Sollefteå GIF is a Swedish

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

club located in

Sollefteå Sollefteå () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Sollefteå Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden. History The earliest written account on Sollefteå is found in a script dating back to 1270. During this time the name ...

Background

The club was founded in 1898 catering for a variety of sports. From 1905 the club gradually developed its football section. In the 1953/54 season the club played in Division 2

Norrland Norrland (, , originally ''Norrlanden'', meaning 'the Northlands') is the northernmost, largest and least populated of the three traditional lands of Sweden, consisting of nine provinces. Although Norrland does not serve any administrative p ...

for the first time. This achievement was repeated in 1955/56 and 1961. In 2010 the club is again playing in Division 2 Norrland but this now represents fourth tier football in the

Swedish football league system The Swedish football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. ...

. The club is affiliated to the Ångermanlands Fotbollförbund.

Season to season

Attendances

In recent seasons Sollefteå GIF have had the following average attendances:

External links

Sollefteå GIF
nbsp;– official site

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Solleftea GIF Sport in Sollefteå Football clubs in Västernorrland County Sports clubs and teams established in 1898 Association football clubs established in 1905 1898 establishments in Sweden 19th-century establishments in Västernorrland County