Dalkurd Fotbollsförening, commonly known as Dalkurd FF or simply Dalkurd () is a Swedish football club based in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...

. The club plays in the

Ettan Norra Ettan might refer to: *Ettan (football) 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 refe ...

, which is the third tier of football in the country. On 26 September 2004, the club was originally founded by members of the

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diaspora in

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. On 24 November 2017, Dalkurd chose to move their senior team operations to

, some 140 kilometers southeast of Borlänge, where they will play at the new ground Nya Studenternas IP following its opening in 2020. In the 2018 season, however, Dalkurd played their home games at

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, some 110 kilometers north of Uppsala (and roughly 110 kilometers east of Borlänge). Dalkurd FF holds the record for the lowest average attendances in the history of both

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 ...

and

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, the two highest Swedish leagues. Dalkurd FF is affiliated with

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History

The club was formed in Borlänge in 2004 by a group of Kurds. It started as a social project to contribute to the youth of Borlänge by offering activities for them.

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helped financing the project. In the first season the squad consisted of an average age of 17 years. Besides contributing to the youngsters, the chairman, Ramazan Kizil, had high expectations of the football players and an ultimate goal: he wanted to take Dalkurd to the professional levels of the Swedish league. Dalkurd won every division they participated in from their very first season in 2005 to 2009. Owing to this uncommon success they got a lot of media attention, both in Sweden and abroad. The club narrowly avoided catastrophe when travelling home from

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in March 2015. The club had initially intended to fly from

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, but changed its booking at the last minute when they decided the layover in Germany would be too long. Flight 4U 9525 crashed into the

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on 24 March, killing everyone on board.

Season to season

Supporters

In 2010, the official supporter club from

Västerås Västerås ( , , ) is a city in central Sweden on the shore of Mälaren, Lake Mälaren in the province of Västmanland, west of Stockholm. The city had a population of 127,799 at the end of 2019, out of the municipal total of 154,049. Västerås ...

for Dalkurd FF with the name "Roj Fans" was founded. They are an independent non-profit organisation. In 2018, they set the record for the lowest average attendance ever – 1,058 – in the history of the highest Swedish league,

. The record was previously held by

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, who had an average attendance of 1,125 in the inaugural season 1924–25. The game against

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with an attendance of 202 people also became the second lowest attendance in the history of the league. In 2019, they set the record for the lowest average attendance in the history of

– 168 people.

Affiliated clubs

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** Uppsala-Kurd FK In 2019, Dalkurd FF announced a cooperation with Uppsala-kurd FK as part of strengthening the presence of Dalkurd FF in the Uppsala region. One of the aims of the cooperation is to make a natural way for talents in Uppsala to become a part of Dalkurd. Uppsala Kurd plays in div. 4 Uppland and is a farm team for Dalkurd FF. Players from the Dalkurd Academy regularly train with Uppsala Kurd. If they are good enough, a transition is made so that they can represent Uppsala Kurd in the series game. The goal is to bring Uppsala Kurd higher up in the series system. We want to be able to offer young players good senior match environments on the way to Dalkurd FF want Uppsala Kurd A in div 3, 2020 and then the goal is to come up in the second in a few years. The football played and the training methodology in Uppsala Kurd is the same as in Dalkurd A and the Dalkurd Academy.

Crest

The crest consist of a round circle with the

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as well as two

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s. "Dal" and "Kurd FF" is spelled out in white letters on the top and bottom of the crest, as well as the year 2004.

Kit

The traditional home colors of Dalkurd are all green. The Away kit is traditionally white but have previously been black, yellow and pink in the 2019 season. The club's kit manufacturer is

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Honours

Players

Current squad

Notable former players

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(born 1992)

Personnel

List of the managers

* Elvan Cicen (2006) * Tomas Blomberg (2007–08) * Bernhard Brcic (2009) * Lasse Ericsson (2010) * Anders Sjöö (2010–11) * Johan Sandahl (2011) * Jonas Björkgren (2012) * Robert Mambo Mumba (2013) * Andreas Brännström (2014–15) *

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(2016–2017) * Andreas Brännström (2017) *

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(2018) * Johan Sandahl (2018) *

Amir Azrafshan Amir Azrafshan (born 17 August 1987) is a Swedish football manager who is currently managing Dalkurd FF. Early life Azrafshan emigrated to Falun at the age of 10. Managerial career Östersund Azrafshan was appointed as manager of Swedish Allsven ...

(2022–)

Attendances

In recent seasons Dalkurd FF have had the following average attendances: ''* Attendances are provided in the Publikliga sections of the Svenska Fotbollförbundet website.''

References

External links

*
Roj Fans
Official website
Dalkurd FF – Laget.se
{{Dalkurd FF squad 2004 establishments in Sweden Association football clubs established in 2004 Football clubs in Uppsala County Sport in Uppsala Diaspora football clubs in Sweden Kurdish diaspora in Europe