Idrottsklubben Göta, commonly known as IK Göta, is a sports club in Stockholm, now active in
ice hockey
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, that was successful in several sports such as
athletics
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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 ...
,
football
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,
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 ...
,
field hockey
Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...
,
ice hockey
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, 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 ...
during the 20th century. Of them, nine Swedish championships in men's ice hockey, including the
inaugural 1922 edition, ranks fourth among Swedish teams after
Djurgården
Djurgården ( or ) or, more officially, , is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open-air museum Skansen, the small resident ...
,
Brynäs and
Färjestad.
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]
History
IK Göta was founded on 1 October 1900.[ The club had its first base att Odengatan in ]Stockholm
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and practiced gymnastics.[ It had been founded by military personnel from Göta Life Guards. ]Cross-country skiing
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was introduced in the year of founding.[ By the end of their first year, they had 19 members.][ The club then broadened their range of activities to include ]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 ...
and football
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and other sports.[
]Ernst Wide
Ernst Theodor Wide (9 November 1888 – 8 April 1950) was a Swedish runner. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics
The 1912 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad () and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an ...
won the national championship title on 800 metres and 1500 metres in 1909, and then continued to win three more titles in the 800 metres event and four more in the 1500 metres event in the following years until 1914. In 1918, IK Göta started 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 ...
.[ Starting in 1919, ]Sven Lundgren
Sven Emil Lundgren (29 September 1896 – 18 June 1960) was a Swedish middle-distance runner who competed in the 800 m, 1500 and 3000 m events at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics.
Career
Lundgren had his best results at the Olympic Games in 1920, ...
, won the same national title events as Wide a total of eight times.
The 1920s saw the introduction of ice hockey
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in Sweden and the club was pioneers of the sport.[ On 1 February 1921, IK Göta played the second ice hockey match in Sweden, when they played ]Berliner Schlittschuhclub
Berliner Schlittschuhclub, also known as Berliner SC or BSchC, is an ice hockey club based in Berlin, Germany. They currently play in the Landesliga (ice hockey), Landesliga, the fifth and lowest tier in their region. The ice hockey section was fou ...
and won 2–1.[ A couple of weeks later, on 17 February 1921, IK Göta played in the first ice hockey match in between two Swedish team, when they beat ]IFK Stockholm
IFK Stockholm is a multi-sports club in Stockholm, Sweden. It is most known for its football team.
Background
The club was formed 1 February 1895 as IF Kamraterna (IFK) by two young students, Louis Zettersten and Pehr Ehnemark, and was the first ...
, 13–0.[ They won the first national ice hockey championship against ]Hammarby IF
Hammarby Idrottsförening ("Hammarby Sports Club"), commonly known as Hammarby IF or simply Hammarby ( or, especially locally, ), is a Swedish sports club located in Stockholm, with a number of member organizations active in a variety of differ ...
with a score of 6-0 the in 1922. IK Göta then won the following two championships as well as four in row from 1927 to 1930.[ The club took the initiative to form the ]Swedish Ice Hockey Association
The Swedish Ice Hockey Association () in Swedish, is an association of Swedish ice hockey clubs. It was established in Stockholm on 17 November 1922 by representatives from seven clubs. Before then, organized ice hockey in Sweden had been admi ...
in 1922 together with AIK, IF Linnéa
IF Linnéa was a sports club in Stockholm, which was subsequently split into two clubs, IF Linnéa Friidrott and IF Linnéa Boxning. IF Linnéa Friidrott was the section for athletics and IF Linnéa Boxning was the section for boxing.
IF Linnéa ...
, Hammarby IF
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, Nacka SK
{{for, current Nacka hockey club, Nacka HK
Nacka SK was a Swedish sports club based in the Stockholm suburb of Nacka. The club was notable in bandy but particularly in ice hockey
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, and Mariebergs IK
Mariebergs IK was a Swedish sport club which in Stockholm. It was founded in 1902, mainly by students of Norra Latin living in Marieberg, among them brothers Rolf and S. Smedmark.
The club competed in several sports, bandy was dropped in 19 ...
.
In 1925, Sten Pettersson
Sten Karl Leopold "Sten-Pelle" Pettersson (11 September 1902 – 1 June 1984) was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed in sprint and hurdling events. He competed at the 1924, 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics in the 110 and 400 m hurdles ...
won the national titles in 100 metres
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, 200 metres
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, 110 metres hurdles
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, 400 metres hurdles
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On a ...
, 4 × 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...
, and 4 × 400 metres relay
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during the Swedish Athletics Championships
The Swedish Athletics Championships () is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Swedish Athletics Association, which serves as the national championship for the sport in Sweden.
History
The first Swedish Athletics Champio ...
as well as the standing high jump
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during the indoor championship.
