Akropolis IF is a Swedish
football
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club formed by
Greek
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immigrants in 1968 in
Spånga
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Background
Spånga was an independent municipality until January 1, 1949 when most of it was merged with the City of Stockholm, with smaller por ...
.
The club is named after the
Acropolis of Athens
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, and the
Parthenon
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is depicted on its badge.
Background
Akropolis IF is a sports club which was founded in Stockholm in the spring of 1968. Basketball started in the autumn 1968 followed by football in the spring of 1969. Youth activities commenced in 1975.
The club formerly had close affiliations, since terminated, with other Stockholm football clubs such as
AIK
AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sports club''), is a Swedish football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The ...
and
BP .
In 1987, Akropolis advanced for the first time to Division 3. In 2006, the club made it to the second division, where they have stayed since. In 2012, Akropolis was relegated to Division 2, where they stayed until 2013 when they were once again promoted.
In 2014, Akropolis was promoted from Division 2 to Division 1 again. As newcomers in Division 1, Akropolis secured qualifiers to Superettan in their second last game against IFK Luleå.
Season to season
Attendances
In recent seasons Akropolis IF have had the following average attendances:
Current squad
Staff
Footnotes
External links
Akropolis IF
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Association football clubs established in 1968
Football clubs in Stockholm
1968 establishments in Sweden
Diaspora football clubs in Sweden