IFK Norrköping

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IFK Norrköping
File:IFK Norrköping Logo.jpg
Full name Idrottsföreningen
Kamraterna Norrköping
Nickname(s) Peking (Beijing)
Snoka
Kamraterna (The comrades)
VitaBlå (WhiteBlue)
Founded 29 May 1897; 126 years ago (1897-05-29)
Ground Nya Parken, Norrköping
Ground Capacity 17,234
Chairman Peter Hunt
Manager Jan Andersson
League Allsvenskan
2015 Allsvenskan, 1st
Website Club home page
Current season
File:IFK Norrköping League Performance.png
A chart showing the progress of IFK Norrköping through the swedish football league system. The different shades of gray represent league divisions.
File:Peking Fanz.jpg
IFK Norrköping supporter group Peking Fanz.

Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, also known simply as IFK Norrköping, is a Swedish professional football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Nya Parken.[1] The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are blue and white. Formed on 29 May 1897, the club have won thirteen national championship titles and six national cup titles.

The club is currently playing in Allsvenskan, where the season lasts from April to October. The club first won Allsvenskan in 1943.[2] IFK Norrköping were most successful during the 1940s, when they won five Swedish championships and two Svenska Cupen titles under the Hungarian coach Lajos Czeizler and with the players like Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm.

IFK Norrköping are currently the defending champions after winning the 2015 Allsvenskan, which also gave them a spot in the second qualification round of 2016–17 UEFA Champions League.

History

IFK Norrköping dominated Swedish football in the post war era and won the first division 11 times in 20 glorious years culminating in the league triumph of 1963. It took the club another 26 years before adding championship title number 12 to the trophy cabinet.

On 31 October 2015, IFK Norrköping won their 13th championship title after defeating the defending champions Malmö FF with 2–0 away in Swedbank Stadion in Malmö in the last round of 2015 Allsvenskan. This was the second time in a row they had to wait 26 years between titles.[3] On 8 November IFK Norrköping won supercupen against Swedish cup winners IFK Göteborg. The result was 3–0 after a fantastic performance from the reigning Swedish champions.

Rivalries

The club had a fierce rivalry with the other local club, IK Sleipner, something that has been forgotten since Sleipner's fall from the higher divisions. The main rival today is mainly fellow Östergötland club Åtvidabergs FF.

Players

First-team squad

As of 8 January 2016 [4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Estonia GK Andreas Vaikla
4 Sweden DF Andreas Johansson (captain)
5 Sweden FW Christoffer Nyman
6 Sweden DF Linus Wahlqvist
7 Sweden MF Alexander Fransson
9 Iceland MF Arnór Ingvi Traustason
10 Sweden FW Emir Kujović
11 Sweden DF Christopher Telo
13 Sweden DF Erik Lindell
14 Sweden MF Nicklas Bärkroth
15 Sweden DF Marcus Falk-Olander
16 Sweden FW Joel Enarsson
No. Position Player
17 Sierra Leone FW Alhaji Kamara
18 Sweden FW Tidjani Diawara
20 Finland MF Daniel Sjölund (vice captain)
21 Sweden DF Andreas Hadenius
24 Sweden MF Gentrit Citaku
25 Sweden DF Filip Dagerstål
27 Sweden MF Tesfaldet Tekie
28 Sweden DF Henrik Castegren
30 Croatia DF Nikola Tkalčić
91 Republic of Macedonia GK David Mitov Nilsson
Iceland DF Jón Guðni Fjóluson

For season transfers, see transfers winter 2015–16.

Retired numbers

Winners of Guldbollen

Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson (right) playing in a 1964 game against Malmö FF.

