:''This list is about Malmö FF players with at least 100 league appearances. For a list of all Malmö FF players with a Wikipedia article, see
Malmö FF players. For the current Malmö FF first-team squad, see
First-team squad.''
Malmö Fotbollförening, also known simply as Malmö FF, is a Swedish professional
association football
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club based in
Malmö
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. The club is affiliated with
Skånes Fotbollförbund
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Background
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(The Scanian Football Association), and plays its home games at
Stadion. Formed on 24 February 1910, Malmö FF is the most successful club in Sweden in terms of trophies won.
The club have won the most
league
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titles of any Swedish club with twenty-one, a joint record eighteen
Swedish championship titles and a record fourteen
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titles.
The team competes in Allsvenskan as of the
2015 season; this is Malmö FF's 15th consecutive season in the top flight, and their 80th overall. The main rivals of the club are
Helsingborgs IF
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,
IFK Göteborg
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and, historically,
IFK Malmö
Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Malmö, more commonly known as IFK Malmö, is a Swedish sports club with several departments, located in Malmö. The club was founded on 23 April 1899.
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. Since playing their first competitive match, more than 480 players have made a league appearance for the club, of whom 90 players have made at least 100 appearances; those players are listed here.
Defender
Krister Kristensson
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is the player with the most league appearances in the club's history, having made 348 appearances between 1963 and 1978, scoring seven goals. Kristensson also played for the
Sweden men's national football team
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, and ended his career with 38 international
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. Forward
Hans Håkansson
Hans Håkansson (9 September 1908, Malmö - 1993) was a Swedish footballer.
Career
Håkansson played for Malmö FF
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is the player who has scored the most goals in league matches for Malmö FF, with 163 goals in 192 matches;
Bo Larsson
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holds the record of most goals scored in Allsvenskan with 119 goals in the league.
Key
;General
*League appearances and goals are for first-team competitive league matches only, including
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,
Svenska Serien
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,
Superettan
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and
Division 2 matches. Substitute appearances included. Total appearances and goals are for first-team matches only, including all competitive and friendly matches.
*Players are listed according to the total number of league games played, the player with the most goals scored is ranked higher if two or more players are tied.
*Positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time. Thus the change in the names of defensive and midfield reflects the
tactical evolution that occurred from the 1960s onwards. The year 1960 is used as a breaking point in this list for the use of names of defensive and midfield positions.
;Table headers
* Nationality – If a player played international football, the country/countries he played for are shown. Otherwise, the player's nationality is given as their country of birth.
* Malmö FF career – The year of the player's first appearance for Malmö FF to the year of his last appearance.
* League appearances – The number of games played in league competition.
* League goals – The number of goals scored in league competition.
* Total appearances – The number of games played in all games for the club including friendlies.
* Total goals – The number of goals scored in all games for the club including friendlies.
Players
''Statistics correct as of match played 14 December 2019''.
Club captains
Since 1940, 30 players have held the position of club captain for Malmö FF.
The first club captain was
Sture Mårtensson, who was captain from 1940 to 1949. Mårtensson is also the longest-serving captain.
Krister Kristensson
Carl Krister Kristensson (25 July 1942 – 28 January 2023) was a Swedish footballer who played as a defender. He represented Malmö FF and Trelleborgs FF during a career that spanned between 1963 and 1981. A full international between 1967 ...
, who was captain from 1970 to 1978, has the distinction of having won the most trophies as captain; he won five
Allsvenskan
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Founded in 1924, it operates on a system of promotion and relegatio ...
titles and four
Svenska Cupen
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titles. The current club captain is midfielder
Anders Christiansen
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who has held the captaincy since the beginning of the
2020 season.
Footnotes
References
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Players
Lists of footballers in Sweden by club
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