Vasalunds IF is a

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football club A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an all- ...

based in

Solna Solna Municipality ( sv, Solna kommun or , ) is a municipality in Stockholm County in Sweden, located just north of Stockholm City Centre. Its seat is located in the town of Solna, which is a part of the Stockholm urban area. Solna is one of t ...

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

. The club is affiliated with

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 ...

History

Vasalund was formed in 1934 and play in the Swedish Third Division:

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. In 2002 the club merged with

Essinge IK Essinge IK is a Swedish association Football, football club located in Stockholm. Background Essinge Idrottsklubb is a sports club from Stockholm that was founded on 8 June 1919. Over the years the club has mainly been active in team sports such ...

and changed its name to ''Vasalund/Essinge IF''. The merger was discontinued and the original name was restored before the 2008 season. Vasalund are in close collaboration with Allsvenskan side

AIK AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sports club''), is a Swedish football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The ...

Season to season

Cup (Svenska Cupen)

Attendances

In recent seasons Vasalunds IF have had the following average attendances:

Squad

Coaches

Bo Petersson Bo Petersson (born 10 July 1946 in Kalmar) is a Swedish football manager and former football player. Career He played for Älvsjö AIK, Råsunda IS, Spårvägens FF, Vasalunds IF, AIK, IFK Östersund, Visby AIK and Danderyds SK. After he reti ...

(1983–84) *

(1988–90) *

Erik Hamrén Erik Anders Hamrén (born 27 June 1957) is a Swedish manager and former football player, who is the manager of Danish Superliga club AaB. He also previously coached the Sweden national football team between 2009 and 2016 and the Iceland natio ...

(1992–93) *

Kjell Jonevret Kjell Jonevret (born 28 June 1962) is a Swedish football coach and a former player. Managerial career Jonevret managed Djurgårdens IF between 2004 and 2006. During his time in Djurgården, he led his team to the double, winning both the Allsv ...

(1993–94) *

Roger Palmgren Roger Lennart Palmgren is a Swedish football manager. He has that has been active as club manager in nine different countries: Italy, Sweden, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Africa, Namibia and China. He h ...

(2003–2004) *

(2004–05) * Peter Lenell (2008–2009) * Azrudin Valentic (2009–2011) * Babar Rehman (2013–2015) * Roberth Björknesjö (2015) * Pascal Simpson (2016) * Kalle Karlsson (2017) * Carlos Banda (2017) * Babar Rehman (2017) *

Nebojša Novaković Nebojša Novaković ( sr-Cyrl, Небојша Новаковић, born 29 October 1964) is a former professional football player who played as a striker, most notably for AIK. He is the manager of Vasalunds IF. Born in Sarajevo, he moved to Swe ...

(2018–2019) * Dalibor Savic (2019–2021) * Roberth Björknesjö (2021) * Diamantis "Akis" Vavalis (2022) * Babar Rehman (2022) * Dimitrios Giantsis (2023–)

Achievements

League

: ** Runners-up (4): 1989, 1990, 1993, 2008, 2016 * Division 1 Östra: ** Runners-up (2): 1991, 1992 *

Division 2 Östra Svealand Division 2 is the fourth level in the league system of Swedish football and comprises 84 Swedish football teams. Division 2 had status as the official second level from 1928 to 1986 but was replaced by Division 1 in 1987. It then had status ...

: ** Runners-up (3): 1999, 2004, 2005 *

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: ** Winners (1): 2018 * Division 3 Norra Svealand: ** Winners (1): 2002

External links

Vasalunds IF

Footnotes

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