Karlstad BK was a

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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 ...

club located 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 ...

Värmland County Värmland County (''Värmlands län'') is a county or '' län'' in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, as well as the Norwegian counties of Viken and Innlandet to the west. Prince Carl P ...

. They merged with

Carlstad United Carlstad United BK was a Swedish football club located in Karlstad. The club, formed in 1998, last played in the third highest Swedish league, Division 1 Norra. The club was affiliated to the Värmlands Fotbollförbund. They merged with Karlsta ...

after the 2019 season to form

IF Karlstad Fotboll IF Karlstad Football is a Sweden, Swedish football team in Karlstad, Värmland The club was founded in 2019. In a controversial decision, Carlstad United BK, Carlstad United and Karlstad BK merged with each other. The club currently competes in ...

Background

Since their foundation on 19 October 1923 Karlstad BK has participated mainly in the second and third tiers of the

Swedish football league system The Swedish football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in Sweden which is controlled by the Swedish Football Association The Swedish Football Association ( sv, Svenska Fotbollförbundet, SvFF) is the go ...

. As of 2012 the club currently plays 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 ...

, which is in the third tier of Swedish football. This was not the case in recent years—from 2000 to 2007 KBK were playing in Div 4 Värmland which was the fifth tier and then the sixth tier from 2006. Promotions in 2007 and again in 2009 have enabled the club to restore some pride, especially as they pipped local rivals

FBK Karlstad FBK Karlstad is a Swedish football club located in Karlstad in Värmland County. Background Fotbollsklubben Karlstad was founded in 1971. The club has a large youth section which runs many teams. Among the youngsters that have been developed b ...

to the play-off spot. They play their home matches at the Våxnäs IP and

Tingvalla IP Tingvalla Idrottsplats, Tingvalla IP, is a stadium in Karlstad, Sweden and is the home ground of the football team Carlstad United and the American football team Carlstad Crusaders. It is also used for athletic events and other sports and gatherin ...

in Karlstad. The club is affiliated to the

Värmlands Fotbollförbund The Värmlands Fotbollförbund ''(Värmland Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in the historical province of Värmland. Background Värmlands ...

Season to season

Attendances

In recent seasons Karlstad BK have had the following average attendances:

External links

Karlstad BK
nbsp;– Official Website

Footnotes

{{Authority control Sport in Karlstad Defunct football clubs in Sweden Association football clubs established in 1923 Association football clubs disestablished in 2019 1923 establishments in Sweden