Falu FK is a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

football club located in

Falun Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with just over 100,000 inhabitan ...

Dalarna County Dalarna County ( sv, Dalarnas län) is a county or '' län'' in central Sweden (Svealand). It borders on the counties of Uppsala, Jämtland, Gävleborg, Västmanland, Örebro and Värmland. It also borders on the Norwegian counties of Hedmar ...

Background

Falu FK was founded on 27 February 2006 following a joint initiative of the football sections of

Falu BS Falu Bandysällskap, ''Falu BS'', is a bandy club from Falun in Sweden. Falu BS was founded as ''Falu Bollsällskap'' on 10 December 1935, by merging Falu BK, Holmens IF, Falu SK and IFK Falun. All these clubs were playing bandy. In 1936 ...

, Slätta SK und Korsnäs IF FK clubs. The men's teams of the top two clubs merged in September of that year while Korsnäs IF FK retained its independence. Falu BS and Slätta SK now only operate in football youth development. The newly formed club took the place of Falu BS in the third-tier Division 1 Norra. Since their foundation Falu FK has participated in the middle divisions of the Swedish football league system. The club currently plays in Division 2 Norra Svealand which is the fourth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the

Kopparvallen Kopparvallen is a multi-use stadium in Åtvidaberg, Sweden. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Åtvidabergs FF. The stadium holds 8,000 people and was built in 1907. Famous football players who have played in the ...

in Falun. Falu FK are affiliated to

Dalarnas Fotbollförbund The Dalarnas Fotbollförbund ''(Dalarna Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in the historical province of Dalarna. Background Dalarnas Fotbol ...

Current squad

Staff

* Head coach: Tomas Johansson * Assistant coach: Peter Lundin * Team-Manager: Patrik Andersson * Fitness coach: Henrik Adolfsson

References

External links

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Official site
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