Onsala BK is a

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club located in

Onsala Onsala () is a urban areas of Sweden, locality situated in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 11,951 inhabitants in 2010. It is also a 14 km long peninsula on the west coast of Sweden, facing Kattegat, south of Gothenburg. ...

. Onsala BK is the biggest football club in Halland with over a thousand active players both boys and girls.

Background

Onsala BK currently plays in

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. They play their home matches at the Rydets IP in Onsala. In the early years, the club also played

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 club is affiliated to

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

. Onsala BK played in the 2011 Svenska Cupen and won 1–0 against

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in the preliminary round before losing 0–3 at home to

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in the first round. Onsala BK competed again in 2016-17 Svenska Cupen where they won over

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in the first round 4–2 but then lost 6–0 to the

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team

Ängelholms FF Ängelholms FF is a football club based in Ängelholm, Sweden. The club is affiliated to Skånes Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Ängelholms IP. The club was formed in 1976 as a merger between Ängelholms IF and Skörpinge GIF. The c ...

Roster 2016

Season to season

''* League restructuring in 2006 resulted in a new division being created at Tier 3 and subsequent divisions dropping a level.'' 2016 This is one of the best years in Onsala BK's history they went winning

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Halland with a margin of 15 points, just losing one game all season. Onsala got promoted and will be playing 2017 in

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Sydvästra Götaland.

Footnotes

External links

Onsala BK
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