Stenungsunds IF is a Swedish

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club located in

Stenungsund Stenungsund () is a locality and the seat of Stenungsund Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 9,987 inhabitants in 2010. Overview Stenungsund was once only an idyllic bathing and vacation location on the Swedish west coast. A landm ...

Background

Stenungsunds IF currently plays in Division 3 Mellersta Götaland which is the fifth tier of

Swedish football Association football is the most popular sport in Sweden, with over 240,000 licensed players (approximately 56,000 women and 184,000 men) with another 240,000 youth players. There are around 3,200 active clubs fielding over 8,500 teams, whic ...

. They play their home matches at SIF-gården, currently known as Olssons Trävaror Arena for sponsorship reasons, in Stenungsund. They previously played at

Nösnäsvallen Nösnäsvallen is a soccer and track and field athletics stadium in Stenungsund, Sweden. It is the home ground of Stenungsunds IF. The Swedish national team practiced at Nösnäsvallen before both the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the Euro 2008. Te ...

. The club is affiliated to

Bohusläns Fotbollförbund The Bohusläns Fotbollförbund ''(Bohuslän Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in the historical province of Bohuslän. Background Bohusläns ...

. Stenungsunds IF have competed in the

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on 25 occasions and have played 67 matches in the competition. Their latest occasion was in

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and their best performance was in 1997–98 were they managed to get to the quarter-finals before getting knocked out by

Helsingborgs IF Helsingborgs Idrottsförening, commonly referred to as Helsingborgs IF, Helsingborg or (especially locally) HIF (), is a Swedish professional football club located in Helsingborg. They play in the Swedish second tier, Superettan, following releg ...

. The club played in the Swedish second division during the second half of the 1990s. The 1998 season saw the club failing to reach the Allsvenskan qualification games, losing 1–2 on home soil against

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in Division 1 Södra.

Season-to-season

References

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External links

Stenungsunds IF
nbsp;– Official website
Stenungsunds IF
nbsp;– Official Facebook page Football clubs in Västra Götaland County Association football clubs established in 1927 1927 establishments in Sweden Stenungsund 1920s establishments in Gothenburg and Bohus County