Köpings IS (KIS) is a sports club in

Köping ''Köping'' was a Swedish denomination for a market town since the Middle Ages, derived from the Old Norse word ''kaupang''. The designation was officially abolished with the municipal reform of 1971, when Sweden was subdivided into the Munici ...

, Sweden, mostly active with playing

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

floorball Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role ...

and

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

, earlier also soccer. The soccer section merged with

Forsby FF Forsby is a locality situated in Gävle Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of Swe ...

in 1990 to form Köpings FF. The club colours are yellow and black. The club was founded in 1910. The men's bandy team has played several seasons in the Swedish top division. The club had played in the second-level bandy league in Sweden,

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 ...

, since the start of the present Allsvenskan in 2007 but was relegated to Division 1 in 2013. The club got promoted to Allsvenskan again for the 2014–15 season.

References

External links

Official website (bandy)

Official website (handball)
Bandy clubs in Sweden Bandy clubs established in 1910 1910 establishments in Sweden Sport in Västmanland County Swedish handball clubs {{bandy-team-stub