The Championship in Gspon was won by Spain who beat Sweden in the final. Switzerland was third after defeating France.[7]

Since 2008 FC Gspon has a men's and a women's team who play on the arena.[1]

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