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Swedish football champions
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Swedish football champions is a title held by the winners of the highest Swedish football league played each year, Allsvenskan. Malmö FF are the holders of the record of most titles with 19 Swedish championships, after winning the 2016 Allsvenskan, Malmö FF are also the reigning Swedish football champions. The title has been contested since 1896 in varying forms of competition, the first Swedish Champions, Örgryte IS, were declared in 1896 when the club won the cup tournament Svenska Mästerskapet. This happened before there existed any Swedish national association, which was not created until 1904, the winners of Svenska Mästerskapet between 1896 and 1904 have retroactively been declared holders of the title by the Swedish Football Association. After the creation of the SvFF, the continued to be held by the winners of Svenska Mästerskapet until 1925, even though a Swedish first national league, Svenska Serien. Svenska Mästerskapet was discontinued in 1925, in 1924–25, a new Swedish national league was created, Allsvenskan, but the Swedish Champions title wasnt awarded to the winners of that league until 1930–31. Since then, the winners of Allsvenskan are considered Swedish Champions, the current trophy, Lennart Johanssons Pokal, has been awarded since 2001 with Hammarby IF being the first winners. Johansson himself handed out the trophy in Sundsvall on 27 October 2001, the first trophy which was in use from 1904 to 2000 was named von Rosens Pokal after the first chairman of the Swedish FA Clarence von Rosen. However in November 2000 it was discovered that von Rosen had been active in the Swedish national socialist movement during World War II which prompted the FA to give up using the old trophy. A total of 19 clubs have been crowned Swedish champions from Örgryte IS in 1896 until Malmö FF in 2016, a total of 116 Swedish championships have been awarded. Malmö FF is the most successful club with 19 Swedish championships, the 19 title-winning clubs have come from a total of 13 cities. The most successful city is Gothenburg, the Swedish championship has been won by 19 clubs from nine counties. The most successful county is Västra Götaland, den nödvändiga boken om Allsvenskan, svensk fotboll från 1896 till idag, statistik, höjdpunkter lag för lag, klassiska bilder. Swedish Football Association Sweden - List of Champions, RSSSF. com
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GAIS
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Göteborgs Atlet- och Idrottssällskap, commonly referred to as GAIS or Gais, is a Swedish football club based in Gothenburg. The club is affiliated to the Göteborgs Fotbollförbund and play their games at Gamla Ullevi. Fans also refers to the club as Grönsvart or The Mackerels because of the shirt colours. GAIS is one of the oldest football clubs in Sweden, the club was a founding member of Allsvenskan and also the first champions of the league. They have won a total of four championship titles, five league championship titles. The club thus gained the reputation of being a club, constantly going up. After their promotion in 2005 the club played seven seasons in Allsvenskan which was a feat not achieved since the degradation in 1955. After relegation in 2012 they finished seventh in Superettan in 2013 and has remained there since, GAIS was founded 11 March 1894 at Ehdlunds Café in the Gothenburg city centre. The founders had created the club for patriotic purposes and to all kinds of sports. Its main activities were athletics and an assortment of strength sports, the football section was formed in 1897 and played their first official game against local rivals Örgryte IS in 1903. GAIS first appearance in the highest league at the time, Svenska Serien, was in 1915/16 where they finished in fourth place, in 1919 the club won its first national championship beating Djurgårdens IF away in the finals. The same procedure would be repeated in 1922, this time against another Stockholm team, GAIS won the first season of the new first tier league Allsvenskan in 1924/25, two points ahead of local rivals IFK Göteborg. The feat was to be repeated in 1926/27, this time three points ahead of IFK Göteborg, unfortunately the league champions was not recognised as national champions until the 1930/31 season. GAIS won this year as well, six ahead of AIK. During the 1930s GAIS slowly lost the dominance the club had exercised over Allsvenskan since its foundation, having spent three years in the second division GAIS returned with a vengeance for the 1941–42 Allsvenskan where the club finished in second place. Later in 1942 they won Svenska Cupen for the first, and until today, the club then stayed in Allsvenskan throughout the 1940s and the early 1950s. They quite unexpectedly won their national championship one single point ahead of Helsingborgs IF in the season of 1953/54. The clinching game was the last one of the season, a nail biting no score draw at Stadsparksvallen in Jönköping, the following year, equally unexpectedly, disaster struck when the club finished third last and was relegated
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Division 1 (Swedish football)
