Degerfors IF is a Swedish professional

football club In association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which association football teams organise their sporting activities. The club can exist either as ...

located in

Degerfors Degerfors () is a locality and the seat of Degerfors Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden, with 7,160 inhabitants in 2010. Degerfors is the sixth-largest city in Örebro County. It is located at the southern shore of lake Möckeln, 13 km (8 mi) so ...

. The club, formed 13 January 1907, is currently playing in the highest tier in Swedish football,

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; ), also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan (, ) is a professional association football league in Sweden and the highest level of the Swedish football league system. Founded in 1924, it operates on a system of promotion and relegatio ...

Background

Degerfors IF first played in the

in 1939, making use of their new home ground at

Stora Valla Stora Valla is a multi-use stadium in Degerfors, Sweden. It is currently used mostly for Association football, football matches and hosts the home matches of Degerfors IF. The stadium holds 12,500 people and opened in 1938. The record attendance i ...

. 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 Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollför ...

in 1963. The club is affiliated to the

Värmlands Fotbollförbund The Värmlands Fotbollförbund ''(Värmland Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in the historical province of Värmland. Background Värmlands ...

Season to season

Players

Staff

Current technical staff

Managers

* Arnold Andersson-Tagner (1936–37) *

István Wampetits István Wampetits, also spelled as István Vampetich (1903–1993) was a Hungarian-Swedish football player and coach. Wampetits coached Debreceni VSC, Degerfors IF, Malmö FF, Kalmar FF, AIK, Halmstads BK, Örgryte IS and HIFK HIFK, the Idr ...

(1937–44) *

Einar Skeppstedt Einar is a Scandinavian given name deriving from the Old Norse name Einarr, which according to Guðbrandur Vigfússon is directly connected with the concept of the einherjar, warriors who died in battle and ascended to Valhalla in Norse mythology ...

(1945–47) *

Edmund Crawford Edmond Crawford (31 October 1906 – 13 December 1977) was an English people, English association football, footballer and football manager. Playing career Crawford started his career as an amateur when joining his two brothers at Filey Town ...

(1948–49) * Karl-Erik Jakobsson (1950) *

Imre Markos Imre Markos (9 June 1908 – 27 September 1960) was a Hungarian football player and coach. Career Playing career Markos, who played as a forward, spent his professional career in both Hungary and France, playing for Bocskai FC and Stade Renna ...

(1951–53) * Gunnar Andersson (1953) *

Karl Neschy Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl of Austria, last Austrian Emperor * Karl (footballer) (born 1993), Karl Cachoe ...

(1954–57) *

Olle Åhlund Sten Olov “Olle” Åhlund (22 August 1920 – 11 February 1996) was a Swedish footballer, who played for Degerfors IF. He played 34 games for the Sweden national team achieving a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer ...

(1957–59) * Bill Burnikell (1960–61) * Tore Karlsson (1961) *

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, ...

(1961–64) * Vilmos Varszegi (1965–66) * Ernst Bohlin (1961–67) * Tore Karlsson (1968) *

Åke Klintberg Åke is a masculine Swedish given name, possibly derived from the medieval Germanic name ''Anicho'', derived from ''ano'' meaning "ancestor". In Sweden, May 8 is the Name day for Åke. There are variant spellings, including the Danish/ Norweg ...

(1969) *

(1970) * Tore Karlsson (1971–72) * Håkan Höglander (1973–74) *

Curt Edenvik Kurt is a male given name in Germanic languages. ''Kurt'' or ''Curt'' originated as short forms of the Germanic Konrad/Conrad, depending on geographical usage, with meanings including counselor or advisor. Like Conrad, it can also a surname an ...

(1975) *

Tord Grip Tord Erland Grip (born 13 January 1938) is a Swedish former association football, football coach and Football player, player. He has worked with several national teams, including England national football team, England, Sweden men's national foot ...

