IF Göta is a sports club in

Karlstad Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 67,122 inhabitants in 2020 with 97,233 inhabitan ...

, Sweden, founded in 1904. In the beginning, the club practised football and athletics. The club used to have a successful team in

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, becoming Swedish champions six times, but now is only concentrated on

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. The bandy department was merged with

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to form BS BolticGöta. The club is sometimes unofficially called ''IF Karlstad-Göta'' to avoid confusion with the Stockholm-based sports club

IK Göta Idrottsklubben Göta, commonly known as IK Göta, is a sports club in Stockholm, now active in ice hockey, that was successful in several sports such as sport of athletics, athletics, association football, football, handball, field hockey, ice h ...

History

In the first year of bandy league system in Sweden, 1930–31, Göta entered in

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together with

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 ...

IFK Strängnäs IFK Strängnäs is a sports club in Strängnäs, Sweden, established in 1899. The club runs track and field athletics, handball, disabled sports, orienteering, earlier even bandy. The men's bandy team played in the Swedish top division in 1931 and ...

, IFK Uppsala,

Linköpings AIK Linköpings AIK is a sports club in Linköping, Sweden, established on 22 October 1908. The club runs orienteering, earlier even bandy and soccer. The men's bandy team played in the Swedish top division in 1931. and also reached three semifinals wh ...

Nässjö IF Nässjö IF, full name ''Nässjö Idrottsförening'', is a sports club in Nässjö, Sweden, mostly active with playing bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, ice skates on ...

, and

Örebro SK Örebro Sportklubb, more commonly known as Örebro SK, Örebro or (especially locally) ÖSK, is a Swedish professional football club based in Örebro. The club are affiliated to Örebro Läns Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Behrn ...

and finished 1st.

Honours

Domestic

* Swedish Champions: ** Winners (3): 1932, 1935, 1937 ** Runners-up (4): 1931, 1933, 1952, 1967

References

1904 establishments in Sweden Defunct bandy clubs in Sweden Bandy clubs established in 1904 Sport in Karlstad Athletics clubs in Sweden Multi-sport clubs in Sweden Sports clubs and teams in Värmland County 20th-century establishments in Värmland County {{bandy-stub