Husqvarna IF is a

sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

Huskvarna Huskvarna (; formerly spelled ''Husqvarna'') constitutes the eastern part of Jönköping, a city in the Sweden, Swedish province of Småland, and has a population of about 24,000. The distance to central Jönköping is about 5 km. The name ...

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. It was founded on 22 September 1904. It supported clubs in various sports, including

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

, and

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

. The ice hockey section merged with

Vätterstads IK Vätterstads IK is a former Swedish ice hockey club from Jönköping. The club was formed in mid 1967 as a merger of IK Stefa and Vättersnäs IF. The club played its home games in Rosenlundshallen, which later was HV71's arena for a period. The ...

in 1971 to form Huskvarna/Vätterstads IF, though the club was soon thereafter renamed to

HV71 HV71 (), often referred to as just HV, is a Swedish professional ice hockey club based in Jönköping, playing in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), the first tier of Swedish ice hockey. The team played in the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League s ...

. In late 2009, after years of inactivity, the activity was resumed again.

Sports

Bandy

The bandy section of the club ran until 1947. The club won the Småland District Championship in 1931 and 1933.

Football

The club's football team played their first season in the Swedish second division during the 1933/1934 season, and their final in 1964. In 1987, the men's association football team merged with

Huskvarna Södra IS Huskvarna Södra IS was established in 1930 and is a sports club in Huskvarna, Sweden. The club won the Swedish women's table tennis team championship in 1970 and 1972. The association football team played their home games at Hjärttorpsvallen nea ...

, establishing

Husqvarna FF Husqvarna FF is a football club in Huskvarna, Sweden. The team is sponsored by the Husqvarna AB. History Husqvarna FF was founded on 3 February 1987 following the merger of the men's association football sections of Husqvarna IF and Huskvarna S ...

Ice hockey

The club started ice hockey activities in 1947. It was relegated from the Swedish second division during the 1969–1970 season.

References

External links

Official website
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