Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional

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based in

Norrköping Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Linköp ...

. The club is affiliated to

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 ...

and play their home games at Östgötaporten. The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are white and blue. Formed on 29 May 1897, the club have won thirteen

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titles and six

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titles. The club plays in the highest Swedish tier, Allsvenskan, which they first won in

1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...

. IFK Norrköping were most successful during the 1940s, when they won five Swedish championships and two Svenska Cupen titles under the Hungarian coach

Lajos Czeizler Lajos Czeizler (5 October 1893 – 6 May 1969) was a Hungarian footballer and coach. With 11 major titles altogether, he remains one of the most successful football coaches of all time. Career Czeizler was born in a Jewish family in Heves, Aust ...

and with players like

Gunnar Nordahl Nils Gunnar Nordahl (; 19 October 1921 – 15 September 1995) was a Swedish professional footballer. A highly prolific, powerful, and physically strong striker, with an eye for goal, he is best known for his spell at AC Milan from 1949 to 1956, ...

and

Nils Liedholm Nils Erik Liedholm (; 8 October 1922 – 5 November 2007) was a Swedish football midfielder and coach. ''Il Barone'' (The Baron), as he is affectionately known in Italy, was renowned for being part of the Swedish "Gre-No-Li" trio of strikers al ...

. IFK Norrköping won the 2015 Allsvenskan, their first win since 1989, which also gave them a spot in the second qualification round of 2016–17 UEFA Champions League.

History

IFK Norrköping dominated Swedish football in the post war era and won the first division 11 times in 20 years, culminating in the league triumph of 1963. It took the club another 26 years before adding championship title number 12 to the trophy cabinet. On 31 October 2015, IFK Norrköping won their 13th championship title after defeating the defending champions

Malmö FF Malmö Fotbollförening, commonly known as Malmö FF, Malmö, or MFF, is a professional football club and the most successful football club in Sweden in terms of trophies won. Formed in 1910 and affiliated with the Scania Football Association ...

with 2–0 away in

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in Malmö in the last round of 2015 Allsvenskan. This was the second time in a row they had to wait 26 years between titles. On 8 November IFK Norrköping won

supercupen Svenska Supercupen, ''Swedish Super Cup'', was a one-off fixture in Swedish football played between the Allsvenskan champions and the winners of Svenska Cupen. The fixture was played in November, after the Allsvenskan season. In the event of a ...

against Swedish cup winners IFK Göteborg. The result was 3–0 after a dominating performance from the reigning Swedish champions.

Rivalries

The club used to have a fierce rivalry with

IK Sleipner Idrottsklubben Sleipner is a sports club in Norrköping, Sweden; the main sports are football and ten-pin bowling. It was founded in 1903, and named after the deity Odin's horse Sleipnir from Norse mythology. Currently, the club's senior men's te ...

, also from Norrköping, before Sleipner's fall from the higher divisions. Another historic rivalry is that against

Åtvidabergs FF Åtvidabergs Fotbollförening, also known simply as Åtvidabergs FF, Åtvidaberg, Åtvid or (especially locally) ÅFF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Åtvidaberg. The club is affiliated with Östergötlands Fotbollförbund and ...

, also from the province of

Östergötland Östergötland (; English exonym: East Gothland) is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap'' in Swedish) in the south of Sweden. It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland and the Baltic Sea. In older English li ...

, which was especially tense in the 1970s and early 2010s. This rivalry has lost importance since Åtvidaberg were relegated from

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

. IFK Norrköping also maintains a rivalry with

; the fixtures between the clubs is sometimes known as "The Working Class Derby"

Players

First-team squad

Out on loan

Retired numbers

* 12 – Fans of the club

Winners of Guldbollen

*1947:

*1949:

Knut Nordahl Knut Erik Alexander Nordahl (13 January 1920 – 28 October 1984) was a Swedish footballer who played as a midfielder. Career He played for IFK Norrköping and A.S. Roma. He won the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics along with his brothe ...

