Almtuna Idrottssällskap, commonly known as Almtuna IS, is a
Swedish ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...
club based in
Uppsala
Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Loc ...
and is currently playing in
HockeyAllsvenskan
HockeyAllsvenskan (previously Allsvenskan and SuperAllsvenskan) is a professional ice hockey sports league, league, and the second-highest league in the Swedish ice hockey system, after the Swedish Hockey League, SHL. Since the 2009–10 season, t ...
, the second highest league of ice hockey in Sweden. The team maintained its place in the Allsvenskan despite suffering relegation in the
2018–19 season following the exit of
IK Pantern
Ishockeyklubben Pantern, also known as IK Pantern, are a Swedish ice hockey club based in Malmö. They currently play in Hockeyettan, the third tier of ice hockey in Sweden. they were reformed in 2019.
History
IK Pantern was founded in 1959. On ...
due to economic troubles prior to the 2019–20 season.
History
Almtuna IS was founded in 1932 with teams in
football
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,
bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.
The playin ...
and
table tennis
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. In 1947
ice hockey
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was added to the clubs program.
In the 1980s Almtuna IS became a strictly ice hockey team, and in 2006 they added a women's team.
Season-by-season results
updated December 3, 2013
Some seasons statistics are not available or have not yet been located.
References
External links
Almtuna IS official websiteAlmtuna IS fan club website
Ice hockey teams in Uppsala County
Sports clubs and teams in Uppsala
Association football clubs established in 1932
Bandy clubs established in 1932
Ice hockey clubs established in 1932
1932 establishments in Sweden
Defunct bandy clubs in Sweden
HockeyAllsvenskan teams
20th-century establishments in Uppsala County
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