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Kalmar FF
Kalmar Fotbollförening, more commonly known as Kalmar FF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Kalmar, Sweden. The club is affiliated to Smålands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Guldfågeln Arena. Formed on 15 June 1910, the club have won one national championship title (2008) and three national cup titles (1981, 1987, and 2007). In total, KFF has made 35 seasons in Allsvenskan since the debut in the 1949. The club can be found at the 13th position in the all-time Allsvenskan standings, is one of 14 Swedish football clubs that have become both national champions and national cup champions, and one of 14 clubs that have always played in one of the three highest Swedish national football leagues. Kalmar FF's main local rivals are Östers IF and during the 1980s and 90s Kalmar AIK. History Early Years On 15 June 1910, the club IF Göta was created, however they were not allowed to enter the '' Riksidrottsförbundet'' due to a conflict regarding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guldfågeln Arena
Kalmar Arena, currently known as Guldfågeln Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a association football, football stadium in Kalmar, Sweden and the home of Allsvenskan club Kalmar FF. The stadium is located in the area known as Hansa City, in the North West of Kalmar. The arena was completed within the date of March 15, 2011 as expected. The first game, an Allsvenskan match between Kalmar FF and Djurgårdens IF Fotboll, Djurgårdens IF held on April 11, was attended by 11,852 fans and won by Kalmar 3–2. Kalmar Arena is also one of the arenas used for the UEFA Women's Euro 2013, as Kalmar Arena, with three matches in the preliminaries as well as one quarter final. History The football stadium consists of 11,000 seats under roof, and has a natural grass playing field grown in place. Beside the Association football pitch, football pitch in the stadium, the construction work also includes three pitches that will be used for practise sessions only (two with natural grass and one with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IF Göta
IF Göta is a sports club in Karlstad, Sweden, founded in 1904. In the beginning, the club practised football and athletics. The club used to have a successful team in bandy, becoming Swedish champions six times, but now is only concentrated on athletics. The bandy department was merged with IF Boltic to form BS BolticGöta. The club is sometimes unofficially called ''IF Karlstad-Göta'' to avoid confusion with the Stockholm-based sports club IK Göta. History In the first year of bandy league system in Sweden, 1930–31, Göta entered in Division 1 Södra together with Djurgårdens IF, IFK Strängnäs, IFK Uppsala, IK Göta, Linköpings AIK, Nässjö IF, and Örebro SK Örebro Sportklubb, more commonly known as Örebro SK, Örebro or (especially locally) ÖSK, is a Swedish professional football club based in Örebro. The club are affiliated to Örebro Läns Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Behrn ... and finished 1st. Honours Domestic * Swedish Champions: * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borgholm
Borgholm () is a city and the seat of Borgholm Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 4,401 inhabitants in 2020. It is located on the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea, at the Kalmar Strait-side of Öland, north of Färjestaden. Borgholm is one of Sweden's historical towns with a former city status (''stad''). The city is best known for its once-magnificent fortress – Borgholm Castle – which is now in ruins. Borgholm is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a ''city''. Statistics Sweden, however, only counts localities with more than 10,000 inhabitants as cities. Borgholm is the main city of Öland, but remains one of the smallest cities in Sweden. Geography The city is situated some north of the Öland Bridge, which connects the island with the city of Kalmar on the mainland. Etymology The name Borgholm is documented to be found from the 1280s. The foreland Borg- is considered to refer to the old ancient castle which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Nordahl
Nils Gunnar Nordahl (; 19 October 1921 – 15 September 1995) was a Swedish professional footballer. A highly prolific, powerful, and physically strong striker, with an eye for goal, he is best known for his spell at AC Milan from 1949 to 1956, in which he won the ''scudetto'' twice, and also the title of ''pluricapocannoniere'', with an unprecedented five top scorer (''capocannonieri'') awards, more than any other player in the history of the Italian championship. Nordahl is Milan’s all-time record goalscorer, and he long held the record for most goals for a single club in the history of Italian league, before being surpassed by Francesco Totti in January 2012. He still holds the record for goals per appearance in Italy. He had several nicknames in Italy, whereof the most famous was ''Il Cannoniere'' ("The Prime Gunner"). He was also known as ''Il Pompiere'' ("The Fireman") and ''Il Bisonte'' ("The Bison'"). A full international between 1942 and 1948, he won 33 caps and sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Degerfors IF
