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IS Lyckans Soldater (full name Idrotssällskapet Lyckans Soldater, commonly abbreviated LS) are a now defunct Swedish sports club located in
Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...
, mostly remembered for its contribution for introducing
association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
to Sweden. The club was founded in 1883 but did not play football until 1888, and at that time the code played was
Swedish football Association football is the most popular sport in Sweden, with over 240,000 licensed players (approximately 56,000 women and 184,000 men) with another 240,000 youth players. There are around 3,200 active clubs fielding over 8,500 teams, whic ...
, not association football. They were then one of two teams in the first association football match played in Sweden in 1892, the other team being
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. ...
. The football section of the club merged with Göteborgs Velocipedklubb and Skridskosällskapet Norden to create
Göteborgs IF Göteborgs IF (full name Göteborgs Idrottsförbund) was a Swedish football club which was located in Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm ...
in 1903. Lyckans Soldater participated in the Gothenburg district series of
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 ...
in the winter of 1916–17.Eric Sköld (ed.): Boken om bandy, Uppsala: Bygd och Folk Förlag (1948), p. 318 (in Swedish)
Eric Lemming Eric Otto Valdemar Lemming (22 February 1880 – 5 June 1930) was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics, 1900, 1906 Summer Olympics, 1906, 1908 Summer Olympics, 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics, 1912 Olympics in ...
, seven-time Olympic medal winner, competed for the club in the first decade of the 20th century.


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