Ängelholms FF is a

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club based in

Ängelholm Ängelholm is a urban areas of Sweden, locality and the seat of Ängelholm Municipality in Skåne, Scania, Sweden with 42,131 inhabitants in 2017. History The city was founded in 1516 as Engelholm by King Christian II of Denmark, who moved the se ...

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. The club is affiliated to

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and play their home games at

Ängelholms IP Ängelholms IP, sometimes also referred to as Änglavallen, is a association football, football and track and field athletics, athletics stadium in Ängelholm, and the home arena for Ängelholms FF. It was inaugurated on 9 September 1925. Ängelh ...

. The club was formed in 1976 as a merger between Ängelholms IF and Skörpinge GIF. The club plays in Division 1, the third highest tier of

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History

Ängelholms IF were founded in 1905 and Skörpinge GIF were founded in 1950. Ängelholms IF had their most successful period in the 1930s when they played in Swedish Division 2 against clubs such as

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and

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. Ängelholms IF were the most successful club in Ängelholm until Skörpinge GIF were founded and later seriously started to compete for the best talents of the town. Discussions of a possible merger initiated in 1975 after the two clubs realised the potential in a merger. Both clubs realised that the best opportunity for Ängelholm to have a professional club would be to merge the two clubs. They merged in 1976 and founded Ängelholms FF. However the success that the two clubs had in vision took until the 1990s to aspire. Between 1997 and 2001, Ängelholms FF were promoted from

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to the second highest tier,

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. The club was relegated back to Division 2 and played there until they were promoted to the newly created tier three, Division 1. The club was once again promoted in their second season of the league and found themselves in Superettan for the second time in the club's history. In

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the club reached their highest position in the Swedish league system yet, 5th place in Superettan. On 22 December 2016 the club applied for bankruptcy. However, on 17 January 2017, it was announced that the club had been saved from bankruptcy.

Players

First-team squad

Retired numbers

12 – Daniel Johansson, defender (1996–2009)

Achievements

League

* Division 2 Västra Götaland:

Footnotes

References

External links

Ängelholms FF
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