Kareby IS, is a

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Kareby Kareby is a locality situated in Kungälv Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norw ...

Kungälv Municipality Kungälv Municipality () is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Kungälv. It is the 50th largest municipality in Sweden by population size, which exceeded 50 000 during May 2024. The pr ...

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. The team colours are red, blue and white. The club was founded on 20 April 1945. It is now playing

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 ...

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and

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. The ice practices and matches in bandy are done at

Skarpe Nord Skarpe Nord is an ice skating rink in Kungälv. It is the home of IFK Kungälv, Kareby IS Kareby IS, is a sports club in Kareby, Kungälv Municipality, Sweden. The team colours are red, blue and white. The club was founded on 20 April 1945. It ...

Kungälv Kungälv () is a cities of Sweden, city and the seat of Kungälv Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It is also a part of Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area. It had 22,768 inhabitants in 2010. In 2021, the main Kungälv - Ytterby - ...

. The club won the Swedish women's bandy national championship in 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2017 and has also been the runner-up a couple of times. The women's bandy team won the Swedish national championship again in 2015 by winning the final game, 3–1, against AIK. Even in 2017, the women's team won the Swedish national bandy championship, defeating Västerås SK, 4–1, in the final-game. In September 2018, it was announced the club's women's bandy team would withdraw from the Swedish top division for the 2018–2019 season.

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