Why now

From thirty years of shortage to fifty years of return

The Stockholm region does not face challenges. It faces three crises at once: a shortage of sports facilities that has lasted three decades, a public-health bill that grows every year, and an integration challenge that plays out in the suburbs. Small, scattered facilities have not solved any of them. The Dome Sweden is one building designed to address all three, and every year of waiting costs more than building.

Three crises, one building

Each crisis has a cost of waiting. Each has the same answer.

The infrastructure crisis

Problem: The region has lacked sports facilities for more than thirty years. Today Stockholm has about 32,300 inhabitants per sports hall; Gothenburg has 12,700. The region grows to 2.7 million people by 2030 while the facilities stand still.
Cost of waiting: Waiting lists at clubs across the region are now closed, children are left without activities, and the few existing halls wear out from over-use. More of the same will not close the gap; the region needs a leap in both quantity and quality.
Solution: Seven racquet sports, fitness, well-being and a 15,000-seat centre court under one roof, with a public sports park around it, built once and run for fifty years to come.

The public-health crisis

Problem: Physical inactivity costs Sweden 16.5 billion kronor a year in direct healthcare costs, according to the Public Health Agency of Sweden. Diabetes, cardiovascular disease and depression keep rising.
Cost of waiting: Every year a facility is postponed, the healthcare debt grows. Treating illness is always more expensive than preventing it.
Solution: Prevention at scale: accessible training for every age, from grassroots programmes for small children to seniors, with professional coaches, family activities and rehabilitation services under the same roof.

The integration crisis

Problem: In a city that keeps growing, segregation and exclusion increase with it, especially among young people in vulnerable areas. Clubs have to turn away new members for lack of space.
Cost of waiting: Without safe meeting places, young people fall outside society, and the cost lands on social services, placements and the justice system.
Solution: A neutral meeting place where people of different backgrounds, incomes and ages meet around a shared interest, with reserved time for schools, clubs and low-income families, and a safe, coached environment that is a real alternative to the street.

The gap, in public figures

Figures from public sources, and one estimate of our own, frame everything else on this page.

32 300

inhabitants per sports hall in Stockholm, against 12,700 in Gothenburg.

Source: Riksidrottsförbundet / SCB

2.7 m

inhabitants in the Stockholm region by 2030.

Source: SCB

16.5 bn

kronor a year in direct healthcare costs from physical inactivity in Sweden.

Source: Folkhälsomyndigheten, 2024

3.3 bn

kronor a year of that cost, by our estimate, falls on the Stockholm region.

Source: The Dome Sweden’s estimate from the Folkhälsomyndigheten figure

We cite only published figures from public authorities. The project's own projections stay in the investor material and are shared in person.

One roof instead of many halls

Traditional expansion means building many small, inefficient facilities spread across the region. The Dome Sweden takes the opposite approach: concentrate many sports, health, education and events in one multifunctional building. It uses land better, it means one car trip instead of three for a family with children in different sports, and one modern building with its own energy production costs far less to run than a scattering of old halls.

One building instead of a dozen separate ones, on a fraction of the land
Shared reception, changing rooms, parking and technology across every sport
Fewer car journeys: one destination for the whole family
One modern energy system instead of many old ones
A centre court that lives every day, not only on event days

How the floor is used

Racquet sportsabout 61%
Seven sports: tennis, squash, padel, beach tennis, touchtennis, badminton, table tennis
Centre courtabout 21%
15,000 seats, converts from competition to concert in under four hours
Gym and fitnessabout 7%
Open to members and the public
Wellness, medicare and spaabout 5%
Rehabilitation and preventive health
Conference and eventsabout 4%
Education, business and culture
Restaurant, café and shopabout 3%
The social heart of the building

Not a sports venue. Social infrastructure.

Calling The Dome Sweden a sports project is too limiting. It is social infrastructure: sport, health, education, community and events in one place, with effects that reach the healthcare budget, the school day, the labour market and the safety of a neighbourhood. That is why it is a question for municipalities, investors and partners together, not for the sports movement on its own.

See the impact framework

What the region gets

The soft value comes first. It is also what produces the hard value.

Sport democratised
Time slots and capacity are reserved for schools, clubs and low-income families, so sport is a right for everyone rather than a privilege for those who can pay.
Safety
A safe, coached place for young people in vulnerable areas is one of the most powerful crime-prevention tools a city has.
Health in everyday life
An environment where physical activity becomes a natural part of the day for every age, from small children to pensioners.
A stronger Sweden
A destination for international sport and culture, and a case study for Swedish leadership in sustainable, innovative infrastructure.

Two paths

Wait

Keep paying the healthcare bill of inactivity, which grows every year
Let children keep queuing for a court
Let young people in vulnerable areas find their community elsewhere
Lose international events to other capitals

Build

Create health before disease, at scale
Give a growing region the facilities it has lacked for thirty years
Turn a cost line into infrastructure that returns value for fifty years
Give Stockholm an icon that represents Sweden internationally

The Dome Sweden is not a question of whether. It is a question of when. Build now, or pay twice later.

Read the manifesto

Sources

Riksidrottsförbundet and SCB: sports facilities and population in the Stockholm region
Folkhälsomyndigheten (2024): costs of physical inactivity
SCB: population forecast for the Stockholm region to 2030
World Health Organization: physical activity and the Sustainable Development Goals

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Questions people ask before they get in touch

Why can’t the region solve this with more small halls?

Building many small facilities needs far more land, more money per court, longer timelines and more car traffic, and it never creates the scale that attracts international events or funds coaching and education. One multifunctional building does more with less.

Is The Dome Sweden only for racquet sports?

No. Seven racquet sports are the core, but the building also houses fitness, wellness, spa, medicare and rehabilitation, education and conferences, and a centre court for sport, concerts and culture, with a public sports park outside.

What happens if nothing is built?

The region keeps growing while the facilities stand still, so the number of people per hall rises, the healthcare cost of inactivity keeps growing, and young people keep lacking safe places to meet. Waiting is the expensive option.

Where do your figures come from?

The figures on this page come from Riksidrottsförbundet, SCB and Folkhälsomyndigheten. The project’s own financial projections are shared with investors and public partners in person.

Talk to us about The Dome Sweden

You talk directly to Fabrice Mary, founder and CEO. We reply within two business days, in English or Swedish.

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Fabrice Mary, Founder & CEO: info@thedomesweden.com
Phone: +44 7810 838 367
Based in: Stockholm, Sweden

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