*1953: Bengt "Julle" Gustavsson *1957: Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson *1960: Torbjörn Jonsson *1961: Bengt "Zamora" Nyholm *1963:

Harry Bild Harry Sven-Olof Bild (born 18 December 1936) is a Swedish former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Striker (association football), striker. Club career Born in Växjö he was transferred to IFK Norrköping during the 1 ...

*1966:

Ove Kindvall Bengt Ove Kindvall (born 16 May 1943) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He started his career at IFK Norrköping, where he played until he joined Feyenoord in 1966 and became professional. The same year, he w ...

*1968:

Björn Nordqvist Björn Axel Göte Nordqvist (born 6 October 1942) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Career During the 1960s and 1970s Nordqvist was captain of the Sweden national team. He played at the 1970 FIFA World ...

*1990:

Tomas Brolin Per Tomas Brolin (born 29 November 1969) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a forward or as a midfielder. At club level, he had a successful period with A.C. Parma during the early 1990s, winning the 1992 Coppa Italia, ...

*1992: Jan Eriksson

League top scorers

Allsvenskan

1944–45 (27 goals), 1945–46 (25 goals) and 1947–48 (18 goals) *

1956–57 (19 goals) * Henry "Putte" Källgren 1957–58 (27 goals) (shared with

Bertil Johansson John Bertil "Bebben" Johansson (22 March 1935 – 5 May 2021) was a Swedish association football, football player who played as a striker (association football), striker, most notably for IFK Göteborg. He was also a manager (association footba ...

IFK Göteborg Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or simply Göteborg, is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it is the ...

) *

1966 (20 goals) *

Jan Hellström Jan Erik "Janne" Hellström (born February 21, 1960) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a striker, most notably for IFK Norrköping. He won six caps for the Sweden national team between 1986 and 1989 and represented the Sweden Olympi ...

1989 (16 goals) *

Niclas Kindvall Bengt Niclas Kindvall (born 19 February 1967) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Career Kindvall was the 1994 Allsvenskan top scorer with IFK Norrköping, which won him a contract with Hamburger SV in the ...

1994 (23 goals) *

Imad Khalili Imad Khalili ( ar, عماد خليلي; born 3 April 1987) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or a striker. He is the assistant coach of Hammarby IF in Allsvenskan. Club career Breakthrough At age five, K ...

2013 (15 goals) (eight goals scored for

Helsingborgs IF Helsingborgs IF (full name Helsingborgs Idrottsförening), commonly referred to as HIF (), is a Swedish professional football club located in Helsingborg. They play in the Swedish first tier, Allsvenskan, following promotion in the 2021 Superet ...

) *

Emir Kujović Emir Kujović ( Cyrillic: Емир Кујовић; born 22 June 1988) is Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker. He has won five caps for the Sweden national team, and was a squad player at UEFA Euro 2016. Club career Halms ...

2015 (21 goals) * Kalle Holmberg 2017 (14 goals) (shared with Magnus Eriksson,

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 ...

) *

Christoffer Nyman Christoffer Åke Sven "Totte" Nyman (born 5 October 1992) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays for IFK Norrköping as a forward. Club career Youth career Nyman was born in Norrköping and grew up close to the IFK Norrköping home s ...

2020 (18 goals) * Samuel Adegbenro 2021 (17 goals)

Superettan (Division II 1924/1925–1986 and Division I 1987–1999)

* Stefan Pettersson 1983 (17 goals) *

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2005 (17 goals) * Garðar Gunnlaugsson 2007 (18 goals)

Management

Technical staff

''As of 10 January 2021''

Honours

League

Norrköping,_de_doelman_gebruikt_vliegenvangerslijm_om_zijn_effectiviteit_te_verbeteren_(1963)

* Swedish Champions ** Winners (13): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1989, 2015 *

: ** Winners (12): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57,

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

, 1962,

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

** Runners-up (10): 1952–53, 1957–58,

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

, 1966,

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

, 1989,

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

, 1993,

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

Superettan Superettan (; meaning the super first (division)) is an association football league and the second highest league in the league system of Swedish men's football. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Al ...