During the 1920, IK Göta also won the national bandy championship in 1925, 1927, 1928, and 1929.[ In bandy, they played in the first year of bandy league system in Sweden, 1930–31 – IK Göta entered in ]Division 1 Södra
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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 ...
, IF Göta
IF Göta is a sports club in Karlstad, Sweden, founded in 1904. In the beginning, the club practised football and athletics. The club used to have a successful team in bandy, becoming Swedish champions six times, but now is only concentrated on a ...
, 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
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 ...
, 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
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, and Örebro SK
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and finished 2nd.
In 1927, IK Göta took up handball
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, when IF Stefaniterna, who were practicing handball and football, joined the club.[ In handball, IK Göta played in top-tier ]Allsvenskan
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Founded in 1924, it operates on a system of promotion and relegatio ...
before dropping the sport in 1936, only to restart it the year after.[ In football, the club played in Stockholmsserien, Klass I, from 1928 to 1933. A women's bandy team was started in 1929.][ In 1930, Maj Jacobsson won the national titles in 80 metres, ]200 metres
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, 80 metres hurdles
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Since the 1972 Summer Olympics, the event has been permanently replaced by the 100 metre hurdles.
Masters athletics
The distance, with different sp ...
, long jump
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, standing long jump
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and 4 × 80 metres relay at the Swedish Women's Athletics Championships.
In 1939 the club bought a cabin by the lake Fjäturen.[ They won the 1940 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship, their eighth.][ Up until 1940, the club had won 119 national championship titles in athletics.][ They had also won the Mästerskapsstandaret for best club at the ]Swedish Athletics Championships
The Swedish Athletics Championships () is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Swedish Athletics Association, which serves as the national championship for the sport in Sweden.
History
The first Swedish Athletics Champio ...
four times, in 1924, 1925, 1928, and 1930.[ Men's bandy was dropped in 1940.] During the 1940s, the women's bandy team played in a series in Vasaparken in Stockholm together with KSK Artemis, Djurgårdens IF
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, and Föreningen GCI.
They won the 1948 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship, their ninth.[ Ten years later, in 1958, the ice hockey team was relegated from the top-tier Division 1 This was the end of a total of 34 seasons in the highest league.][ In 1948, the club hut at Fjäturen, ''Götagården'', burnt down.]
The women's bandy team won the inaugural national championship title in 1973, and the followed up with six consecutive titles from 1976 to 1981, and then again won in 1983. Göta had also won the first Riksmästerskap bandy final in 1971 before it became a nation championship.[
The women's field hockey team of IK Göta won the national championships titles in 1982, 1985, and 1986.]
The ice hockey section merged with Tranebergs IF Tranebergs IF was a professional ice hockey team based in Traneberg, Sweden
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in 2007, forming junior and senior teams under the name Göta Traneberg IK.[ This is IK Göta's only active sport. The section operates kids, junior and senior ice hockey teams.
Göta Traneberg currently plays in ]Hockeytvåan
Hockeytvåan is the fourth tier of ice hockey in Sweden. It previously operated as the second-level league from 1941 to 1975, and the third-level league from 1975 to 1999.
Format
The league is divided into 11 regional groups. The top teams in D ...
Östra, the fourth tier of ice hockey in Sweden
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.
The club has also been active in bowling
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and rugby.[
]
Emblem and colours
The team's logotype is a winged foot. IK Göta uses grey uniforms.[ Hence they were nicknamed ''de stålgrå'' (). The ice hockey team now plays in red.][
]
Venues
The first site the team competed/played at was the Olympic Stadium
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in Stockholm.
A few years later the team's site were moved to nearby Östermalms IP
Östermalms IP is a sports ground located in the Östermalm district of Stockholm, Sweden. Completed in 1906, the facility played host to several sports during the 1912 Summer Olympics. These sports included equestrian, fencing (including the part ...
.
The ice hockey team relocated in the mid 1970s, due to less youths in central Stockholm, to the Bromma area, a Stockholm suburb within the city limits.
The idea was to be able to grow the team with more junior teams.
Honours
Bandy
* Swedish champions:
** Winners (4): 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929
Ice hockey
* Swedish champions:
** Winners (9): 1922, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1940, 1948
References
Citations
Works cited
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External links
IK Göta homepage
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1900 establishments in Sweden
Athletics clubs in Sweden
Bandy clubs established in 1900
Cross-country skiing clubs in Sweden
Defunct bandy clubs in Sweden
Field hockey clubs
Football clubs in Stockholm
Gymnastics clubs in Sweden
Handball clubs in Sweden
Ice hockey teams in Stockholm
Multi-sport clubs in Sweden
Orienteering clubs in Sweden
Rugby football teams
Sports clubs and teams in Stockholm
Women's football clubs in Sweden
1900s establishments in Stockholm