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Division 1 is the third level in the Swedish football league system and consists of 28 Swedish football teams. Division 1 was the second tier from 1987 to 1999, but was replaced by Superettan in 2000 and it was reestablished for the 2006 season as the third tier below Superettan. There are 28 clubs in Division 1, divided in two groups of 14 teams each representing Northern and Southern Sweden. During the course of a season each club plays the others twice, once at their stadium and once at that of their opponents. At the end of season the three lowest placed teams of each group are relegated to Division 2 and the six winning teams from the six Division 2 leagues are promoted in their place. The top team in each Division 1 group is promoted to Superettan, the second placed teams in each Division 1 group plays a promotion/relegation play-off against the third and fourth lowest teams in Superettan. 1 Correct as of end of 2015 season Note, In 2007 the runners up were promoted automatically without playoffs because of Allsvenskan expanding to 16 teams
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AIK Fotboll
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Competing in Swedens first tier, Allsvenskan, the club was formed in 1891 in Stockholm City Centre and the football department was formed in 1896. League champions eleven times, winning their latest championship title in 2009, the club holds the record for having played the most seasons in the Swedish top flight. In addition, AIK is the club that has finished top three in Allsvenskan the most times in the current century, AIK is the only side from the Stockholm urban area to have qualified for the group stage of a UEFA competition. The club reached the quarter-finals of the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners Cup, qualified for the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League group stage, the club is affiliated with the Stockholm Football Association. The name was chosen to reflect that the club was open for everyone, putting football into practice in 1896, AIK were runners-up in the championship only two years later, in 1898. AIK won its first Swedish championship title in 1900, beating Örgryte IS in the final, in 1901, AIK won another title, after a walk-over win against Örgryte IS team II. At the turn of the century, Swedish league football was dominated by Örgryte, however, in the period of 1898–1901 AIK won the championship twice and were runners-up three times. In 1899 the team faced Djurgårdens IF for the first time, AIK did not participate in the Swedish championships of 1902 and 1903, which meant these were played only with teams from Gothenburg. In 1902, AIK instead competed in Svenska bollspelsförbundets tävlingsserie, a competition open only to clubs from Stockholm. AIK competed with two teams in the first year of the competition, finishing fourth and last, as a result, the weaker AIK side was relegated, making the first team the only one from AIK in the highest division. The competition was played until 1909, with AIK winning it in 1908 and 1909, two years after the start of the tävlingsserie,1904, twelve teams participated in the championship, one of them being AIK for the first time since winning it. AIK went through to the semi-finals, where they were beaten by archrivals Djurgårdens IF, in 1905, AIK went just as far, this time being beaten by IFK Stockholm. AIK competed in the three times in 1906–1910 without any success, but in 1911 they won the championship for the third time after beating IFK Uppsala in the final. After that, AIK were eliminated in the semi-finals of 1912 and 1913, in 1915, AIK were again defeated by archrivals Djurgården in the semi-finals. In 1916, however, AIK came back and defeated future rivals IFK Göteborg in the semi-finals, in 1917, Djurgården mirrored AIKs achievement, winning against Göteborg in the semi-finals and then beating AIK with 3–1 in the final. Another couple of years passed by without any success for AIK, until 1923, from the years 1910 to 1924, a championship called Svenska Serien was played. AIK didnt win it, but were runners-up a couple of times, the status of this championship status increased in the beginning of the 1920s and it became more important than the Swedish championship. In 1924, Svenska Serien was replaced by the current highest league, the first years, the championship were dominated by teams from Gothenburg and by Hälsingborgs IF
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Swedish Football Division 2
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Division 2 is the fourth level in the league system of Swedish football and comprises 84 Swedish football teams. Division 2 had status as the second level from 1928 to 1986. It then had status as the third level until 2005. There are 84 clubs in Division 2, divided in six groups of 14 teams each representing a geographical area. During the course of a season each club plays the others twice, once at their stadium and once at that of their opponents. The top team in each Division 2 group is promoted to Division 1, the Swedish Football Association is responsible for the administration of Division 2. Division 2 is the fourth-highest division in Swedish Football and it currently comprises six regional leagues which may show some small changes to their titles year on year reflecting the changing geographical distribution of clubs. The six sections for the 2014 season cover Norrland, Norra Svealand, Södra Svealand, Norra Götaland, Västra Götaland, Division 2 became official in 1928/29 as the second tier of Swedish football with 2 sections being created - Norra and Södra - with a total of 