IFK Halmstad, ''Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, Halmstad'', is a sports club in

Halmstad Halmstad () is a port, university, industrial and recreational urban areas of Sweden, city at the mouth of the Nissan (river), Nissan river, in the provinces of Sweden, province of Halland on the Sweden, Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat ...

, Sweden. The club was founded in 1895 and is now mainly active in

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competitio ...

(track and field). In the first half of the 20th century, the club also had active departments in the sports of

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 ...

(district champions in

Halland Halland () is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap''), on the western coast of Götaland, southern Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Småland, Skåne, Scania and the sea of Kattegat. Until 1645 and the Second Treaty of Br ...

in 1947)Eric Sköld (ed.): Boken om bandy, Uppsala: Bygd och Folk Förlag (1948), pp. 334f (in Swedish) and

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Halmstad, IFK Athletics clubs in Sweden Defunct bandy clubs in Sweden Defunct football clubs in Sweden

Association football clubs established in 1895 Bandy clubs established in 1895 1895 establishments in Sweden Sport in Halmstad Multi-sport clubs in Sweden Sports clubs and teams in Halland County 19th-century establishments in Halland County