Tyresö Fotbollsförening is a
Swedish
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football
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club in
Tyresö, a
municipality
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in
Stockholm County
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. The club was founded in 1971 and is primarily known for its main women's team, which competed in the top-tier league
Damallsvenskan
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in the 2010–2014, 1993–1996 and 1999 seasons, winning the Swedish Championship in
2012
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. Notable players that have played for the team include
the most capped footballer of all time Kristine Lilly
Kristine Marie Lilly Heavey (; born July 22, 1971) is an American retired soccer player. She was a member of the United States women's national team for 23 years and is the most-capped football player in the history of the sport (men's or wome ...
, joint
FIFA Female Player of the Century
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Michelle Akers
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and six time
FIFA World Player of the Year
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Marta
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.
Tyresö FF are affiliated to the
Stockholms Fotbollförbund
The Stockholms Fotbollförbund ''(Stockholm Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in Stockholm County.
Background
Stockholms Fotbollförbund, c ...
. In 2011 and 2012, they finished runners-up in the
Swedish Cup. In the
2012 season, Tyresö won Damallsvenskan title for the first time. The club reached the
2014 Champions League Final but experienced serious financial problems that year, with the club's parent
joint-stock company
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Tyresö Fotboll AB going
bankrupt
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on 24 June 2014.
The team withdrew from the
2014–15 Champions League season, with
Linköpings FC
Linköpings Fotboll Club is an association football club from Linköping, Sweden. The club was established in 2003 when Kenty DFF women's football club decided to merge with the premier division ice hockey club Linköpings HC under the new name L ...
taking their spot.
During the 2014 season, the team withdrew from Damallsvenskan, meaning they would be relegated to the fourth-tier league
Division 2.
In 2017 the team started again in the third tier Division 1. It reached mid table places in the next two seasons.
The club has an
associated men's team who play in the lower categories.
History
2000s
In 2005 a young Tyresö team were relegated to
Division 3, the regionalised fourth tier of Swedish women's football. That autumn
Hans Löfgren joined the club's board as football manager and presided over a swift rise through the divisions. Two successive promotions in 2006 and 2007 were followed by a year of consolidation in 2008; finishing sixth in the
Division 1. Promotion back to the Damallsvenskan was secured in 2009. By attracting a network of sponsors Löfgren had funded the increasingly ambitious acquisition of new players every season. By the time the club returned to the top level Damallsvenskan in 2010,
Jennifer Egelryd was the only player who remained from the 2005 Third Division team.
After two fourth-placed finishes in 2010 and 2011, Tyresö won the Damallsvenskan title on the last day of the
2012 season after beating rivals
LdB FC Malmö 1–0. In doing so they qualified for the
UEFA Women's Champions League
The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA.
The ...
for the first time. Löfgren had withdrawn from day-to-day involvement with the club in late 2011, after his conviction for
buying sex. In Sweden it
is illegal to buy sex, but not to sell it.
Insolvency (2014)
The club faced serious financial problems in 2014, yet achieved sporting success. The team reached
the Final
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of the
2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League
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German team VfL Wolfsburg won the title over Swedish club Tyre ...
.
In March 2014 reports emerged that Tyresö Fotboll AB, the female club's parent
joint-stock company
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, was in arrears with its tax payments and on the verge of bankruptcy. Club chairman Hans Lindberg blamed loss of sponsorship and the cost of building a new stand at
Tyresövallen
Tyresövallen, previous known as Bollmoravallen, is a football stadium in Tyresö, Sweden. The main tenants of the stadium are the football team Tyresö FF
Tyresö Fotbollsförening is a Swedish football club in Tyresö, a municipality in S ...
stadium for the shortfall. The club asked the local authority for a one-off grant of SEK 2.7 million in order to continue trading, but the request was unanimously rejected. Instead, a
debt restructuring
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plan was drawn up, which included an aid project designed in cooperation with an unnamed African state.
