Djurgårdens IF Bandy is the bandy section of

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Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is name ...

, located in Stockholm.

History

Djurgårdens IF was one of the teams playing at the

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in 1905, where the team lost the final to Uppsala HK. The club has been in the Swedish championship finals seven times before 1930, and won two of them, in 1908 and 1912. The 1908 team, who defeated Östergötlands BF with 3–1 at Idrottsparken in Norrköping, consisted of Bror Modén, Gunnar Friberg, Karl Öhman, Algot Nilsson, Götrik Frykman, Birger Walla, Arvid Spångberg, Ivar Friberg, Erik Lavass, Erik Andéhn, and Gottfrid Johansson. The 1912 champions title was shared with

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after a first draw on lake

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, since no rematch could be played. The 1912 team, consisted of Knut Gustafsson, Ragnar Wicksell, Karl Öhman, Erik Lavass, Götrik Frykman, Folke Wahlgren, Jean Söderberg, Sten Söderberg, Karl-Gunnar Karlsson-Arnö, Gottfrid Johansson, and Ivar Friberg. In the first year of bandy league system in Sweden, 1930–31, Djurgården entered in

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together with

IF Göta IF Göta is a sports club in Karlstad, Sweden, founded in 1904. The club used to have a successful team in bandy, becoming Swedish champions six times, but now is only concentrated on athletics. The bandy department was merged with IF Boltic to ...

, IFK Strängnäs,

IK Göta IK Göta is a Swedish sports club, which was very successful in several sports such as track and field, handball, bowling, field hockey, ice hockey, soccer (women only) and bandy during the 20th century. Their most famous and successful sport w ...

, Linköpings AIK, Nässjö IF, and

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and finished 5th. After the 2006–07 season, Djurgården advanced to Allsvenskan, the second highest league in Swedish bandy, but has since been relegated to Division 1 again. At the end of the 2013–14 season, Djurgården narrowly missed the qualification to Allsvenskan, thus playing in Division 1 in the 2014–15 season. In 2014, Djurgården was close to bankruptcy but merged with Spånga/Bromstens BK. In the 2015–16 season, Djurgården played in Allsvenskan again. Djurgården played their home games at

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for a couple of years, but for the 2017–18 season they moved to

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, closer to the club's traditional home areas.

Honours

Domestic

* Swedish Champions: ** Winners (2): 1908, 1912 ** Runners-up (5): 1909, 1911, 1914, 1916, 1930

References

External links

Official club website
Bandy clubs in Sweden Bandy Bandy clubs established in 1891 1891 establishments in Sweden Sports clubs and teams in Stockholm {{Bandy-team-stub