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KFUM Borås is a Swedish multi-sport club based in
Borås Borås ( , , ) is a city (officially, a locality) and the seat of Borås Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 66,273 inhabitants in 2010. Geography Borås is located at the point of two crossing railways, among them the ...
. The club's
basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
team, known as
Borås Basket Borås Basket is a professional basketball club based in the Swedish town of Borås. The club was founded in 1952 and currently compete in the Swedish Basketball League (SBL), the country's premier league. Borås has played in European competitio ...
, play in the Swedish top division Basketligan in 2017–18. KFUM is a translation of the English language
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. The club's
handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...
team were promoted to the highest league,
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, in 1964. The team that won promotion mainly consisted of local players. A major reason for their success was the physical shape of the players. Coach Arne Eriksson, a former Swedish military pentathlon champion, made the players regularly practise long-distance running. This gave the team an advantage over technically more skilled opponents. In their debut season in the top-flight, Borås finished second, a single point behind
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. They did this with largely the same team that had won promotion. They had an average attendance around 2400 during the season. However, the club was relegated in the following season and never returned to the top division. During this time, the team played their home matches in
Boråshallen Boråshallen is a sports venue in Borås, Sweden. It's the main arena for indoor sports in Borås. Halls The building has two big halls (A and B) and two smaller halls (C and D). Concerts The A hall has sometimes been used for concerts. In Octo ...
, the same arena that is currently used by the basketball team. In 1984, KFUM Borås's handball department merged with three other clubs to form Borås HK 84. In 2017, Borås HK 84 discontinued its men's first team. The club used to have a
tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
department. In 2012 it merged with two other clubs and the organisation that operates the courts to form Elfsborg Tennis.


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{{Elitserien (handball) Handball clubs in Sweden Sport in Borås Sports clubs and teams founded by the YMCA Multi-sport clubs in Sweden