Nässjö IF, full name ''Nässjö Idrottsförening'', is a sports club in
Nässjö
Nässjö () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 16,678 inhabitants in 2010.
History
For many years, Nässjö was a rural village with agriculture as the dominant occupation. ...
, Sweden, mostly active with playing
bandy
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. The club colours are blue and yellow, but the team uniforms are often in blue and white. The club was founded in 1899. The club is playing the home games at Stinsen Arena, which is named for Lennart "Stinsen" Israelsson, who donated 1 million SEK to the project.
The club has played in the second level bandy league in Sweden,
Allsvenskan
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, since the start of the present Allsvenskan in 2007. In 1949, the club won the
Swedish Championship of bandy.
History
In the first year of bandy league system in Sweden, 1930–31, Nässjö 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
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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 ...
,
IF Göta
IF Göta is a sports club in Karlstad, Sweden, founded in 1904. The club used to have a successful team in bandy, becoming Swedish champions six times, but now is only concentrated on athletics. The bandy department was merged with IF Boltic to ...
,
IFK Strängnäs,
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 ...
,
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 ...
,
Linköpings AIK, 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 4th.
Honours
Domestic
*
Swedish Champions:
[ ]
** Winners (1): 1949
** Runners-up (2): 1939, 1953
References
External links
* http://www.svenskalag.se/nassjoif
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Bandy clubs in Sweden
Bandy clubs established in 1899
1899 establishments in Sweden
Sport in Nässjö