Later in March 2014, the district court in
Nacka
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ruled that Tyresö Fotboll AB could continue with their restructuring plan. The
Swedish Tax Agency
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The agency was formed on 1 January 2004 through the merger of the Swedish Nationa ...
had intended to block the plans and force the club out of business, but changed their minds after receiving more detailed information about repayments. As the
Government of Sweden
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guarantees the wages of citizens whose employers go bankrupt, up to SEK 176,000, the players' salaries were paid. But the club remained in a form of
administration
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, so prize money from the UEFA Women's Champions League would go to the Government and Tax Agency first, as the highest priority creditors. This also meant that large contractual bonuses promised to the players would not be paid.
It became clear that Tyresö's large and expensively assembled squad would break up. The club announced in April 2014 that leading players
Marta
Marta may refer to:
People
* Marta (given name), a feminine given name
* Märta, a feminine given name
* Marta (surname)
:István Márta composer
* Marta (footballer) (born 1986), Brazilian professional footballer
Places
* Marta (river), an ...
,
Caroline Seger
Sara Caroline Seger (born 19 March 1985) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a midfielder and club captain for FC Rosengård in the Damallsvenskan league. She is the current captain of the Swedish national football team.
Club career
Linköpi ...
and
Verónica Boquete
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were all leaving the club when their contracts expired in June 2014. This was in addition to the three American players who had already committed to return to the
National Women's Soccer League
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(NWSL) when Tyresö's UEFA Women's Champions League campaign ended. In late April
Birmingham City Ladies manager
David Parker described Tyresö FF as female "
galácticos
' (Spanish for ''galactics, referring to superstars) are expensive, world-famous football players'' recruited during the "''galácticos''" policy pursued during Florentino Pérez's presidency at Real Madrid, where in his first tenure between 20 ...
" before they beat his team 3–0 in the UEFA Women's Champions League semi-final.
As of early June 2014, Tyresö Fotboll AB had racked up a debt of nearly 10 million
SEK. The club filed for continued debt restructuring but it was turned down on 10 June 2014.
The team withdrew from the
2014–15 Champions League season, with the
2013 Damallsvenskan
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's third-placed team
Linköpings FC
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taking their spot.
Having played eight matches in the
2014 Damallsvenskan
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, the team withdrew from the league on 5 June 2014 due to lack of players, meaning they would be relegated to the fourth-tier league
Division 2. All their results were nullified and deleted from the table.
On 24 June 2014, Tyresö Fotboll AB went
bankrupt
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and ceased to exist. It's uncertain whether the main women's team will continue play in the 2015 season, although the club has another women's team playing in the third-tier league
Division 1 as of the 2014 season.
Season results
Stadium
Tyresö currently play at
Tyresövallen
Tyresövallen, previous known as Bollmoravallen, is a football stadium in Tyresö, Sweden. The main tenants of the stadium are the football team Tyresö FF
Tyresö Fotbollsförening is a Swedish football club in Tyresö, a municipality in S ...
, a football stadium located in Tyresö, Sweden. The stadium holds capacity for 2,700 spectators. It features a synthetic pitch that is 105x65 meters, an audio system and game clock.
Broadcasting
Tyresö FF games are broadcast on
TV4 Sport
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in Sweden. Matches are also available live via the TV4 Sport website.
Record in UEFA Women's Champions League
''All results (away, home and aggregate) list Tyresö's goal tally first.''
a First leg.
Current squad
Former players
''For details of current and former players, see
:Tyresö FF players.''
Honours
*
UEFA Women's Champions League
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The ...
:
**Runner up (1):
2014
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*
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 ...
:
** Champions (1): 2012
*
Svenska Cupen
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:
**Runner up (2): 2011, 2012
References
External links
Tyresö FFnbsp;– Official website
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Football clubs in Stockholm
Association football clubs established in 1971
Women's football clubs in Sweden
1971 establishments in Sweden
Damallsvenskan teams