: ** Winners (1): 2007 ** Runners-up (1):

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

Mästerskapsserien Mästerskapsserien (Championship League) was a short-lived Swedish football league played 1991 and 1992 to decide the Swedish Champions. The top six teams from Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan ...

: ** Runners-up (2):

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

Cups

Svenska Cupen Svenska Cupen (, ''The Swedish Cup'') is a knockout cup competition in Swedish football and the main Swedish football cup. Svenska Cupen usually refers to the men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also held. Each year 96 teams compe ...

: ** Winners (6):

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...

, 1968–69, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1993–94 ** Runners-up (5):

1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...

, 1953, 1967, 1971–72, 2016–17 *

Svenska Supercupen Svenska Supercupen, ''Swedish Super Cup'', was a one-off fixture in Swedish football played between the Allsvenskan champions and the winners of Svenska Cupen. The fixture was played in November, after the Allsvenskan season. In the event of a ...

: ** Winners (1):

IFK Norrköping in Europe

Records

*Most played games (

or Division I): : Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson, 321 games (1949–65) *Most league goals (

or Division I): : Henry "Putte" Källgren, 126 goals (1951–60) *Most spectators: : 32 234 against

, 7 June 1956 *Biggest victory (

or Division I): : 11–1 against

, 14 October 1945. *Biggest defeat (

or Division I): : 0 – 11 against

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, 6 April 1928 and

, 22 September 1929

Managerial history

List of IFK Norrköping managers 1905– * Alexander “Sandy” Tait (1905) *

Fred Spiksley Fred Spiksley (25 January 1870 – 28 July 1948) was an English footballer and coach, who played as a forward for Sheffield Wednesday and England. He also played for Gainsborough Trinity, Glossop North End, Leeds City, Watford. After retirin ...

(1910) *

Herbert Butterworth Herbert Butterworth (September quarter 1902 – March quarter 1938) was an English professional footballer who played as a left half. He played nine matches in the Football League for Nelson and also assisted several non-league clubs. In 1929, h ...

(1921–22) *

Imre Schlosser Imre Schlosser (also known as Imre Schlosser-Lakatos; 11 October 1889 – 18 July 1959) was a Hungarian footballer of Danube Swabian ancestry who played as a forward. He still holds the record as the highest goalscorer in the history of the H ...

(1923–24) * Rudolf Haglund (1925–35) * Sölve Flisberg (1936) * Vilgot Lindberg (1936–37) * Torsten Johansson (1937–38) * Bengt Flisberg (1938–41) * Rudolf Haglund (1941) *

(1942–48) * Eric Keen (1949) * Karl Adamek (1950–53) * Torsten Lindberg (1954) * Karl Adamek (1955–57) * Vilmos Varszegi (1957–62) * Georg Ericson (1958–66) *

(1967–70) *

Gösta Löfgren Karl Gösta Herbert "Lövet" Löfgren (29 August 1923 – 5 September 2006) was a Swedish association football player who won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. Between 1951 and 1961, he p ...

(1971–72) *

Örjan Martinsson Örjan Martinsson (1 November 1936 – 28 February 1997) was a Swedish footballer who played as a forward. He made 20 appearances for the Sweden national team from 1960 to 1966. Honours IFK Norrköping * Allsvenskan: 1960, 1962, 1963 ...

(1973–74) *

Bengt Gustavsson Bengt Olov Emanuel "Julle" Gustavsson (13 January 1928 – 16 February 2017) was a Swedish professional footballer and manager. As player he participated in the final of the World Cup 1958 and won national championships with IFK Norrköping. As ...

(1975–78) *

(1979–80) * Bo Axberg (1981–82) * Lars-Göran Qwist (1983–84) *

Kent Karlsson Kent Karlsson (born 25 November 1945) is a Swedish football coach and former player. He was capped 38 times for the national team and played at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. As a manager, he has managed Swedish, Danish and Norwegian clubs such as IFK ...

(1985–89) * Jörgen Augustsson (1990) *

Sanny Åslund John Sanny Åslund (born 29 August 1952) is a Swedish former Association football, football coach and former player. As a player, he represented Degerfors IF, AIK Fotboll, AIK, RCD Espanyol, Espanyol, and SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen during a ...