20 teams. In 1932/33 Division 2 was expanded into 4 sections covering Norra, Östra, Västra and Södra and this format continued until the end of the 1946/47 season. For the 1947/48 season a 2 section structure was restored comprising the Nordöstra and Sydvästra sections, in 1953/54 a section representing the northern clubs in Sweden was introduced for the first time known as Norrland. The other two sections were titled Svealand and Götaland, in 1955/56 it was decided that Götaland should have 2 sections. This provided Division 2 with 4 sections covering Norrland, Svealand, Östra Götaland, in 1972 the structure reverted to 3 sections titled Norra, Mellersta and Södra. This was short-lived and in 1974 two sections covering Norra and Södra were consolidated and this system continued until the end of the 1986 season when the competition became Division 1. From 1987 onwards Division 2 became the third highest league in Swedish football, the new division initially had 4 sections titled Norra, Mellersta, Östra and Västra. In 1993 it was divided into 6 sections titled Norrland, Östra Svealand, Västra Svealand, Östra Götaland, Västra Götaland, in 2006 Division 2 became Swedens fourth highest division with the introduction of Division 1 below the Superettan. The recipients are decided by a jury of sportsjournalists, coaches and football experts
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Landskrona BoIS
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Landskrona BoIS is a Swedish professional football club located in Landskrona, Scania, which currently plays in Division 1 Södra, the third tier of football in Sweden. The club was formed on 7 February 1915 through the merger of two older Landskrona clubs, IFK Landskrona and Diana, Landskrona BoIS was one of the twelve teams in the inaugural Allsvenskan season in 1924–25. Since then, they have played 34 seasons in Allsvenskan and 51 seasons in the second highest division, Landskrona BoIS has won four medals in Allsvenskan, little silver in 1937–38 and bronze in 1938–39,1975 and 1976, as well as one national cup title, in 1971–72. The club is affiliated with Skånes Fotbollförbund and plays its matches at Landskrona IP, the club is of open foundational type, not owned by any individuals. One of the earliest sports clubs in Landskrona was GF Idrott and the oldest one as of today, Landskrona Velocipedklubb built in 1893 a simple kind of cycle track which included a grass field in the middle, which eventually would become the first home ground of Landskrona BoIS. A year later football was introduced to an audience in Landskrona at an event hosted by GF Idrott at the pitch that the grass at Banan formed. The exhibition game between players of the section of Malmö Velocipedklubb was attended by 700 spectators. GF Idrott formed sections of several sports, Gymnatics, Athletics, Football, GF Idrott soon become a leading football club in Scania. Thus, GF Idrotts football section declined during the 1910s, in contrast, Landskrona-based competitor Diana appealed to the communitys socialist and sobriety movement subcultures. Diana also had an association with strict rules and the club had a formal leadership structure. Not much is known about the team, IFK Landskrona. Their main contribution to the merging seem to have been their players, the former chairman of Diana, Bror Nilsson, also became the first chairman of Landskrona BoIS, a position that he held until the end of the 1940s. Until the summer of 1924, the home pitch was Velocipedbanan. In July 1918, BoIS played their first match abroad, against Copenhagen-based KFUM, Albin played for the club between 1915 and 1921 before joining Helsingborgs IF together with his younger brother Harry Dahl in 1922. The transfer was fractious, as the clubs couldnt agree on the terms, however, unlike Albin, Harry returned to BoIS after only one season. For the following Olympics,1924 in Paris, both brothers were nominated to play for Sweden, however, Harrys supervisor at Thulinverket refused to let him go. 1924 brought the construction of Landskrona IP, occasionally referred to as Karlsunds IP in reference to the beech forest located just west of the arena, the new arena enabled Landskrona BoIS to become one of twelve clubs participating in the inaugural season of Allsvenskan. The inaugural Allsvenskan matchday concluded with Landskrona BoIS as the first ever Allsvenskan table leader, the clubs first Allsvenskan home game at Landskrona IP was a 4–0 defeat against IFK Göteborg
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Gefle IF
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Gefle Idrottsförening, also known simply as Gefle IF, Gefle, or locally Gif, are a Swedish professional football club based in Gävle. The club is affiliated with Gestriklands Fotbollförbund and play their games at Gavlevallen since the 2015 season. The club colours are blue and white, formed on 5 December 1882 as Gefle SK, the club have played fifteen seasons in Swedens highest football league Allsvenskan, with the first season being 1933–34. The club are playing in Allsvenskan, where the season lasts from April to November. Gefle IF was originally formed as Gefle SK in December 1882, the name Gefle is one of the old variations of spelling for the town Gävle which was used from the 1500s to the early 1900s. The multisports club mainly focused on sports during its early years. In 1896 the club started having regular football training sessions under the guidance of an English accountant