Falu FK is a

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football club located in

Falun Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with just over 100,000 inhabi ...

Dalarna County Dalarna County ( sv, Dalarnas län) is a county or '' län'' in central Sweden ( Svealand). It borders on the counties of Uppsala, Jämtland, Gävleborg, Västmanland, Örebro and Värmland. It also borders on the Norwegian counties of Hed ...

Background

Falu FK was founded on 27 February 2006 following a joint initiative of the football sections of

Falu BS Falu Bandysällskap, ''Falu BS'', is a bandy club from Falun in Sweden. Falu BS was founded as ''Falu Bollsällskap'' on 10 December 1935, by merging Falu BK, Holmens IF, Falu SK and IFK Falun. All these clubs were playing bandy. In 1936 the ...

, Slätta SK und Korsnäs IF FK clubs. The men's teams of the top two clubs merged in September of that year while Korsnäs IF FK retained its independence. Falu BS and Slätta SK now only operate in football youth development. The newly formed club took the place of Falu BS in the third-tier Division 1 Norra. Since their foundation Falu FK has participated in the middle divisions of the

Swedish football league system The Swedish football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in Sweden which is controlled by the Swedish Football Association and consists of 288 teams in 22 leagues divided into five levels. Below those five leve ...

. The club currently plays in Division 2 Norra Svealand which is the fourth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Kopparvallen in Falun. Falu FK are affiliated to Dalarnas Fotbollförbund.

Current squad

Staff

* Head coach: Tomas Johansson * Assistant coach: Peter Lundin * Team-Manager: Patrik Andersson * Fitness coach: Henrik Adolfsson

References

External links

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Official site
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