(1991–92) *

Sören Cratz Carl Sören Harry Cratz (born 28 September 1948) is a Swedish former football manager. As a manager of Hammarby IF, he won the 2001 Allsvenskan Allsvenskan 2001, part of the 2001 Swedish football season, was the 77th Allsvenskan season playe ...

(1993–94) *

(1995) * Tomas Nordahl (1995) * Colin Toal (1996–97) *

Olle Nordin Carl Jan Olof "Olle" Nordin (born 23 November 1949) is a Swedish former association football, football coach and former player. He represented IFK Norrköping, IFK Sundsvall, and IFK Göteborg during a playing career that spanned between 1970 and ...

(1997–00) * Tor-Arne Fredheim (2001) * Bengt-Arne Strömberg (2002) * Håkan Ericson (2002–03) * Stefan Hellberg (2004–05) *

Mats Jingblad Mats Olof Jingblad (born 9 August 1958) is a Swedish football coach and former footballer who played as a striker. Club career Jingblad played for BK Astrio and Halmstads BK. He made a total of 216 appearances for Halmstads BK. International ...

(2005–08) *

(2007–08) * Göran Bergort (2009–10) *

Janne Andersson Jan Olof "Janne" Andersson (; born 29 September 1962) is a Swedish football coach who manages the Sweden national team. He is also a former player, with his playing career lasting 14 years between 1979 and 1993 playing for different Swedish cl ...

(1 January 2011 – 23 June 2016) * Jens Gustafsson (24 June 2016 – 19 december 2020) *

Rikard Norling Rikard Olof Norling (; born 4 June 1971) is a Swedish football manager. Forced to retire early from his professional playing career due to an injury, Rikard Norling started a coaching career at the age of 22. In his early managerial career, Nor ...

(23 December 2020 – 11 July 2022) * Anes Mravac (11 July 2022 – 8 August 2022) Caretaker * Vedran Vucicevic (11 July 2022 – 8 August 2022) Caretaker *

Glen Riddersholm Glen Riddersholm (born 24 April 1972) is a Danish football manager. He is the current manager of Allsvenskan club IFK Norrköping. Coaching career He started as youth coach at Ikast fS and continued in this job, when the club merged with Hernin ...

(8 August 2022 –)

Affiliate clubs

IF Sylvia IF Sylvia is a Swedish football club based in Norrköping. The club, formed on 19 May 1922, is currently playing in the third tier of Swedish football, Division 1. The club is affiliated to the Östergötlands Fotbollförbund. In the early yea ...

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 ...

Officiellt: Husqvarna FF lånar Julius Lindgren
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Other sections

IFK Norrköping also maintains departments for women's football, set up in 2009,

orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a s ...

bowling Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), though ...

and

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 ...

. The bandy team played in Sweden's highest division in 1937. Part of the club was also an

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 ...

team which played in the seasons 1950/51 and 1955/56 in the highest Swedish division. The ice hockey teams of IFK and local rivals

were joined in 1967 to form IF IFK/IKS, known from 1973 forward as ''IK Vita Hästen'' ("Ice Hockey Club White Horse") which evolved into today's

HC Vita Hästen HC Vita Hästen is a Swedish hockey club, based in Norrköping, which was founded following the bankruptcy of a previous club called IK Vita Hästen. The team plays in HockeyAllsvenskan, the second tier of the Swedish ice hockey system, as of t ...

Footnotes

References

External links

IFK Norrköping
nbsp;– official site
Peking Fanz
nbsp;– official supporter club site
IFK Norrköpings Supporter klubb
nbsp;– official supporter club site for seniors
gopeking.net
nbsp;– IFK Norrköpings oldest supporter site
Parkens vita hjältar
nbsp;– supporter site {{DEFAULTSORT:Norrkoping IFK Football clubs in Östergötland County Sport in Norrköping Allsvenskan clubs Association football clubs established in 1897 Bandy clubs established in 1897 1897 establishments in Sweden Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Svenska Cupen winners