Piteå IF is a
Swedish
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football
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club located in
Piteå
Piteå () is a locality and the seat of Piteå Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. Piteå is Sweden's 58th largest city, with a population of 23,326.
Geography
Piteå is located at the mouth of the Pite River ( sv, Piteälven), at th ...
.
Background
The club was formed 24 May 1918 but did not take up football until 1920 when they merged with their local rivaling club IFK Piteå, which then was dissolved. Piteå IF is currently playing in the third-highest Swedish division,
Division 2, for men and the ladies' team are playing in the highest league,
Damallsvenskan
The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...
, which is their highest-ever position in the Swedish ladies' league system. The men's team's best season up until this day is their season in Sweden's second-highest division 1998. The club's men's reserve team play in the sixth highest Swedish league, Division 4.
The club has one of the largest youth academies in football in the county of
Norrbotten
Norrbotten (), known in English as North Bothnia, is a Swedish province (''landskap'') in northernmost Sweden. It borders south to Västerbotten, west to Swedish Lapland, and east to Finland.
Administration
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and is one of two arranging clubs of the large international youth football cup Piteå Summer Games.
The club plays their home matches at
LF Arena
LF Arena is a football stadium in Piteå, Sweden and the home stadium for the football team Piteå IF
Piteå Idrottsförening, commonly known as Piteå IF, is a Swedish football club located in Piteå that currently competes in Sweden's top- ...
.
Season to season
Attendances
In recent seasons Piteå IF have had the following average attendances:
Current squad
External links
Piteå IFnbsp;– official site
Piteå Summer Gamesnbsp;– official site
Footnotes
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IF
Football clubs in Norrbotten County
Association football clubs established in 1918
Piteå IF