Visby AIK is a Swedish

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club located in

Visby Visby () is an urban areas in Sweden, urban area in Sweden and the seat of Gotland Municipality in Gotland County on the island of Gotland with 24,330 inhabitants . Visby is also the episcopal see for the Diocese of Visby. The Hanseatic League, ...

on the island of

Gotland Gotland (; ; ''Gutland'' in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a Provinces of Sweden, province/Counties of Sweden, county (Swedish län), Municipalities of Sweden, municipality, a ...

Background

Visby AIK currently plays in

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Gotland, sometimes called "Gotlandsfyran", which is the sixth 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 the

Gutavallen Gutavallen is an outdoor stadium, sport stadium located in Visby, Sweden. It was opened on 27 May 1927 and is used for association football, football as well as athletics (sport), athletics, but occasionally the arena is also used for concerts. ...

arena in Visby. The club is affiliated to

Gotlands Fotbollförbund The Gotlands Fotbollförbund ''(Gotland Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football on the island of Gotland. Background Gotlands Fotbollförbund, com ...

. Visby AIK have competed in the

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on 25 occasions and have played 37 matches in the competition. The club were close to earning promotion to the fifth tier, Division 3, and led the Gotland section for a good part of the 2011 season but fell short of the section title by a single

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despite winning their last game of the season 1–0.

Season to season

Footnotes

External links

Visby AIK
nbsp;– Official website
Visby AIK
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Visby AIK on Facebook
Football clubs in Gotland County Association football clubs established in 1929 1929 establishments in Sweden Sport in Visby 20th-century establishments in Gotland County {{Sweden-footyclub-stub