by the name of Robert Carrick, born in England, he had grown up in Gävle but returned to his homeland for a few years as a student. There he had picked up the new sport which he brought back with him to Sweden, the club found early success at the turn of the century by winning one of the biggest swedish cups at the time, Rosenska Pokalen, three times. Due to high travel costs Gefle declined to participate in the other major football tournament, Svenska Mästerskapet. Therefore, the golden generation never got the chance to play against the nations other dominant team at the time. An ever increasing number of clubs were starting up in the early 1900s. When the first swedish league Svenska Serien started in 1910 Gefle IF were not included, during the rest of the 20th century the club mostly moved up and down between the second and third level of the Swedish football league system. They only managed two short lived stints at the top level Allsvenskan, one in the early 1930s and one in the early 1980s. Between the 1979 and 1981 season Gefle IF and Brynäs IF merged and played under the name Gefle IF/Brynäs, in 2004 manager Kenneth Rosén was finally able to bring the club back to the top division after finishing second in the 2004 Superettan. Rosén had missed part of the season due to illness. Long-time club servant Per Pelle Olsson immediately stepped in and took over as manager during the off-season, Olsson would remain as the manager until 2014 when he was announced as Djurgårdens IF, s new manager. Due to their status as a second or third division club the Gefle supporters were late starters in creating an organized supporters club. After some fledgeling attempts in the mid 1990s when the interest in traveling to away games increased, in 2009 Gefle IF caused controversy among its fans by changing the sky blue home shirt to white, the color which the club played in during its first 80 years
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Sandvikens AIK Fotboll
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Sandvikens AIK FK is a Swedish football club located in Sandviken. Sandvikens AIK FK currently plays in Division 4 Gestrikland which is the tier of Swedish football. In 1954–55 season the club played in the Allsvenskan and they play their home matches at the Arena Jernvallen in Sandviken. The club is affiliated to Gestriklands Fotbollförbund
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IK Sirius Fotboll
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IK Sirius is a Swedish football club located in Uppsala. The club is affiliated to the Upplands Fotbollförbund, the club was formed in 1907, with its first success coming in 1924 when they reached the Svenska Mästerskapet final. In the final, they were trounced 5–0 by Fässbergs IF, the 1990s were mostly spent at a second tier level, i. e. the old Division 1, corresponding to the modern Superettan. The club then played the first five years of the 21st century in Division 2, IK Sirius played the first leg at home against Väsby United on 25 October. Due to some poor defending, Väsby were able to go 1–0 up just before the half-time break. Sirius recovered slightly in the period, and were able to equalise in the 83rd minute. In the second leg, in front of about 1000 travelling fans, Sirius were completely dominant and they managed, however to break the deadlock in the 73rd minute, Olle Kullinger managing to knock a rebound past the Väsby keeper. With the aggregate score of 2–1, Sirius celebrated their 100th anniversary in the Superettan, magnus Pehrsson resigned as manager and Pär Millqvist was appointed and brought in Gary Sundgren as his assistant manager. After a strong first half of the season the club finished 7th in Superettan 2007, the team struggled through most of the 2008-season but finally finished 12, th and avoided relegation. Millqvist and Sundgren was sacked after the first six games and youth-team coaches Johan Mattsson, in preparation for the 2009 season they appointed Jens T Andersson from Väsby and AIK as new manager. Like the season before they struggled in the bottom of the league, assistant coach Andreas Brännström was once again hired as new head manager but this time he could not save the team from degradation. After a 0–1 defeat at home they lost the game with 3–0. 2011 the team was voted by all the managers of the league as favourites to win and they finished 3rd in Division 1 Norra, just 2 points from finishing first and goal-difference kept them from the second spot which leads to Superettan play-offs. As a result, coach Andreas Brännström and his assistant Antonio Andric was forced to leave the club after the season, on 17 November 2012 the club announced that the ex-Brommapojkarna manager Kim Bergstrand had been appointed as the new head coach. In 2012 the team were again the favourites to win the Division 1 Norra. A 0–1 home defeat to Vasalund and a 1–0 away win at Enköping set the team up for a match against second-placed Östersunds FK. Sirius needed a draw to win the league, but lost at home 0–1 and ended up third, the team had been bolstered by the signing of several experienced players, including former Djurgården, Molde and Sweden midfielder Johan Arneng. This time all the pieces fell into place as the team won the Division 1 Norra handily, securing promotion to Superettan with five games still in hand, and ending the season undefeated
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IFK Stockholm
