Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional

football club In association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which association football teams organise their sporting activities. The club can exist either as ...

based in

Norrköping Norrköping ( , ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Lin ...

. The club is affiliated to

Östergötlands Fotbollförbund The Östergötlands Fotbollförbund ''(Östergötland Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in Östergötland County. Background Östergötlands ...

and play their home games at PlatinumCars Arena. The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are white and blue. Formed on 29 May 1897, the club have won thirteen

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titles and six

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titles. The club plays in the highest Swedish tier, Allsvenskan, which they first won in

1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 � ...

. IFK Norrköping were most successful during the 1940s, when they won five Swedish championships and two Svenska Cupen titles under the Hungarian coach Lajos Czeizler and with players like

Gunnar Nordahl Nils Gunnar Nordahl (; 19 October 1921 – 15 September 1995) was a Swedish professional footballer. A highly prolific, powerful, and physically strong striker, with an eye for goal, he is best known for his spell at AC Milan from 1949 to 1956, ...

and

Nils Liedholm Nils Erik Liedholm (; 8 October 1922 – 5 November 2007) was a Swedish association football, football midfielder and coach. ''Il Barone'' (the Baron), as he is affectionately known in Italy, was renowned for being part of the Swedish "Gre-No-Li ...

. IFK Norrköping won the

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, their first win since

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, which also gave them a spot in the second qualification round of

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History

IFK Norrköping dominated Swedish football in the post war era and won the first division 11 times in 20 years, culminating in the league triumph of 1963. It took the club another 26 years before adding championship title number 12 to the trophy cabinet. On 31 October 2015, IFK Norrköping won their 13th championship title after defeating the defending champions

Malmö FF Malmö Fotbollförening (), commonly known simply as Malmö FF or MFF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö, Scania. They compete in the Allsvenskan, the top division of Swedish football, and play home matches at the Eleda S ...

with 2–0 away in

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in Malmö in the last round of

. This was the second time in a row they had to wait 26 years between titles. On 8 November IFK Norrköping won

supercupen Svenska Supercupen, ''Swedish Super Cup'', was a one-off fixture in Swedish football played between the Allsvenskan champions and the winners of Svenska Cupen. The fixture was played in November, after the Allsvenskan season. In the event of a ...

against Swedish cup winners IFK Göteborg. The result was 3–0 after a dominating performance from the reigning Swedish champions.

Rivalries

The club used to have a fierce rivalry with

IK Sleipner Idrottsklubben Sleipner is a sports club in Norrköping, Sweden; the main sports are football and ten-pin bowling. It was founded in 1903, and named after the deity Odin's horse Sleipnir from Norse mythology. Currently, the club's senior men's t ...

, also from Norrköping, before Sleipner's fall from the higher divisions. Another historic rivalry is that against

Åtvidabergs FF Åtvidabergs Fotbollförening, also known simply as Åtvidabergs FF, Åtvidaberg, Åtvid or (especially locally) ÅFF, is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Åtvidaberg. The club is affiliated with Östergötlands ...

, also from the province of

Östergötland Östergötland (; English exonym: East Gothland) is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap'' in Swedish) in the south of Sweden. It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland and the Baltic Sea. In older English li ...

, which was especially tense in the 1970s and early 2010s. This rivalry has lost importance since Åtvidaberg were relegated from

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; ), also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan (, ) is a professional association football league in Sweden and the highest level of the Swedish football league system. Founded in 1924, it operates on a system of promotion and relegatio ...

and today Åtvidabergs FF play in Division 2 (4th tier). IFK Norrköping also maintains a rivalry with

; the fixtures between the clubs is sometimes known as "The Working Class Derby"

Players

First-team squad

Out on loan

Retired numbers

* 12 – Fans of the club

Winners of Guldbollen

*1947:

*1949: Knut Nordahl *1953: Bengt "Julle" Gustavsson *1957: Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson *1960: Torbjörn Jonsson *1961: Bengt "Zamora" Nyholm *1963: Harry Bild *1966:

Ove Kindvall Bengt Ove Kindvall (born 16 May 1943) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He started his career at IFK Norrköping, where he played until he joined Feyenoord in 1966 and became professional. The same year, he ...

