IFK Uppsala Bandy is the bandy department of the IFK Uppsala sports club. The club was founded in 1895 and based in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Located north of the c ...

, Sweden. The club played bandy,

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and

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already from the start. IFK was one of the major clubs in all of these sports in the first half of the 20th century. In the 1940s it was also successful in handball.

Bandy

IFK has won 12 Swedish bandy championships, but the last time was in 1933 when

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was beaten in the final 11-1. In the first year of bandy league system in Sweden, 1930–31, IFK Uppsala entered in

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together with

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, IFK Strängnäs,

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, Linköpings AIK, Nässjö IF, and

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and finished 8th. The bandy team was disbanded in 1990, but the club took up the sport again for the 2006–07 season.

Honours

Domestic

* Swedish Champions: ** Winners (12): 1907, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1933 ** Runners-up (2): 1921, 1934

References

External links

IFK Uppsala – official homepage

IFK Uppsala bandy – additional homepage for the bandy section
Bandy clubs in Sweden Bandy clubs established in 1895 Bandy 1895 establishments in Sweden {{bandy-team-stub