Redbergslids IK was a

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located in

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that played in the

1930–31 Allsvenskan Allsvenskan 1930–31, part of the 1930–31 Swedish football season, was the seventh Allsvenskan season played. The first match was played 3 August 1930 and the last match was played 7 June 1931. GAIS won the league ahead of runners-up ...

, the Swedish top-tier league.

History

The football team was a part of the sports club

Redbergslids IK Redbergslids IK (RIK), is a professional handball team from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1916. Redbergslid is the most successful club in Sweden, having won 20 Swedish Championship titles. Home games are played in Prioritet Serneke Arena. Red ...

founded in 1916. In the 1929–30 season, they reached

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by winning Division 2 Södra 11 points ahead of

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. The following season, 1930–31, they played in the

but were relegated. In the top division of Sweden the club attracted an average crowd of 8,898. They were also punished for paying their players, which was against the rules at that time, when they gifted their players watches, by being demoted to the bottom of the

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, Göteborgsserien IV. A result of this, Redbergslid lost their players to local teams

IFK Göteborg Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or Blåvitt, is a Swedish professional Football team, football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it ...

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and

Örgryte Örgryte is one of the 21 ''stadsdelsnämndsområden'' (a kind of district often translated as borough) of Gothenburg Municipality, Sweden. It is a largely upper middle class residential area just to the east of the city centre. History The or ...

. For instance, Swedish internationals

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and

Sven Rydell Sven Åke Albert Rydell (14 January 1905 – 4 April 1975) was a Swedish footballer who played as a forward. He represented Holmens IS, Örgryte IS, and Redbergslids IK during a club career that spanned between 1920 and 1934. A full internatio ...

moved to Örgryte. In the 1960s, the club was back in Division 2 Södra and remained there a couple of seasons. Redbergslid played their last season in 2001, when they resided in the Swedish eighth-tier Division 7. The team used black shirts and white shorts.

References

1916 establishments in Sweden 21st-century disestablishments in Västra Götaland County 2001 disestablishments in Sweden 1910s establishments in Gothenburg and Bohus County {{Sweden-footyclub-stub