IFK Gävle was a sports club in

Gävle Gävle ( ; ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, city in Sweden, the seat of Gävle Municipality and the capital of Gävleborg County. It had 79,004 inhabitants in 2020, which makes it the List of cities in Sweden, 13th-most-populated city in Sweden. I ...

, Sweden. It was founded on 12 March 1897 and the club used the old spelling of their home town's name, ''IFK Gefle'', until 1943. The club has been active in a great number of different sports, like

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, 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 playin ...

figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, with its introduction occurring at the Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympi ...

, gymnastics,

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 ...

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

, football, tennis and

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competitio ...

. From 2001, only the women's football team section remained until the club was dissolved in November 2013. The club was runner-up to the Swedish bandy championship in 1907, where the final game, played at home ice, was lost against

IFK Uppsala IFK Uppsala is a Swedish sports club located in Uppsala in Sweden, with several departments: * IFK Uppsala Fotboll, association football department * IFK Uppsala Bandy, bandy department The club was established in 1895. On 30 January 1921, the ...

Honours

Domestic

* Swedish Champions: ** Runners-up (1): 1907

References

External links

Official homepage
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IFK Gävle Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 2013 Association football clubs established in 1897 Athletics clubs in Sweden Bandy clubs established in 1897 Defunct bandy clubs in Sweden Football clubs in Gävleborg County Defunct football clubs in Sweden Handball clubs in Sweden Defunct handball clubs in Sweden Figure skating clubs in Sweden Gymnastics clubs in Sweden Defunct ice hockey teams in Sweden Ice hockey teams in Gävleborg County Tennis clubs 19th-century establishments in Gävleborg County 21st-century disestablishments in Gävleborg County