*1968:

Björn Nordqvist Björn Axel Göte Nordqvist (born 6 October 1942) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender. A full international between 1963 and 1978, he won 115 caps for the Sweden national team and represented his country at th ...

*1990:

Tomas Brolin Per Tomas Brolin (; born 29 November 1969) is a Swedish former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward and midfielder. At the club level, he had a successful period with Parma AC, Par ...

*1992: Jan Eriksson

League top scorers

Allsvenskan

1944–45 (27 goals), 1945–46 (25 goals) and 1947–48 (18 goals) * Harry Bild 1956–57 (19 goals) * Henry "Putte" Källgren 1957–58 (27 goals) (shared with Bertil Johansson,

IFK Göteborg Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or Blåvitt, is a Swedish professional Football team, football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it ...

) *

1966 (20 goals) *

Jan Hellström Jan Erik "Janne" Hellström (born February 21, 1960) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a striker, most notably for IFK Norrköping. He won six caps for the Sweden national team between 1986 and 1989 and represented the Sweden Olympi ...

1989 (16 goals) *

Niclas Kindvall Bengt Niclas Kindvall (born 19 February 1967) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Career Kindvall was the 1994 Allsvenskan top scorer with IFK Norrköping, which won him a contract with Hamburger SV in the ...

1994 (23 goals) * Imad Khalili 2013 (15 goals) (eight goals scored for

Helsingborgs IF Helsingborgs Idrottsförening, commonly referred to as Helsingborgs IF, Helsingborg or (especially locally) HIF (), is a Swedish professional football club located in Helsingborg. They play in the Swedish second tier, Superettan, following releg ...

) *

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2015 (21 goals) *

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2017 (14 goals) (shared with

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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. Djurgårdens IF is an s ...

) * Christoffer Nyman 2020 (18 goals) *

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2021 (17 goals)

Superettan (Division II 1924/1925–1986 and Division I 1987–1999)

* Stefan Pettersson 1983 (17 goals) *

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2005 (17 goals) *

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2007 (18 goals)

Management

Technical staff

''As of 16 January 2025''

Honours

League

* Swedish Champions ** Winners (13): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1989, 2015 *

: ** Winners (12): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57,

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

** Runners-up (10): 1952–53, 1957–58,

1959 Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Superettan Superettan (; ) is an association football league and the second highest league in the Swedish football league system, league system of Swedish football, Swedish men's football. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and rel ...

: ** Winners (1):

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

** Runners-up (1):

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

* Mästerskapsserien: ** Runners-up (2):

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

Cups

Svenska Cupen Svenska cupen (, ), also known as the Swedish Cup in English, is a knockout cup competition in Swedish football and the main Swedish football cup. ''Svenska cupen'' usually refers to the men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also ...

: ** Winners (6):

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat. Events World War II will be ...

, 1968–69, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1993–94 ** Runners-up (5):

1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixt ...

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...

, 1971–72, 2016–17 *

Svenska Supercupen Svenska Supercupen, ''Swedish Super Cup'', was a one-off fixture in Swedish football played between the Allsvenskan champions and the winners of Svenska Cupen. The fixture was played in November, after the Allsvenskan season. In the event of a ...

: ** Winners (1):

IFK Norrköping in Europe

Records

*Most played games (

or Division I): : Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson, 321 games (1949–65) *Most league goals (

or Division I): : Henry "Putte" Källgren, 126 goals (1951–60) *Most spectators: : 32 234 against

, 7 June 1956 *Biggest victory (

or Division I): : 11–1 against

, 14 October 1945. *Biggest defeat (

or Division I): : 0 – 11 against

Örgryte IS Örgryte Idrottssällskap, commonly referred to as Örgryte IS, Örgryte () or (especially locally) ÖIS or Öis, is a Swedish sports club based in Gothenburg. It consists of four departments, namely bowling, football, athletics and wrestling. ...

