Villa Lidköping BK is a
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 ...
club in
Lidköping
Lidköping () is a locality and the seat of Lidköping Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had about
40,000 inhabitants in 2021.
It is situated on the southern shore of Lake Vänern and sometimes refers to itself as "Lidkö ...
i Sweden. The club was formed on 18 January 1934 as Villa BK on
Lockörn outside Lidköping, where the old club cottage still is. The club's name comes from the nearby
country estate Villa Giacomina.
Villa has played in the
Swedish championship finals seven times, losing 4 out of the 7 appearances in the years 1975, 1983, 2012 and 2016 before finally winning in 2019 and again in 2021, followed up by a third victory in 2024 and a fifth in 2025. Home games are played in
Sparbanken Lidköping Arena.
In October 2018, the club won its first
World Cup title. The women's team won the Swedish national championship for first time during the 2020–2021 season and again during the 2021–2022, 2022–2023 and 2023–2024 seasons.
The men's team won the
Swedish Cup in the years 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The women's team won the Swedish Cup in the years 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Squad
Honours
Domestic
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Swedish National Champions:
** Winner (3):
2019,
2021,
2024
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** Runners-up (5):
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
,
1983
1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...
,
2012
2012 was designated as:
*International Year of Cooperatives
*International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
Events January
*January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins.
* January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
,
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
,
2020
The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...
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Swedish Cup:
** Winner (6): 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
** Runners-up (1): 2008
International
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World Cup:
** Winner (1): 2018
** Runners-up (1):
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
References
External links
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Bandy clubs in Sweden
Bandy clubs established in 1934
1934 establishments in Sweden
Sport in Lidköping
Sports clubs and teams in Västra Götaland County
20th-century establishments in Skaraborg County