Eskilstuna United DFF is a

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club from

Eskilstuna Eskilstuna () is a city and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden. The city of Eskilstuna had 67,359 inhabitants in 2015, with a total population of 100,092 inhabitants in Eskilstuna municipality (2014). Eskilstuna has ...

, in

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. The club was established in 2002 and was promoted into the Women's Premier Division (

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) for the first time in 2014. The club play their home games at

Tunavallen Tunavallen is a multi-use stadium in Eskilstuna, Sweden. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 7,800 seated spectators. The original stadium was one of the venues for the 1958 FIFA World Cup. It was also the ven ...

in Eskilstuna. The team colours are blue and white. The club is affiliated to the Södermanlands Fotbollförbund.

History

Played in the first season (2013) of the newly created second level

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and won the title. In its first top level season (

2014 Damallsvenskan The 2014 Damallsvenskan, part of the 2014 Swedish football season, was the 27th season of Damallsvenskan since its establishment in 1988. The season started on 13 April 2014 and ended on 19 October 2014. LdB Malmö, which was renamed to FC Roseng ...

) the club finished seventh. In its second top season, they finished as runners-up and qualified to the 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League. Eskilstuna United DFF lost the Swedish Women's Cup final, 0–3, to

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in May 2021.

Current squad

Former players

''For details of current and former players, see :Eskilstuna United DFF players.''

Honours

(Tier 2) **Winners: 2013

Record in UEFA Women's Champions League

''All results (away, home and aggregate) list Eskilstuna United's goal tally first.'' ^a First leg.

Footnotes

External links

Eskilstuna United DFF
– Official website Women's football clubs in Sweden Sport in Eskilstuna 2002 establishments in Sweden Damallsvenskan teams Association football clubs established in 2002 {{Sweden-footyclub-stub