Ungdoms-och Idrottsföreningen Matteuspojkarna, commonly known as Matteuspojkarna () or MP, is a sports club in

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

, Sweden.

History

Matteuspojkarna was founded on 15 May 1915. The founder, V. Wiklund, was a pastor and first gathered his confirmands for social fostering; the club took up sports such as football and bandy in its first year. The football team took part in Stockholmsserien Klass 4 from 1918, and played in the system until 1922. The ice hockey team took part in the Elitserien, then the top level Swedish league, from 1932 to 1935. They then played in its successor league, the

Svenska Serien Svenska Serien (literally, "The Swedish Series", also Svenska Fotbollserien, "The Swedish Football Series") was the highest league in Swedish football and was played since 1910–1917, 1920–1921, and 1922–1924. It was then replace ...

in the 1936–37 and 1942–43 seasons. From 1946 to 1950, and in 1951–52 and 1956–57, Matteuspojkarna played in the top-level

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. From 1929 to 1950, the club regularly competed in the single-elimination Swedish Championship. They finished as runner-up in

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, losing to

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3–2 in overtime. In the end of the 1930s, the club took up orienteering and in 1941, it took up cross-country skiing on its programme.

In athletics, Åke Ödmark was the first Swedish high jumper to clear 2.00 metres. He was the 1939 and 1940 Swedish champion in high jump. Rune Larsson won eight national individual titles in

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and

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from 1946 to 1951. The handball department competed in the Swedish men's team handball top division during the 1968–69 season. It currently plays in Division 3.

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