HK Malmö is a

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...

club based in

Malmö Malmö is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, sixth-largest city in Nordic countries, the Nordic region. Located on ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

. The club was formed in May 2007 as a merger of Malmö HP and

IFK Malmö Handboll IFK Malmö Handboll is the handball department of the sports club IFK Malmö. The club's colours are yellow and white. History 1933-1960 The handball department was founded in 1933. They made their debut in the top division, at the time known a ...

. The men's plays in the highest handball division in Sweden, while the women's team play in the second tier. The club has activities at both elite and grass roots level, both adult and youth level, and men's and women's teams. It also has a Para handball and 30 youth teams. The club runs the handball academy Malmö idrottsgymnasium.

History

The club has quickly established itself at the top of Swedish handball on the men's side. Their first season in the top flight was the 2007-08, where the team was relegated. They did however come back in the 2009-2010 season. In the 2017-18 season the club reached the semifinal of the Swedish championship for the first time, where they lost to

IFK Kristianstad Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Kristianstad (), or IFK Kristianstad, is a Swedish professional handball club based in Kristianstad. They play in Handbollsligan, the top level of Swedish men's handball. The club was founded in 1899 as a multi-spo ...

Sports Hall information

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Baltiska Hallen Baltiska Hallen (The Baltic Hall) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the Stadionområdet area of Malmö, Sweden. It opened in 1964 in memory of the 50th anniversary of the Baltic Exhibition in 1914. The arena has a capacity of 4.000 people and ...

*City: –

*Capacity: – 4000 *Address: – Eric Perssons väg 8a, 217 62

Kits

Men's team

Current squad

''Squad for the 2021-22 season'': ;Goalkeepers: * 16 Adam Krantz * 12 Erik Helgsten * 18 Ebbe Hakansson * 1 Dan Beutler ;Wingers: ;LW * 18 Adam Tumba * 9 Nils Pettersson ;RW * 21 Martin Boija * 6 Hampus Jildenbäck * 17 Charles Hugoson ;Line Players: * 11 Kassem Awad * 4 Max Santos * 24 Hampus Nygren ;Back Players: ;LB * 33 Inge Aas Eriksen * 25 Anton Blickhammar ;CB * 13 Daniel Ekman * 7 Tim Hilding * 3 Arvid Johansson ;RB * 10 Magnus Persson * 15 Fredrik Lindahl

Transfers

:''Transfers for the 2019-20 season'' ;Joining * Viktor Östlund (LB) (from

TTH Holstebro TTH Holstebro is a men's handball club from Holstebro, Denmark. The team is playing in the Danish Primo Tours Ligaen and play their home matches in Gråkjær Arena. History The club was founded on 1 May 2000, when Holstebro Håndbold 90 a ...

) * Filip Berensen (LB) (from

HK Varberg Handbollsklubben Varberg (HK Varberg) is a Swedish handball club from Varberg, Halland County. It was founded in 1973 after Varbergs BoIS closed their handball department. The team played two seasons season in the Handbollsligan, the top league o ...

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Daniel Ekman Daniel commonly refers to: * Daniel (given name), a masculine given name and a surname * List of people named Daniel * List of people with surname Daniel * Daniel (biblical figure) * Book of Daniel, a biblical apocalypse, "an account of the activi ...

(CB) (from

Eskilstuna Guif Eskilstuna Guif IF, commonly known as Eskilstuna Guif or Guif, is a handball club based in Eskilstuna, Sweden. It has reached the national championship finals on four occasions but never won and currently competes in Handbollsligan, the top dome ...

) * Johannes Larsson (RW) (from

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Oscar Jensen Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People and fictional and mythical characters * Oscar (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters named Oscar, Óscar or Oskar * Oscar (footballer, born 1954), Brazilian footballer J ...

(GK) (from OV Helsingborg) *

Anton Hellberg Anton may refer to: People *Anton (given name), a list of people with the given name *Anton (surname), a list of people with the surname Places *Anton Municipality, Bulgaria **Anton, Sofia Province, a village *Antón District, Panama **Antón, ...

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Elias Hall Elias ( ; ) is the hellenized version for the name of Elijah (; ; , or ), a prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BC, mentioned in several holy books. Due to Elias' role in the scriptures and to many later associated traditi ...

(RB) (from

Kävlinge HK Kävlinge () is a locality and the seat of Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 32,341 inhabitants in 2021. In 1996, a train containing large amounts of ammonia derailed and around 9,000 people had to be evacuated from the area. Thi ...

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Arvid Johansson Arvid, Arved, Arnvid or Arvydas is a male given name, most common in Scandinavia but also in Iran and Lithuania. In Scandinavia it is derived from Old Norse and means "forest of eagles" or 'eagle wood'. Arvid is a royal male name that is composed ...

(LB) (from H43) *

Linus Svensson Linus, a male given name, is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Linos''. It is a common given name in Sweden. The origin of the name is unknown although the name appears in antiquity both as a musician who taught Apollo and as a son of Apollo who ...

(LW) (from H43) *

Niklas Mörk Niklas is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stare Miasto, within Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south of Stare Miasto, south of Konin, and east of the regional capital ...

(RW) (from

Lugi The Lugi were a people of ancient Britain, known only from a single mention of them by the geographer Ptolemy c. 150. from his general description and the approximate locations of their neighbors their territory was along the western coast of th ...

) * Dan Beutler (GK) ;Leaving * Robin Paulsen (to

Skjern Håndbold Skjern Handball () is a team handball, handball club from Skjern, Denmark. Currently, Skjern Handball competes in the Danish Handball League, which they have won twice, in 1999 and in 2018. They have also achieved international success, by winn ...

) * Dan Beutler (GK) (to

GOG Håndbold GOG is a professional handball club based in the small town of Gudme on Funen, Denmark. The club is one of the most successful in the history of Danish handball having won the Danish Handball Championship 9 times and the Danish Handball Cup a r ...

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Adam Lönn Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). According to Christianity, Adam sin ...

(LB) (to

TV Bittenfeld TVB 1898 Stuttgart is a handball club from Waiblingen, town of Bittenfeld, Germany. that plays in the Handball-Bundesliga. History TV Bittenfeld played in the 2nd Division German Handball Championship from the 2006/07 season to the 2014/15 se ...

) * Binai Aziz (CB) (to

Haslum HK Haslum Håndballklubb or Haslum HK is a handball club from Haslum, Norway. They are the handball department of the multisports club Haslum Idrettslag. They currently compete in the Eliteserien Eliteserien () is a professional association fo ...

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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Malmö, HK Handball clubs in Sweden Sports clubs and teams in Malmö 2007 establishments in Sweden Handball clubs established in 2007 21st-century establishments in Skåne County