Kristianstad FC is a Swedish

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club located in

Kristianstad Kristianstad ( , ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, city and the seat of Kristianstad Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 41,198 inhabitants in 2023. Since the 1990s, the city has gone from being a garrison town to a developed commercial city, ...

. The club was formed in 2015 through a merger between Kristianstads FF and Kristianstad BoIS. The club is currently playing in Division 2, the fourth tier of Swedish football.

History

IFK Kristianstad Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Kristianstad (), or IFK Kristianstad, is a Swedish professional handball club based in Kristianstad. They play in Handbollsligan, the top level of Swedish men's handball. The club was founded in 1899 as a multi-spo ...

The football section of IFK Kristianstad was founded in 1899 and played several seasons in the 2nd highest football division of Sweden. Kristianstads IS Kristianstads Idrottssällskap (Kristianstad Sports Association) was founded in 1929 and refounded in 1995. Vilans BoIF Vilans Boll- och Idrottsförening (Vilans Football and Sports Association) was a football club from Vilan, a city district of

. The club was founded on 27 June 1932 and was the successor to the predecessor club Vilans IF, which was founded in 1924 and dissolved in 1931. Kristianstads BI Kristiandstads Boll- och idrottssällskap (Kristiandstads Football and Sports Association) was founded in 1933. In the year 1970 they finished second Place in the Division III, above Vilans BoIF and IFK Kristianstad and were therefore the best football club in

in that year. Kristianstads FF Kristianstads FF was founded in 1990, when the football section of

merged with Vilans BoIF. The club then began life in Division 3 Sydöstra Götaland, which was the fourth tier of Swedish football. In the first few seasons Kristianstads FF finished in mid-table positions but then won promotion at the end of the 1993 season after finishing top of the Division 3 Sydöstra Götaland. The club established themselves in Division 2 Södra Götaland over the next four seasons before winning the division in 1998. There followed one season in Division 1 Södra in 1999 where the club finished in ninth position and were most unfortunate to be relegated at the end of the campaign as a result of league re-structuring. The club's confidence dipped in Division 2 Södra Götaland and a further relegation followed at the end of the 2001 season. However the club were promoted from Division 3 Sydöstra Götaland in 2002 after finishing in second place. Over the rest of the decade the club has played in Division 1 Södra and Division 2 Södra Götaland where they currently reside. ''Kristianstads FF Women'' The women team of Kristianstads FF played in 1992 and 1994 in the

Division 1 Södra Ettan Fotboll, or simply Ettan (), which also is its common name in everyday speech, is the third level in the Swedish football league system and consists of 32 Swedish football teams. It was formerly simply known as ''Division 1''. Division 1 ...

, the second highest level of Swedish Womens Football. On 5 November 1998, the team merged with the women team of Wä IF to form Kristianstad/Wä DFF, that was renamed in 2006 to Kristianstads DFF. Kristianstads DFF plays in the

Damallsvenskan The (; ), known as OBOS for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is one of the best women's leagues in the world, and was founded in 1988. The division consists of a league of 14 teams. From 2013, t ...

, the highest division of

Women's football in Sweden Sweden is one of the traditional powers of women's football. History The earliest recorded occurrence of women's football in Sweden was in 1919. National competition Damallsvenskan is the national competition for women footballers in Sweden, ...

. Kristianstad BoIS Kristianstads Boll- och Idrottssällskap (Kristianstad Football and Sports Association) was founded on 20 January 2008 through a fusion of Kristianstads BI and Kristianstads IS. They retained the club name of Kristianstads BI, but changed their shorter name to Kristianstad BoIS to differentiate the funsioned club to the older club. Kristianstad FC Kristianstad FC was founded on 10 December 2015 through a merger of Kristianstad BoIS and Kristianstads FF. The club is affiliated to the

Skånes Fotbollförbund The Skånes Fotbollförbund ''(Scania Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in the non-administrative province of Scania. Background Skånes ...

Players

First-team squad

Youth players with first-team experience

Season to season

Managers

* Joakim Persson (Nov 4, 2015 – Sep 22, 2017) *

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(Sep 22, 2017 – Jan 15, 2018) *

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(Jan 15, 2018 – May 22, 2018) * Besnik Llazani (May 22, 2018 – May 2, 2019) * Joacim Velander (May 2, 2019 – October 17, 2019) * Pierre Ferreira (October 17, 2019 – November 27, 2019) * Jack Majgaard Jensen (November 27, 2019 – December 13, 2019) * Anders Swahn (January 9, 2020 – November 18, 2020) * Mladen Blagojevic (November 18, 2020 – November 10, 2024)

References

External links

Official site

SvFF page
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