FC Linköping City is a Swedish professional

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based in

Linköping Linköping () is a city in southern Sweden, with around 105,000 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Church ...

, affiliated with the

Östergötlands Fotbollförbund The Östergötlands Fotbollförbund ''(Östergötland Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in Östergötland County. Background Östergötlands ...

. They currently play in

Swedish Football Division 1 Ettan Fotboll, or simply Ettan ( en, the one), which also is its common name in everyday speech, is the third level in the Swedish football league system and consists of 32 Sweden, Swedish football (soccer), football teams. It was formerly simpl ...

after winning

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with 22 points ahead of second placed team their first season in

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, and finishing in ninth place in 2014 Swedish Football Division 2. The club was founded around

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s Day of 2013, replacing

FK Linköping FK Linköping was a Swedish football club located in Linköping, which replaced Linköpings FF from the 2009 season. In 2013 the club was replaced by FC Linköping City FC Linköping City is a Swedish professional football club based in Link� ...

in the

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for the 2013 season.

Background

The club was founded in a merger between FK Linköping and FC Syrianska, with the goal to get football in

to a higher level. When FC Linköping City was created, it took the place of FK Linköping in the Swedish football league system. The club started playing in Division 3 Nordöstra Götaland, which is the fifth tier of Swedish football. They started playing their home matches at

Folkungavallen Folkungavallen is a football stadium in Linköping, Sweden and the home stadium for the football teams Linköpings FC Linköpings Fotboll Club is an association football club from Linköping, Sweden. The club was established in 2003 when Kenty ...

in Linköping, before moving to the new

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in autumn 2013. FC Linköping City are affiliated with the Östergötlands Fotbollförbund.

Rivalries

Several clubs play in Linköping, however, the biggest rivalry to FC Linköping City is AFK Linköping, a club that was founded in the winter between the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The difference in team make-up is that FC Linköping City built their team with players from higher leagues while AFK Linköping used more local talent. The first game played between these rivals was played away on 19 June 2013; a game where FC Linköping City won 2–0. The return game in the league was played at home on 4 August 2013 in the new arena

and FC Linköping City won 2–0.

Seasons

2013

In 2013, FC Linköping City immediately put up the goal to win Division 3 and get promoted to Division 2. The start of the season started out promising, and the club had seven consecutive wins before drawing 3–3 away against

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. This seven game winning streak is even more remarkable because only two out of seven games were at home. When Division 3 reached its summer break, the club had a five-point lead with a 9 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss record, and nine games left at home and only two games left away. The second part of the season was even more impressing when they won all remaining eleven matches and saw the lead grow to the final 22 points ahead of second placed team, IF Haga. This meant promotion to Division 2 (tier 4 of Swedish football) and a good start for the newly built club.

2014

Before the season started, FC Linköping City announced a change of head coach. The new coach,

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, comes from Öster IF in

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(tier 1 in Swedish football), and has merits from football on the highest level in Sweden.

Season summary

Current squad

References

External links

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