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IFK Stockholm is multi-sports club in Stockholm, Sweden. It is most known for its football team, the club was formed 1 February 1895 as IF Kamraterna by two young students, Louis Zettersten and Pehr Ehnemark, and was the first IFK club. The club soon changed name to IFK Stockholm to differentiate it from the other IFK clubs that were formed in towns in Sweden. The club had minor successes in the days of Swedish football. The club is affiliated to the Stockholms Fotbollförbund, the club also sponsors bowling and swimming. It formerly also sponsored ice hockey and played its games at the Hovet. It also played bandy, a sport in which it was the runner-up for the Swedish Championship in 1910, the mens bandy team has played seven seasons in the Swedish top division
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Westermalms IF
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Westermalms IF FK is a Swedish football club located in Stockholm that competed in the Allsvenskan for two seasons in the late 1920s. The club currently play seven tiers lower in Division 6 Stockholm C, Westermalms IF is a Swedish sports club from Kungsholmen in the centre of Stockholm. The club caters for football, handball, floorball and athletics, the club also spent seven seasons in Division 2 in the 1920s and early 1930s. They won the Division 2 Östsvenska Serien on 3 occasions, the last time being in 1927/28 Westermalms IF was founded on the Friday 1 August 1902 when 17 young people met at a cafe at Fleminggatan 62, the original name of the club was Idrottsklubben Friggs. Barely a decade later the club was already among the best football teams in Sweden, individual players such as Herbert Almqvist, Rune Bergström and Birger Carlsson were among a number of players at the club, who represented the Swedish national team. In later years the fortunes of Westermalms IF FK plummeted and the club has remained entrenched in the divisions of the Swedish football league system. The club currently plays in Division 6 Stockholm C which is the tier of Swedish football. They play their matches at the Stadshagens IP in Stockholm. Westermalms IF are affiliated to the Stockholms Fotbollförbund, in their halcyon early seasons Westermalms IF competed in the following divisions, In recent seasons Westermalms IF have competed in the following divisions, Westermalms IF – Official Website
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IFK Eskilstuna
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IFK Eskilstuna is a Swedish football club located in Eskilstuna in Södermanland County. In their early seasons IFK had a record as an Allsvenskan club. Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Eskilstuna, which is the full name, were founded on 9 September 1897 and have a long rivalry with Eskilstuna City FK. Historically IFK Eskilstuna have the record having spent 14 seasons in the Allsvenskan. In 1910, IFK participated in the first Svenska Serien along with IFK Göteborg, Örgryte IS, AIK and their first championship final match took place in 1921 when IFK defeated IK Sleipner 2–1 at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium before 11,695 spectators. They competed in another championship match in 1923, this time going down 5–1 to AIK. In the early years, the club played bandy and was playing in the then Swedish top-tier league Division 1 for two years in the 1930s. IFK competed in the very first Allsvenskan season in 1924/25 and played a further 13 seasons in the Allsvenskan from 1924/25-1928/29, 1930/31-1935/36, 1942/43 and their best season was in 1931/32 when they finished in fifth place. The marathon table of Allsvenskan teams shows IFK in 23rd position, IFK reached the Allsvenskan qualifying stage in 1981 after winning Division 2 Norra in fine style by pipping Orebro SK to the top position. However, IFK failed to win the play-offs against Kalmar FF to progress to the higher level, the 1987 season proved another near miss when IFK finished in second place to second place in Division I Norra to Djurgarden. In 1988 history was repeated, this time IFK finishing second to Orebro SK, in 1992 IFK were relegated from Division 1 and subsequently have competed in the middle divisions of the Swedish football league system. The club currently plays in Division 3 Västra Svealand which is the tier of Swedish football. They play their matches at the Tunavallen in Eskilstuna. IFK Eskilstuna are affiliated to the Södermanlands Fotbollförbund, the club have an active youth section. In 1970 and 1985 the junior team won the Swedish Junior Championship, famous footballers who have played for IFK Eskilstuna include Kenneth Andersson and Sebastian Larsson. In recent seasons IFK Eskilstuna have had the average attendances. Swedish ChampionsWinners,1921 Division 1 Norra, Runners-up,1987,1988 Svenska Mästerskapet, ^ The title of Swedish Champions has been awarded to the winner of four different competitions over the years. Between 1896 and 1925 the title was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet, no club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played
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Hammarby Fotboll
