Tranås AIF (sometimes abbreviated "TAIF") is a
Swedish sports club active in a number of sports including
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...
. The ice hockey club, Tranås AIF Ishockeyförening, better known as Tranås AIF Hockey (or Tranås AIF IF), played several season in Sweden's second-highest league,
Allsvenskan
Allsvenskan (; ), also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan (, ) is a professional association football league in Sweden and the highest level of the Swedish football league system.
Founded in 1924, it operates on a system of promotion and relegatio ...
, but since being relegated in 2003 has played in
Division 1, the third tier of
ice hockey in Sweden.
The club has also had a
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 ...
section and used to play in the top-tier Swedish bandy league.
External links
Hockey club official websiteHockey team profile on Eliteprospects.com
Ice hockey clubs established in 1905
Bandy clubs established in 1905
Defunct bandy clubs in Sweden
1905 establishments in Sweden
Ice hockey teams in Jönköping County
Tranås Municipality
20th-century establishments in Jönköping County
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