(1976) *

Sven-Göran Eriksson Sven-Göran Eriksson (; 5 February 1948 – 26 August 2024) was a Swedish association football, football player and Coach (sport), manager. After a playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management ...

(1977–78) * Lars-Åke Bäckström (1979–80) * Peter Pallman (1980) * Janusz Pekowski (1981–82) * Dave Mosson (1983–85) *

Björn Juhlin Bjorn, Bjorne (English, Dutch), Björn (Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, and German), Bjørn (Danish, Faroese and Norwegian), Beorn (Old English) or, rarely, Bjôrn, Biorn, or Latinized Biornus, Brum (Portuguese), is a Scandinavian male given name, or ...

(1986–87) * Lars Henriksson (1988) * Kenneth Sundkvist (1989) *

Sören Cratz Carl Sören Harry Cratz (born 28 September 1948) is a Swedish former football manager. As a manager of Hammarby IF, he won the 2001 Allsvenskan Allsvenskan 2001, part of the 2001 Swedish football season, was the 77th Allsvenskan season played. ...

(1990–92) * Börje Andersson (1993) *

Erik Hamrén Erik Anders Hamrén (born 27 June 1957) is a Swedish manager and former football player, who most recently was the manager of Danish Superliga club AaB. He also previously coached the Sweden national team between 2009 and 2016 and the Iceland ...

(1994) *

(1995–96) * Bosse Nilsson (1997) *

Örjan Glans Örjan (OErjan) is an old Swedish male name originating from the Low German name ''Jurian'' or ''Jurien'' which is a variant of George. The Name Day in Sweden is July 9. The Norwegian version of the name is Ørjan. The name has been present in ...

(1998) * Kenneth Norling (1999–2001) * Dave Mosson (2002–04) *

Tony Gustavsson Tony Gustavsson (born 14 August 1973) is a Swedish professional association football, football Manager (association football), manager and former player who will take over as the head coach of the Sweden women's national football team, Sweden wo ...

(2005–06) *

Mark Selmer Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currenc ...

(2007) *

Milenko Vukčević Milenko Vukčević (born 14 September 1966) is a Yugoslav former professional footballer who played as a midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position pr ...

(2007) * Jan Stahre (2008) *

Patrik Werner Patrik Werner (born 16 March 1976) is a Swedish football manager and former player. He works at Degerfors IF Degerfors IF is a Swedish professional association football, football club located in Degerfors. The club, formed 13 January 1907, ...

(2009–2016)http://www.nwt.se/sport/folj_degerfors/article1116863.ece?service=mobile * Stefan Jacobsson (2016–2019) *

Tobias Solberg Tobias is the transliteration of the , which is a Graecisation of the Hebrew biblical name . With the biblical Book of Tobit being present in the Deuterocanonical books and Biblical apocrypha, Tobias is a popular male given name for both Christi ...

and Andreas Holmberg (2020–2023) * William Lundin (2024–)

Honours

League

: **Runners-up: 1940–41,

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...

Superettan Superettan (; ) is an association football league and the second highest league in the Swedish football league system, league system of Swedish football, Swedish men's football. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and rel ...

: ** Winners:

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

Division 1 Norra Ettan Fotboll, or simply Ettan (), which also is its common name in everyday speech, is the third level in the Swedish football league system and consists of 32 Swedish football teams. It was formerly simply known as ''Division 1''. Division 1 ...

: ** Winners:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

Cups

Svenska Cupen Svenska cupen (, ), also known as the Swedish Cup in English, is a knockout cup competition in Swedish football and the main Swedish football cup. ''Svenska cupen'' usually refers to the men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also ...

: **Winners: 1992–93

Footnotes

External links

Degerfors IF
nbsp;– official site
Vulkanerna
nbsp;– official supporter club site
Degerfors IF J
nbsp;– official site for the junior team (archived 13 March 2007) {{Authority control Football clubs in Örebro County Allsvenskan clubs Association football clubs established in 1907 1907 establishments in Sweden Svenska Cupen winners Degerfors 20th-century establishments in Örebro County