, 6 April 1928 and

, 22 September 1929

Managerial history

List of IFK Norrköping managers (1905–present) * Alexander "Sandy" Tait (1905) * Fred Spiksley (1910) *

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(1921–22) *

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(1923–24) * Rudolf Haglund (1925–35) *

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(1936) * Vilgot Lindberg (1936–37) * Torsten Johansson (1937–38) * Bengt Flisberg (1938–41) * Rudolf Haglund (1941) * Lajos Czeizler (1942–48) *

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(1949) * Karl Adamek (1950–53) *

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(1954) * Karl Adamek (1955–57) * Vilmos Varszegi (1957–62) * Georg Ericson (1958–66) *

(1967–70) *

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(1971–72) *

Örjan Martinsson Örjan Martinsson (1 November 1936 – 28 February 1997) was a Swedish footballer who played as a forward. He made 20 appearances for the Sweden national team from 1960 to 1966. Honours IFK Norrköping * Allsvenskan: 1960, 1962, 1963 ...

(1973–74) * Bengt Gustavsson (1975–78) *

(1979–80) *

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(1981–82) * Lars-Göran Qwist (1983–84) *

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(1985–89) *

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(1990) *

Sanny Åslund John Sanny Åslund (born 29 August 1952) is a Swedish former Association football, football coach and former player. As a player, he represented Degerfors IF, AIK Fotboll, AIK, RCD Espanyol, Espanyol, and SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen during a ...

(1991–92) *

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(1993–94) *

(1995) * Tomas Nordahl (1995) * Colin Toal (1996–97) *

Olle Nordin Carl Jan Olof "Olle" Nordin (born 23 November 1949) is a Swedish former football coach and former player. He represented IFK Norrköping, IFK Sundsvall, and IFK Göteborg during a playing career that spanned between 1970 and 1980. A full intern ...

(1997–00) * Tor-Arne Fredheim (2001) *

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(2002) *

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(2002–03) * Stefan Hellberg (2004–05) * Mats Jingblad (2005–08) *

(2007–08) * Göran Bergort (2009–10) *

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(1 January 2011 – 23 June 2016) *

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(24 June 2016 – 19 December 2020) *

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(23 December 2020 – 11 July 2022) *

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(11 July 2022 – 8 August 2022) Caretaker *

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(8 August 2022 – present)

Affiliate clubs

IF Sylvia IF Sylvia is a Swedish football club based in Norrköping. The club, formed on 19 May 1922, plays in the fourth tier of Swedish football, Division 2. The club is affiliated to the Östergötlands Fotbollförbund. In the early years, the club wa ...

Husqvarna FF Husqvarna FF is a football club in Huskvarna, Sweden. The team is sponsored by the Husqvarna AB. History Husqvarna FF was founded on 3 February 1987 following the merger of the men's association football sections of Husqvarna IF and Huskvarna S ...

Officiellt: Husqvarna FF lånar Julius Lindgren
‚ svenskafans.com, 24 August 2017

Other sections

IFK Norrköping also maintains departments for

women's football Women's football most often refers to: * Women's association football Women's football may also refer to: * Women's gridiron football * Women's Australian rules football * Ladies' Gaelic football * Women's rugby league * Women's rugby union ...

, set up in 2009,

orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that involve using a map and compass to navigation, navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specia ...

bowling Bowling is a Throwing sports#Target sports, target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a bowling ball, ball toward Bowling pin, pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). Most references to ''bowling'' are ...

and

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 ...

. The bandy team played in Sweden's highest division in 1937. Part of the club was also an

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 ...

team which played in the seasons 1950/51 and 1955/56 in the highest Swedish division. The ice hockey teams of IFK and local rivals

were joined in 1967 to form IF IFK/IKS, known from 1973 forward as ''IK Vita Hästen'' ("Ice Hockey Club White Horse") which evolved into today's

HC Vita Hästen HC Vita Hästen is a Swedish hockey club, based in Norrköping, which was founded following the bankruptcy of a previous club called IK Vita Hästen. The team plays in HockeyTrean, the fifth tier of the Swedish ice hockey system, as of the 202 ...

Footnotes

References

External links

IFK Norrköping
nbsp;– official site
Peking Fanz
nbsp;– official supporter club site
IFK Norrköpings Supporter klubb
nbsp;– official supporter club site for seniors
gopeking.net
nbsp;– IFK Norrköpings oldest supporter site
Parkens vita hjältar
nbsp;– supporter site {{DEFAULTSORT:Norrkoping IFK Football clubs in Östergötland County Sports clubs and teams in Norrköping Allsvenskan clubs Association football clubs established in 1897 Bandy clubs established in 1897 1897 establishments in Sweden Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Svenska Cupen winners 19th-century establishments in Östergötland County