Degerfors IF is a Swedish professional association football, football club located in Degerfors. The club, formed 13 January 1907, is currently playing in the highest tier in Swedish football, Allsvenskan. Background Degerfors IF first played in the Allsvenskan in 1939, making use of their new home ground at Stora Valla. Up until 1966, the club regularly appeared in the Allsvenskan; however, in recent decades they have played at the highest level for 5 seasons from 1993 to 1997. Their record attendance is 21,065 spectators when Degerfors IF played IFK Norrköping in 1963. The club is affiliated to the Värmlands Fotbollförbund. Season to season Players Staff Current technical staff Managers * Arnold Andersson-Tagner (1936–37) * István Wampetits (1937–44) * Einar Skeppstedt (1945–47) * Edmund Crawford (1948–49) * Karl-Erik Jakobsson (1950) * Imre Markos (1951–53) * Gunnar Andersson (manager), Gunnar Andersson (1953) * Karl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halmstads BK
Halmstads Bollklubb, also known simply as Halmstad () or (especially locally) HBK or Bollklubben, is a Swedish professional Association football, football club located in Halmstad in the county of Halland. The club, formed 7 February 1914 and approved membership in the Swedish Sports Confederation on 6 March the same year. The club competes in the highest tier of Swedish football, Allsvenskan, and has won four List of Swedish football champions, national championship titles and one Svenska Cupen, national cup title. HBK is a member-controlled club. The club gained some European recognition in October 1995, when they defeated the successful Italian club Parma Calcio 1913, Parma A.C. 3–0 at Gamla Ullevi (1916), Gamla Ullevi (in Gothenburg) in the first of two matches in the 1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Cup Winners' Cup. However, their second encounter, in Parma in November of the same year, ended with a crushing 0–4 defeat, eliminating them from the tournament. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malmö FF
Malmö Fotbollförening (), commonly known simply as Malmö FF or MFF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö, Scania. They compete in the Allsvenskan, the top division of Swedish football, and play home matches at the Eleda Stadion. Malmö FF is Sweden's most successful football club in terms of domestic trophies won. They hold 24 List of Swedish football champions, Swedish championships and 16 Svenska Cupen titles, both of which are national records. The club formed in 1910 and is affiliated with the Skånes Fotbollförbund, Scania Football Association, winning its first national championship in 1943–44 Allsvenskan, 1944. Their most successful period was the 1970s, during which they won five Swedish championships, four Svenska Cupen titles, and became the only side from the Nordic countries to have reached the List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League finals, a European Cup or UEFA Champions League final. They finished as runner-up in the 1978–79 Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statens Järnvägar
The Swedish State Railways () or SJ, originally the Royal Railway Board (), was the former Government agencies in Sweden, government agency responsible for operating the state-owned railways in Sweden. History The Swedish State Railways was created on 1 June 1888 as an agency belonging to the Ministry for Civil Service Affairs, with the task of managing all state-owned railway lines in Sweden, and was transferred to the Ministry of Communications (Sweden), Ministry of Communications in 1920. In 1988, the rail tracks themselves were transferred to the Swedish Rail Administration (), and in the upcoming years parts of SJ were gradually transformed into limited companies as a result of the Open access (infrastructure), open access obligation introduced by EU Directive 91/440. SJ was disbanded in 2001, with the assets transferred to seven separate companies, the first three owned by the Swedish government and the latter four being privatized: *SJ AB, usually called SJ, the pass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skåne
Scania ( ), also known by its native name of Skåne (), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces () of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous with Skåne County, created in 1997. Like the other historical provinces of Sweden, Scania still features in colloquial speech and in cultural references, and can therefore not be regarded as an archaic concept. Within Scania there are 33 municipalities of Sweden, municipalities that are autonomous within the Skåne Regional Council. Scania's largest urban areas of Sweden, city, Malmö, is the third-largest city in Sweden, as well as the fifth-largest in Scandinavia. To the north, Scania borders the historical provinces of Halland and Småland, to the northeast Blekinge, to the east and south the Baltic Sea, and to the west Öresund. Since 2000, a road and railway bridge, the Öresund Bridge, bridges the Öresund, Sound and connects Scania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Småland
Småland () is a historical Provinces of Sweden, province () in southern Sweden. Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name ''Småland'' literally means "small lands", referring to many small historic provinces from which it was composed. The Latinized form has been used in other languages. The highest point in Småland is Tomtabacken, at 377 metres (1,237 ft). In terms of total area, Småland is similar in size to Belgium and Israel. Administration Whilst the traditional provinces of Sweden no longer serve any governmental purpose ''per se'', they do retain historical and cultural importance. The province of Småland today is divided almost entirely into the three administrative Counties of Sweden, counties of Jönköping County, Jönköping, Kalmar County, Kalmar, and Kronoberg County, Kronoberg. Some few small portions of historic Småland are situated in Halland County, Halland and Öst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
