FC Rosengård is a Swedish professional

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located in the area

Rosengård Rosengård (literally "Rose Manor") was a city district ( sv, stadsdel) in the center of Malmö Municipality, Sweden. On 1 July 2013, it was merged with Husie, forming Öster. In 2012, Rosengård had a population of 23,563 of the municipality' ...

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 ...

. The club was founded on 4 September 1917 as Malmö Boll & Idrottsförening but has since been merged once and renamed twice. The club has been the starting ground for some Swedish football players including

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and

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History

The club was founded on 4 September 1917 as Malmö Boll & Idrottsförening, or MBI in short. In the early years, the club also played

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, winning the Scania district championship in this sport in 1930. One of the biggest moments in the history of the club was when they participated in the playoff to

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, the top tier of Swedish football in 1938 against

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but lost. In 1973, the club moved to its present location in the suburb of

. In 2001, the club merged with Turk Anadolu FF to create Malmö Anadolu BI, MABI in short. In 2008, the club was renamed to FC Rosengård. The club is affiliated to 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 Fo ...

Season to season

Attendances

In the following seasons FC Rosengård have had the following average attendances:

Current squad

''As of 3 April 2017''

Technical staff

as of 3 April 2017

Club records

* Most appearances: 520 — Mats Olsson

Footnotes

External links

Official site
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