Malmö Fotbollförening (), commonly known as Malmö FF (), Malmö, or MFF (), are a

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team from

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, who compete in the

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, the highest level of women's football in Sweden. Formed on 26 November 2019 and affiliated with the Scania Football Association, Malmö FF are based in Malmö,

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History

On 7 September 1970 the board of Malmö FF took the decision to start a women's team as part of the main club. The team was called Malmö FF Dam – the word ''dam'' meaning lady – to distinguish the team from the men's division of the same club. In 1986 the club won the

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for the first time. The Division 1 was Sweden's highest division until 1988 when the

was formed. It took three seasons for the club to win the newly formed Damallsvenskan in 1990 and more success followed in 1991, 1993 and 1994. Malmö FF Dam would then finish as runners-up for seven consecutive seasons (from 1996 to 2002). In April 2007, Malmö FF Dam started a rebranding of the team, including a new team name, jerseys, and logo. The team was renamed LdB FC Malmö on 11 April 2007. This meant that the club fully withdrew from Malmö FF and became a club of its own. That club is now known as

FC Rosengård FC Rosengård (), known as Malmö FF Dam () until 2007 and later LdB FC Malmö until 2013, is a professional football club based in Malmö, Scania, Sweden. The team was established as Malmö FF Dam in 1970. It started out with playing 7 seasons ...

. On 26 November 2019, an extraordinary annual members meeting of Malmö FF voted in favour of reintroducing a women's section. A merger with

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was rejected and it was decided that the new club would apply for a place at the lowest level of women's football in Sweden, Division 4 Skåne Sydvästra, for the 2020 season. Subsequently, a head coach was hired and eighteen players were recruited, many of them from levels as high as Division 1, the third level of the league system.

Current squad

From reserve team

Management

Organisation

''As of 8 December 2020''

Technical staff

''As of 13 March 2023''

Honours

Elitettan Elitettan (, ) is the second highest division of Swedish women's football. Contested by 14 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Damallsvenskan The (; ), known as OBOS for sponsorship reasons, is the highest divisi ...

**''Winners'': 2024 *

Division 1 Södra Ettan Fotboll, or simply Ettan (), which also is its common name in everyday speech, is the third level in the Swedish football league system and consists of 32 Swedish football teams. It was formerly simply known as ''Division 1''. Division 1 ...

**''Winners'': 2023 * Division 2 Södra Götaland **''Winners'': 2022 * Division 3 Skåne Sydvästra **''Winners'': 2021 * Division 4 Skåne Sydvästra **''Winners'': 2020

Footnotes

External links

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MFF Support
– official supporter club site
Himmelriket
– supporter site
MFF-Familjen
– supporters' site (archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Malmo Ff 2019 establishments in Sweden Association football clubs established in 2019 Women's football clubs in Sweden Football clubs in Malmö Malmö FF 21st-century establishments in Skåne County