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Currently competing in Swedens first tier, Allsvenskan, Hammarby are placed twelfth in the all-time Allsvenskan table, and won said league in 2001. The clubs colours are green and white, which is reflected in its crest and, since 1978, prior to 1978 the club played in black-and-yellow striped shirts, which are currently the clubs away colors. Hammarby is known for its vociferous fans and for having the highest average attendance in the Nordic countries, drawing inspiration from England, Hammarby fans introduced football chants to the Swedish terraces in 1970. Hammarby Fotboll is affiliated with the Stockholms Fotbollförbund, in 1889, Hammarby Roddförening was established, with the engineer Axel Robert Schönthal being the first chairman. By 1897, it had diversified into different sports, and was renamed Hammarby Idrottsförening, in 1915, the club established a football division when it merged with Klara SK. In 1918, Hammarby IF merged with Johanneshovs IF, in the early 1920s, they had a strong showing where they went to the finals of Svenska Mästerskapet in 1922, losing to GAIS, but qualified to compete in Allsvenskans inaugural season in 1924. The club finished last in the 1924–25 Allsvenskan, and were relegated to Division 2, in the 1936–37 season, the club placed first in its section, but lost the playoff match that would have promoted them to Allsvenskan. The following season, the club placed first in its section again, in the 1938–39 season, the club placed first in its section and finally qualified for Allsvenskan. Although the club finished last in Allsvenskan in 1939–40, the eventually finished in the top four for the next six years back in Division 2. In the 1946–47 season, the club finished tenth and last place in Division 2, but because of a restructuring of the league system, Hammarby did not return to the second highest league until the 1950–51 season. In the 1954–55 season, the returned to Allsvenskan, but this time it finished sixth. However, the club underwent yo-yoing, having been promoted and relegated between Allsvenskan and Division 2 seven times until 1970, Nacka Skoglund, one of the leagues top players who played for Hammarby from 1944–49, returned to Hammarby to play from 1964–67. In his return debut, he landed a kick into the goal minutes into the match, in 1984. In the 1970 Allsvenskan season, Hammarby had acquired only 3 points in the portion of the season. The club would stay in Allsvenskan through the rest of the 1970s, attracting large crowds, also in 1978, the club changed from black/yellow to green/white colours. In the 1982 season, Swedish football introduced a system for the top 8 teams in Allsvenskan to decide a champion. The playoffs consisted of two matches in which the score would determine who would advance. The club had placed second overall that season and had not lost a home game, after defeating Örgryte in the quarter-finals, and coming back from a 1–3 deficit to beat Elfsborg 4–3 in the semi-finals, Hammarby was in the final against IFK Göteborg
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IK Sleipner
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Idrottsklubben Sleipner is a sports club in Norrköping, Sweden, the main sports are football and ten-pin bowling. It was founded in 1903, and named after the deity Odins horse Sleipnir from Norse mythology, currently, the clubs senior mens team plays football in Division 2. They are mostly known for winning Allsvenskan in 1938, but have since been overshadowed by local rivals IFK Norrköping both locally and nationally, the club is affiliated to the Östergötlands Fotbollförbund. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality, in recent seasons IK Sleipner have had the following average attendances, A. ^ The title of Swedish Champions has been awarded to the winner of four different competitions over the years, between 1896 and 1925 the title was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played, in 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 a play-off in cup format was held at the end of the season to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the title was decided by the winner of Mästerskapsserien, since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan. IK Sleipner SvenskFotboll. se – IK Sleipner
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Helsingborgs IF
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Helsingborgs IF, commonly referred to as Helsingborg, or HIF, is a Swedish football club located in Helsingborg. They are currently playing in the second highest Swedish league, Superettan, the club, formed 4 June 1907, has won five national championship titles and five national cup titles. Helsingborgs IF have also won Allsvenskan on two occasions when the title of Swedish champions was not decided by the outcome of that league. Helsingborg was a member of Allsvenskan, and between 1924 and 1968 they spent all but two seasons in the top division, and won the league five times. Having returned to Allsvenskan in 1993, Helsingborg remained in the top division until 2016, the club is affiliated to the Skånes Fotbollförbund. The club was formed in 1907 after the merger of Svithiod and Stattena, otto Malm was a star of the team, in the 1911–12 season he scored 69 goals in only 24 games. At the end of his time at Helsingborgs IF he had played 500 games, the year after the clubs formation, John Pettersson joined as club president, and during his tenure the club won the league five times. The year after, the changed their kit from white shirts and blue shorts to red shirts and blue shorts. In 1914 the club lost in the final of the Svenska Cupen and that year the club were invited to play in the Swedish Series, but declined because they thought