Kållered SK is a Swedish

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club located in

Kållered Kållered is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and a township situated in Mölndal Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 7,456 inhabitants in 2010. Geographically, Kållered is mainly a Dell (landform), dell, surrounded by ridges and ...

Mölndal Municipality Mölndal Municipality (, semi-officially ) is a municipality in Västra Götaland in western Sweden, just south of Gothenburg. Its seat is located in Mölndal, which lies within the Gothenburg urban area, and the whole municipality is part of ...

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Background

Kållered SK is a sports club from Kållered and was formed on 9 December 1938. The club is also known as Kållereds SK and specialises in

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and

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. In the beginning the club only played bandy and was therefore named Kålleryds Bandyklubb. However other sports were quickly taken up, including athletics and orienteering, and on 3 March 1939 the club changed its name to Kållereds Sportklubb. KSK is a now a rather large club playing in many different age groups and classes. Since their foundation Kållered SK has participated mainly in the middle and lower divisions of the

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. In the 2010 season the club played in Division 3 Mellersta Götaland, which is the fifth tier of Swedish football, and has won promotion to Division 2 via the play-offs drawing 2–2 on aggregate with

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but winning on away goals. This is the first time that KSK has reached Division 2. They play their home matches at the Kållereds IP in Kållered. Kållered SK are affiliated to the

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Season to season

Attendances

In recent seasons Kållered SK have had the following average attendances:

Footnotes

External links

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