A chart showing the progress of IFK Norrköping through theswedish football league system. The different shades of gray represent league divisions.Nya ParkenIFK Norrköping supporter group Peking Fanz.
Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known asIFK Norrköping or simplyNorrköping, is a Swedish professionalfootball club based inNorrköping. The club is affiliated toÖstergötlands Fotbollförbund and play their home games atPlatinumCars Arena.[1] The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are white and blue. Formed on 29 May 1897, the club have won thirteennational championship titles and sixnational cup titles.
The club plays in the highest Swedish tier, Allsvenskan, which they first won in1943.[2] IFK Norrköping were most successful during the 1940s, when they won five Swedish championships and two Svenska Cupen titles under the Hungarian coachLajos Czeizler and with players likeGunnar Nordahl andNils Liedholm.
IFK Norrköping won the first division 11 times in 20 years, the last in 1963. It won for its 12th time in 1989.
On 31 October 2015, IFK Norrköping won its 13th championship title after defeating the defending championsMalmö FF with 2–0 away inSwedbank Stadion in Malmö in the last round of2015 Allsvenskan.[3] On 8 November IFK Norrköping wonsupercupen against Swedish cup winners IFK Göteborg. The result was 3–0.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
IFK Norrköping also maintains departments forwomen's football, set up in 2009,orienteering,bowling andbandy. The bandy team played in Sweden's highest division in 1937.
Part of the club was also anice 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 rivalsIK Sleipner were joined in 1967 to form IF IFK/IKS, known from 1973 forward asIK Vita Hästen ("Ice Hockey Club White Horse") which evolved into today'sHC Vita Hästen.
^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 ofSvenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier leagueAllsvenskan was played. In 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 aplay-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 ofMästerskapsserien, an additional league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan.[7]
^"Svenska mästare 1896–1925, 1931–" [Swedish champions 1896–1925, 1931–].svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association.Archived from the original on 2 December 2009. Retrieved22 August 2012.