Junsele IF is a
Swedish football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club located in
Junsele
Junsele () is a locality situated in Sollefteå Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden with 895 inhabitants in 2010.
The village is known for its zoo, where you can see for instance white tigers. There is a small tourist bureau, health centre ...
in
Sollefteå Municipality
Sollefteå Municipality () is a Swedish municipality in Västernorrland County. Its seat is located in Sollefteå.
The former ''City of Sollefteå'' (instituted in 1917) was amalgamated with the surrounding entities in 1974 to form the present m ...
,
Västernorrland County
Västernorrland County () is a county ('' län'') in the north of Sweden. It is bordered by the counties of Gävleborg, Jämtland, Västerbotten and the Gulf of Bothnia.
The name ''Västernorrland'' means "Western Norrland", as it was in the ...
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Background
Junsele Idrottsförening is a sports club from Junsele that was founded in 1908. The club specialises in the sports of football, cross country skiing, alpine skiing, tennis, fitness and ice hockey.
Since their foundation Junsele IF has participated mainly in the middle and lower divisions of the
Swedish football league system
The Swedish football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in Sweden
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. In the 2010 season the club finished top of Division 3 Mellersta Norrland, which is the fifth tier of Swedish football, and have won promotion to Division 2 for the first time. They play their home matches at the Mons IP in Junsele.
Junsele IF are affiliated to the
Ångermanlands Fotbollförbund
The Ångermanlands Fotbollförbund ''(Ångermanland Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in the historic province of Ångermanland.
It was establis ...
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Season to season
Attendances
In recent seasons Junsele IF have had the following average attendances:
The attendance record for Junsele IF was around 1,400 spectators for the match against
Ã…dalslidens SK in 1961 (Division 4 Ã…ngermanland).
Footnotes
External links
Junsele IFnbsp;– Official website
Football clubs in Västernorrland County
Association football clubs established in 1908
1908 establishments in Sweden
Sports clubs and teams in Västernorrland County
Sollefteå Municipality
20th-century establishments in Västernorrland County
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