BK Olympic is a

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club located in

Lindängen Lindängen is a neighbourhood in Söder in Malmö, Sweden. It has 6,874 inhabitants. In its 2017 report, Police in Sweden placed the district in the most severe category of urban areas with high crime rates. Demographics Lindängen had 5,958 ...

which is a residential area of

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

Background

The club was founded in 1920 as IF Olympia. The following year the club was expanded and it was decided to make an application for provisional membership of the

Skånes Fotbollförbund The Skånes Fotbollförbund ''(Scania Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in the non-administrative province of Scania. Background Skånes F ...

(Skåne Football Association). The club changed its name to BK Olympia and it was decided that the club colours should be green and white. The club was forced to make a further change in 1924 as there was already a club called Olympia in Stockholm. In order to be granted entry into the

Swedish Football Association The Swedish Football Association ( sv, Svenska Fotbollförbundet, SvFF) is the governing and body of football in Sweden. It organises the football leagues – Allsvenskan for men and Damallsvenskan for women – and the men's and women's nat ...

and Swedish Sports Confederation the club became known as Bollklubben Olympic. Since their foundation BK Olympic has participated mainly in the middle and lower divisions of the

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. Their best performing season so far was in 2022, when they finished sixth in Ettan, the third highest tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Lindängens IP in Malmö. The pitch measures 110 metres by 67 metres. BK Olympic are affiliated to the

Season to season

Footnotes

External links

BK Olympic
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BK Olympic Facebook
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