Vimmerby IF (founded in 1919) is a Swedish

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club located in

Vimmerby Vimmerby () is a city and the seat of Vimmerby Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 10,934 inhabitants in 2010. Overview Stångån is a small river running through the city. Vimmerby had its charter as early as the fourteenth century. The ...

Kalmar County Kalmar County () is a Counties of Sweden, county or ''län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kronoberg County, Kronoberg, Jönköping County, Jönköping, Blekinge County, Blekinge and Östergötland County, Östergötland. To the ...

. VIF won the 2009–10 Swedish Futsal Championship and were Sweden's representative in the 2010–11 UEFA Futsal Cup.

Background

Since their foundation, Vimmerby IF has participated mainly in the middle and lower divisions of the

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. The club is currently playing in Division 2 Södra Svealand which is the fourth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Vimarvallen in Vimmerby. In autumn 2009, the city council made the exciting decision to build an artificial turf training facility in conjunction with current Ceosvallen. The Arena Ceos Project will be the biggest project since the club was formed in 1919. VIF has worked earnestly for decades to bring about a relocation of the main arena and to get proper winter training opportunities. The municipality's commitment is to build and own the facility and to lease it to Vimmerby IF who will manage the operation of both artificial grass and other green spaces in the Ceosvallen. Vimmerby IF are affiliated to the

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Player

Futsal

A great achievement for Vimmerby IF was winning the 2009–10 Swedish Futsal Championship. In the final against

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who had won the previous 4 championships, VIK came back from 5–2 down with 5 minutes remaining to win 6–5 with a dramatic last minute winner. The club were Sweden's representative in the 2010–11 UEFA Futsal Cup but were knocked out in the preliminary round in a group held at

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. The group comprised

Kremlin-Bicêtre United Kremlin-Bicêtre United is a futsal club based in Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. The club was founded in 2002, played in the Championnat de France de Futsal. Honours * 2004: Champion of Ile-de-France series 2 * 2004: Winner's Cup in Val-de-Marne * 2006 ...

(France), CFE/VDL Groep (Holland),

Keflavík ÍF Keflavík ÍF (Keflavík, íþrótta- og ungmennafélag, ) is an Icelandic sports club, from the town of Reykjanesbær. The club has several divisions for different sports: football, basketball, swimming, gymnastics, badminton, shooting, and ta ...

(Iceland) and Vimmerby IF with the winners Kremlin-Bicêtre United progressing into the next round.

Season to season

Attendances

In recent seasons Vimmerby IFs have had the following average attendances:

Footnotes

External links

Vimmerby IF
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