Sports Facilities

The City of Tampere has a number of sports facilities and recreation areas including the Kauppi Sports Area (Kaupin urheilupuisto). It offers a large park and forest area with soccer fields, archery and rifle ranges, a bowling alley, tennis courts, jogging trails (with lighting in the evening, converted to cross country skiing tracks during the winter).

There are also slopes for downhill skiing and snow boarding in Hervanta.

Students are entitled to special discounts for the public indoor swimming pools (uimahalli). There are four indoor swimming pools in Tampere: Joukahaisenkatu 7 (in Kaleva), Kortelahdenkatu 26 (in Pyynikki, closed temporarily due to renovation), Torisevanraitti 7 (in Hervanta), and Tuomarinkatu 7 (in Tesoma). Students can also use the Tampere travel card for paying the swimming pool entrance fee. (Read more about travel card on page Getting around in Tampere: City buses)

For more information on:

• Sports Activities in the City of Tampere
• University Sports at the University of Tampere