IF Göta is a sports club in

Karlstad Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 65,856 inhabitants in 2020 with 95,167 inhabitants ...

, Sweden, founded in 1904. The club used to have a successful team in

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 ...

, becoming Swedish champions six times, but now is only concentrated on

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. The bandy department was merged with

IF Boltic IF Boltic was a Swedish sports club from the town Karlstad. It existed from 1946 to 2000. In 2000, IF Boltic was merged with IF Göta and formed the new club BS BolticGöta. IF Boltic was for a number of years the most successful bandy team ...

to form

BS BolticGöta BS BolticGöta, or for short "BG", is a bandy club in Karlstad, Sweden. The two major bandy clubs in Karlstad, IF Boltic and IF Göta, was merged in the year 2000 and founded ''Föreningen Bandysällskapet BolticGöta Karlstad'', in a shorter ...

. The club is sometimes unofficially called ''IF Karlstad-Göta'' to avoid confusion with the Stockholm based sports club

IK Göta IK Göta is a Sweden, Swedish sports club, which was very successful in several sports such as track and field, handball, bowling, field hockey, ice hockey, soccer (women only) and bandy during the 20th century. Their most famous and successful sp ...

History

In the first year of bandy league system in Sweden, 1930–31, Göta entered in

Division 1 Södra 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 Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden ...

together with

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is named ...

IFK Strängnäs IFK Strängnäs is a sports club in Strängnäs, Sweden, established in 1899. The club runs track and field athletics, handball, disabled sports, orienteering, earlier even bandy. The men's bandy team played in the Swedish top division in 1931 and ...

IFK Uppsala IFK Uppsala is a Swedish sports club located in Uppsala in Sweden, with several departments: * IFK Uppsala Fotboll, association football department * IFK Uppsala Bandy, bandy department The club was established in 1895. On 30 January 1921, t ...

Linköpings AIK Linköpings AIK is a sports club in Linköping, Sweden, established on 22 October 1908. The club runs orienteering, earlier even bandy and soccer. The men's bandy team played in the Swedish top division in 1931. and also reached three semifinals wh ...

Nässjö IF Nässjö IF, full name ''Nässjö Idrottsförening'', is a sports club in Nässjö, Sweden, mostly active with playing bandy. The club colours are blue and yellow, but the team uniforms are often in blue and white. The club was founded in 1899. Th ...

, and

Örebro SK Örebro Sportklubb, more commonly known as Örebro SK, Örebro or (especially locally) ÖSK, is a Swedish professional football club based in Örebro. The club are affiliated to Örebro Läns Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Behrn A ...

and finished 1st.

Honours

Domestic

* Swedish Champions: ** Winners (6): 1925, 1928, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1937 ** Runners-up (5): 1919, 1931, 1933, 1952, 1967

References

1904 establishments in Sweden Defunct bandy clubs in Sweden Bandy clubs established in 1904 Sport in Karlstad Athletics clubs in Sweden {{bandy-stub