Järnkaminerna (lit. The Iron Stoves) is the largest official supporter club of the sports club

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. Name The club is nam ...

. Järnkaminerna is also a nickname for the sports club itself. A common shortened form of the supporters club Järnkaminerna is JK.

History

The nickname derives from the 1950s when Djurgårdens IF's football division was renowned for their physique and physical training as well as their rough style of play on the pitch. The stripes of the

Djurgården Djurgården ( or ) or, more officially, ''Kungliga Djurgården'' (), 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 museu ...

jersey, particularly the away colors of blue and dark red, looked somewhat similar to an old-style iron stove, the blue being the iron slats and the red the glow of the fire. After this period the team became commonly known as "Järnkaminerna" (''The Iron Stoves''). The nickname has remained arguably the most popular nickname for

, its players and supporters, together with "the blue stripes", until today. During the 1970s younger supporters organized themselves and in 1981 they formed "Blue Saints", although the first supporters club of Djurgården was DIF Supporters Club, established in 1947. Due to bad publicity, after numerous violent clashes, "Blue Saints" reformed, and in 1997 adopted the name "Järnkaminerna" and undertook an effort to whitewash the supporters club's name. Today "Järnkaminerna" are one of Sweden's largest supporters clubs in numbers, and smaller sections are today established outside of Stockholm.

References

External links

Official Home Järnkaminerna
Djurgårdens IF Fotboll Swedish football supporters' associations {{Sweden-footyclub-stub