Skövde AIK is a Swedish football club from

Skövde Skövde () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and urban centre in Skövde Municipality and Västra Götaland County, in the Västergötland, Västergötland (Western Gothland region) in central Southern Sweden. Skövde is situated some 150 ...

. It was founded on 21 June 1919. The club is currently in Superettan.

Background

Skövde AIK has played 14 seasons in second tier Swedish football, the last time being as recently as 1995 in the Division 1 Södra. Eight seasons later the club had plunged into Division 5 Västergötland Östra, the sixth tier, having been relegated 3 consecutive times between 2000 and 2002. However SAIK have made a dramatic recovery and by 2007 were back in Division 1 Södra which is now the third tier of Swedish football after 4 consecutive promotions. In 2006, Skövde AIK won the Division 2 Mellersta Götaland after defeating

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2–1 in the decisive final match before 2364 spectators. In 2009 the club just failed to get into the Superettan after missing out in the Promotion Playoffs. The club is affiliated to the

Västergötlands Fotbollförbund The Västergötlands Fotbollförbund ''(Västergötland Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in the historical province of Västergötland. Back ...

Season to season

Current squad

Attendances

In recent seasons Skövde AIK have had the following average attendances:

Achievements

League

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 Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden ...

: ** Runners-up (1): 2009

Managers

* Gunnar Reis (1958–59) * Sven "Fiskarn" Johansson (1960–1961) * Lars Daremark (1962) * C-G Bolander (1963) *

Arne Selmosson Arne Selmosson (29 March 1931 – 19 February 2002) was a Swedish footballer who played as a striker. Club career Born in Götene, Selmosson played for Jönköpings Södra, Udinese, Lazio it, Laziale , population_note = , popul ...

(1964–68) *

Lars Arnesson Lars "Laban" Arnesson (20 February 1936 – 1 October 2023) was a Swedish professional football player and manager and bandy player. He was the coach of the Sweden national football team from 1980 to 1986. Career Arnesson represented Djurgår ...

(1969) * Axel "Acke" Eriksson (1970) * Carl-Axel "CAS" Stenberg (1971–72) *

Janne Carlsson Jan Edvard Carlsson (12 March 1937 – 31 August 2017), known professionally as Janne 'Loffe' Carlsson, was a Swedish actor, musician, composer and artist. Early life Carlsson was born on 12 March 1937 in Katarina Parish, Stockholm, the son of ...

(1973–74) * Blagoja Vucidolov (1975) * Carl-Axel "CAS" Stenberg (1976–77) * Ove Wigertz (1978) * Sven - Eric "Svenne" Johansson (1979–80) * Christer Fermvik (1981–83) * Thom Åhlund (1984–86) *

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(1987) * Inge Lennartsson (1988–89) * Christer Swärd (1990–94) * Stefan Johansson (1995–96) * Francisco Verona (1997) *

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(1998) * Bengt Persson (1998) * Francisco Verona (1999–2000) * Magnus Henriksson (2001–02) * Gudmundur Magnusson (2003–07) * Stefan Jacobsson (2008–11) * Rickard Söderberg (2012–2013) * Charbel Abraham (2013) * Mikael Thorvald (2018) * Stefan Strind (2019–2020) * Mikael Lindgren (2020) *

Tobias Linderoth Tobias Jan Håkan Linderoth (; born 21 April 1979) is a professional football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Swedish club Skövde AIK. He played as a midfielder, and played professionally in Sweden, Norway, England, Denm ...

(2021–)

Futsal

The club also has a

futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is ...

team who has won SM-guld the previous 5 years.

Honours

*5 Futsal Championship: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

External links

Skövde AIK Official Website

Footnotes

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