that playing friendlies brought higher attendances. Additionally, the players were part-time, meaning that regular away matches would have been impractical. On 30 May 1915, the club lost 5–4 to Gӧta in the District Championships,1918 again saw the club finish second the Svenska Cupen, after losing to IFK Göteborg. With the arrival of Norwegian manager Åge Hareide things started to look good for the first time in many years. During Hareides first year HIF finished 2nd in the league and won Allsvenskan in 1999, following the World Cup break however, Henrik Larsson arrived at Helsingborg along with a new manager, Stuart Baxter, and Helsingborg started to win matches. After a pretty mediocre season Helsingborg finished 8th in the league, Helsingborg however managed to make it to the group stage after eliminating the Dutch team SC Heerenveen. Helsingborg ended up in the group as FC Girondins de Bordeaux, Galatasaray S. K, FK Austria Wien. With wins against Galatasaray and Austria Wien, a draw against Panionios, PSV won 2–0 at home and 2–1 away. It was from the only supposed to be temporary but after a few months of good results. The official anthem of Helsingborg is På Gator Röda och Blå by Björns Band, as of 18 February 2017 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules
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Gothenburg
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Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, the city has a population of approximately 550,000 in the urban area, Gothenburg was founded as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony, by royal charter in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus. At a key location at the mouth of the Göta älv, where Scandinavias largest drainage basin enters the sea. Gothenburg is home to students, as the city includes the University of Gothenburg. Volvo was founded in Gothenburg in 1927, the original, parent Volvo Group and the now separate Volvo Car Corporation are still headquartered on the island of Hisingen in the city. Other key companies are SKF and Astra Zeneca, Gothenburg is served by Göteborg Landvetter Airport 30 km southeast of the city center. The smaller Göteborg City Airport,15 km from the city center, was closed to airline traffic in 2015. The city hosts some of the largest annual events in Scandinavia, the Gothenburg Film Festival, held in January since 1979, is the leading Scandinavian film festival with over 155,000 visitors each year. In summer, a variety of music festivals are held in the city, such as Way Out West. The city was named after the Geats, the inhabitants of Gothia, the river on which the city sits is the Göta älv or Gothia River. Göta borg Gothia Fortress is the fort on the Göta Älv, in Dutch, Scots, and English, all languages with a long history in this trade and maritime-oriented city, the name Gothenburg is used for the city. The French form of the city name is Gothembourg, but in French texts, Gothenburg can also be seen in some older English texts. In Spanish the city is called Gotemburgo and these traditional forms are sometimes replaced with the use of the Swedish Göteborg, for example by The Göteborg Opera and the Göteborg Ballet. However, Göteborgs universitet, previously designated as the Göteborg University in English, the Gothenburg municipality has also reverted to the use of the English name in international contexts. Other old variations in Swedish are Götheborgh, and the more common Götheborg, one English text, written in the late 15th century, states the name as Guthaeborg. In 2009, the city launched a new logotype for Gothenburg. Since the name Göteborg contains the Swedish letter ö the idea was to make the more international. As of 2015, the name is spelled Go, teborg on a number of signs in the city
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Stockholm
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The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago and the Baltic Sea. The area has settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC. It is also the capital of Stockholm County, Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the countrys GDP and it is an important global city, and the main centre for corporate headquarters in the Nordic region. The city is home to some of Europes top ranking universities, such as the Stockholm School of Economics, Karolinska Institute and it hosts the annual Nobel Prize ceremonies and banquet at the Stockholm Concert Hall and Stockholm City Hall. One of the citys most prized museums, the Vasa Museum, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia. The Stockholm metro, opened in 1950, is known for its decoration of the stations. Swedens national football arena is located north of the city centre, Ericsson Globe, the national indoor arena, is in the southern part of the city. The city was the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics, and hosted the equestrian portion of the 1956 Summer Olympics otherwise held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Stockholm is the seat of the Swedish government and most of its agencies, including the highest courts in the judiciary, and the official residencies of the Swedish monarch and the Prime Minister. The government has its seat in the Rosenbad building, the Riksdag is seated in the Parliament House, and the Prime Ministers residence is adjacent at the Sager House. After the Ice Age, around 8,000 BCE, there were already a number of people