League top scorers

Allsvenskan

Superettan (Division II 1924/1925–1986 and Division I 1987–1999)

Achievements

File:Norrköping, de doelman gebruikt vliegenvangerslijm om zijn effectiviteit te verbeteren (1963).jpg
1963: Bengt Nyholm, the keeper of IFK Norrköping, tries to improve his effectiveness by applying glue from flypaper to his hands
  • Swedish Champions[upper-alpha 1]
    • Winners (13): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1989, 2015

League

  • Allsvenskan:
    • Winners (13): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1992, 2015
    • Runners-up (9): 1952–53, 1957–58, 1959, 1961, 1966, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993
  • Superettan:
    • Winners (1): 2007
    • Runners-up (1): 2010
  • Mästerskapsserien:
    • Runners-up (2): 1991, 1992

Cups

IFK Norrköping in Europe

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1956–57 European Cup 1R Italy AC Fiorentina 0–1 1–1 1–2
1957–58 European Cup 1R Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade 2–2 1–2 3–4
1962–63 European Cup PR Albania Partizani Tirana 2–0 1–1 3–1
1R Portugal S.L. Benfica 1–1 1–5 2–6
1963–64 European Cup PR Belgium Standard Liége 2–0 0–1 2–1
1R Italy AC Milan 1–1 2–5 3–6
1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Northern Ireland Crusaders F.C. 4–1 2–2 6–3
2R Norway FC Lyn 3–2 0–2 3–4
1969–70 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Malta Sliema Wanderers F.C. 5–1 0–1 5–2
1R Germany Schalke 04 0–0 0–1 0–1
1972–73 UEFA Cup 1R Romania Flamura Roşie Arad 2–0 2–1 4–1
2R Italy FC Internazionale 0–2 2–2 2–4
1978–79 UEFA Cup 1R Scotland Hibernian 0–0 2–3 2–3
1982–83 UEFA Cup 1R England Southampton 0–0 2–2 2–2(a)
2R Italy A.S. Roma 1–0 0–1(2–4 p) 1–1
1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Italy UC Sampdoria 2–1 0–2 2–3
1990–91 UEFA Cup 1R Germany 1. FC Köln 0–0 1–3 1–3
1991–92 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Luxembourg Jeunesse Esch 4–0 2–1 6–1
2R France AS Monaco 1–2 0–1 1–3
1992–93 UEFA Cup 1R Italy Torino FC 1–0 0–3 1–3
1993–94 UEFA Cup 1R Belgium KV Mechelen 0–1 1–1(aet) 1–2
1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup QR Czech Republic FK Viktoria Žižkov 3–3 0–1 3–4
2000–01 UEFA Cup QR Faroe Islands GÍ Gøta 2–1 2–0 4–2
1R Czech Republic FC Slovan Liberec 2–2 1–2 2–4
2016–17 UEFA Champions League 2Q

Records

Sweden Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson, 321 games (1949–65)
Sweden Henry "Putte" Källgren, 126 goals (1951–60)
  • Most spectators:
32 234 against Malmö FF, 7 June 1956
11–1 against Djurgårdens IF, 14 October 1945.
0 – 11 against Örgryte IS, 6 April 1928 and Helsingborgs IF, 22 September 1929
  • Most expensive player:
Forward Nigeria Kevin Amuneke, from Bulgaria CSKA Sofia for approximately 3 million SEK, 2007.
  • Most expensive sale:
Midfielder/Forward Sweden Astrit Ajdarević, to Belgium Standard Liège for approximately 15,9 million SEK, 2012.

Managers

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Other sections

IFK Norrköping also maintains departments for women's football, set up in 2009, orienteering, bowling and the in Sweden and a few other Nordic countries very popular sport of bandy. The bandy team played in Sweden's highest division in 1937.

Part of the club was also an ice hockey team which played in the seasons 1950/51 and 1955/56 in the highest Swedish division. The ice hockey teams of IFK and local rivals IK Sleipner were joined in 1967 to form IF IFK/IKS, known form 1973 forward as IK Vita Hästen ("Ice Hockey Club White Horse") which evolved into today's HC Vita Hästen.

Footnotes

  1. The title of "Swedish Champions" has been awarded to the winner of four different competitions over the years. Between 1896 and 1925 the title was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played. In 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 a play-off in cup format was held at the end of the league season to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the title was decided by the winner of Mästerskapsserien, an additional league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan.[5]

References

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