Sandvikens IF is a Swedish

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club located in

Sandviken Sandviken is a locality and the seat of Sandviken Municipality in Gävleborg County, Sweden with 39,234 inhabitants in 2019. It is situated about 25 km west of Gävle and lies approximately 190 km north of Stockholm. The rail journey t ...

. The club, formed 6 June 1918, has played 21 seasons in the highest Swedish league, but is in the third highest Swedish league, Division 1. Sandvikens IF are affiliated to the

Gestriklands Fotbollförbund The Gestriklands Fotbollförbund ''(Gestrikland Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in Gästrikland in Norrland. Background Gestriklands Fotb ...

. As Sandviken is an industrial community, dominated by the steel and metal

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, the team has been much influenced by this. The name of the home ground, Jernvallen, would translate approximately as The Iron Ground, while the nicknames ''Järngänget'' and ''Stålmännen'' are self-explaining. ''Stålmännen'' has a double meaning, as it also is the plural form of ''Stålmannen'', the Swedish name for

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Season to season

Current squad

Achievements

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

: ** Best placement (3rd): 1935–36 – and gained thereby the ''Little Silver'' medals.

External links

Sandvikens IF
nbsp;– official site

Footnotes

{{allsvenskan Allsvenskan clubs Football clubs in Gävleborg County Association football clubs established in 1918 1918 establishments in Sweden