living in the present-day Stockholm area. Thousands of years later, as the ground thawed, the climate became tolerable, at the intersection of the Baltic Sea and lake Mälaren is an archipelago site where the Old Town of Stockholm was first built from about 1000 CE by Vikings. They had a positive impact on the area because of the trade routes they created. Stockholms location appears in Norse sagas as Agnafit, and in Heimskringla in connection with the legendary king Agne, the earliest written mention of the name Stockholm dates from 1252, by which time the mines in Bergslagen made it an important site in the iron trade. The first part of the name means log in Swedish, although it may also be connected to an old German word meaning fortification, the second part of the name means islet, and is thought to refer to the islet Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm. Stockholms core, the present Old Town was built on the island next to Helgeandsholmen from the mid 13th century onward. The city originally rose to prominence as a result of the Baltic trade of the Hanseatic League, Stockholm developed strong economic and cultural linkages with Lübeck, Hamburg, Gdańsk, Visby, Reval, and Riga during this time
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Landskrona
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In 1720 the town, like its province, became a formal part of Sweden. Around the Castle build by Danish king Christian III in 1549, Landskrona Citadel, today the Citadel is famous for its well-preserved moat system, which includes parts of four moats. At the northern part of the Citadel, Swedens second, and its port is based on a natural chute in the sandy sea floor, despite the lack of any nearby debouching river. The town is the seat of Landskrona Municipality, the town, which in March 2013 celebrated its 600th birthday, had close to 33,000 inhabitants at that time. For many years the town had a car line to Copenhagen. Landskrona is located close to the Danish capital, from Rådhustorget in Landskrona to Amalienborg Royal Palace in central Copenhagen, the crow flight distance is around 22–23 km. In the later parts of the 19th century, the town was transformed from a settlement to a heavy industrial town. Between 1917 and 1983, the shipyard had up to 3,500 employees. The foundation was done at a place for a fishing settlement, today, there is still a very small settlement just north of the town, known as Säby. This probably was the Nørre Sæby in the beginning of the 15th century, but since the village became the town. The original name of the officially founded town was Landszcrone, but changed to Landskrone sometime before 1450. A Carmelite monastery was founded in 1410, English merchants were granted the privileges in a charter in 1412. The monastery was closed by King Christian III after the reformation, a smaller street is named after this very contemplative and closed order, Karmelitergatan. The closest settlement Rydebäck belongs to the city, but the convent is entirely located within Landskronas countryside. The corresponding monastery is located in Norraby and this is located east of the town and its quite small countryside. The town supported the king Christian II, and opposed the Reformation in Denmark, the Reformist King Christian III of Denmark opted not to retaliate against the town, and instead founded a castle to protect the harbour. The castle, built where the monastery had been situated until the Reformation, was completed by 1559, the castle was reinforced by bastions, and the area inside the moats extended to 400x400 meters. The castle was considered the strongest and most modern in Scandinavia, the commandant Colonel Hieronymus Lindeberg was consequently sentenced to death for high treason
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Eskilstuna City FK
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Eskilstuna City FK is a Swedish football club located in Eskilstuna. The club is playing in Division 2, the club, formed on 1 November 1907 as IK City, is playing in Division 2 Södra Svealand, the fourth highest Swedish league. IK City played one season in the highest league of Sweden, Allsvenskan, in 1925–26, the club changed to its present name before the 2000 season. They play their matches at the Tunavallen in Eskilstuna. City FK is currently the biggest football club in Eskilstuna, as well, the club played in Division 2 for 23 straight years — from 1988 until their promotion in 2011. Since 2006, Eskilstuna Södra FF have had an agreement with Eskilstuna City FK. In November 2007, the City FK reached an agreement, called Eskilstuna Elitfotboll, the agreement stipulates that the City shall constitute the citys top team with a view to progressing to the Allsvenskan while IFK will play a development role. The agreement covers a period and it must then be re-negotiated and renewed every two years. In terms of the clubs playing history, the contractual implications may seem a little surprising given IFK’s stronger record. However, City now play in a division than IFK and are more solid financially. City promoted to Division 1 in 2011, after remaining in the Division 2 for 23 straight years, Eskilstuna City FK are affiliated to the Södermanlands Fotbollförbund
Sweden: Frithiof Rudén - Valdus Lund, Einar Hemming - Gunnar Eriksson, Helge Andersson, Harry Sundberg - Rune Bergström, Helmer Svedberg, Per Kaufeldt, Helge Ekroth, Rudolf Kock.
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