Sandvikens IF is a Swedish

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club located in

Sandviken Sandviken is a locality and the seat of Sandviken Municipality in Gävleborg County, Sweden with 26,438 inhabitants in 2023. It is situated about 25 km west of Gävle and lies approximately 190 km north of Stockholm. The rail journey t ...

. The club, formed 6 June 1918, has played 21 seasons in the highest Swedish league, but is in the second highest Swedish league,

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. Sandvikens IF are affiliated to the

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. As Sandviken is an industrial community, dominated by the steel and metal

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, the team has been much influenced by this. The name of the home ground, Jernvallen, would translate approximately as The Iron Ground, while the nicknames ''Järngänget'' and ''Stålmännen'' are self-explaining in Swedish ("The Iron gang" and "The Men of Steel"). ''Stålmännen'' has a double meaning, as it also is the plural form of ''Stålmannen'', the Swedish name for

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Season to season

Current squad

Achievements

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: ** Best placement (3rd): 1935–36 – and gained thereby the ''Little Silver'' medals.

External links

Sandvikens IF
nbsp;– official site

Footnotes

{{allsvenskan Allsvenskan clubs Football clubs in Gävleborg County Association football clubs established in 1918 1918 establishments in Sweden Sport in Sandviken 20th-century establishments in Gävleborg County