IFK Uppsala is a Swedish

sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

located 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 ...

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, with several departments: *

IFK Uppsala Fotboll IFK Uppsala is a Swedish football club, and the football section (the other one is bandy) of IFK Uppsala, located in Uppsala. The club, formed 1895, was one of the leading Swedish clubs in the early 20th century. They played two seasons in the h ...

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 ...

department * IFK Uppsala Bandy,

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 ...

department The club was established in 1895. On 30 January 1921, the ice hockey team was involved in the first ice hockey game on Swedish soil, defeating German

Berliner SC Berliner Sport-Club, commonly known as Berliner SC, is a German association football club based in Berlin. The team is part of a sports club which also has departments for badminton, hockey, and rugby. History ''Berliner SC'' was created ou ...

, 4-1, in front of 2 022 spectators at the

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References

External links

IFK Uppsala Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Uppsala, IFK Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Multi-sport clubs in Sweden Sports clubs and teams established in 1895 1895 establishments in Sweden Sports clubs and teams in Uppsala 19th-century establishments in Uppsala County