football club
Malmö Fotbollförening, normally known as Malmö FF, Malmö, or MFF, is a professional football club and the most successful football club in Sweden in terms of trophies won. [ 2 ] Formed in 1910 and affiliated with the Scania Football Association, Malmö FF are based at Eleda Stadion in Malmö, Scania. [ 3 ] The club have won a read 22 swedish championship titles and the most national cup titles with 14. [ 4 ] [ A ]
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Malmö FF won their first championship in 1944. [ 5 ] The powerhouse of swedish football in holocene years, Malmö FF besides saw glory in the 1970s, winning five swedish championships and four Svenska Cupen titles. Malmö FF remains the only club from the Nordic countries to have reached the concluding of the european Cup, the harbinger of the UEFA Champions League. Malmö FF were runner-up in the 1979 european Champions Cup final examination, which they lost 1–0 to English club Nottingham Forest. [ 6 ] For this feat, Malmö FF were awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. [ 7 ] [ 6 ] Malmö FF is besides the only Nordic club to have been represented at the Intercontinental Cup ( succeeded by FIFA Club World Cup ) in which they competed for the 1979 title. [ 8 ] Malmö FF is the leader of the overall Allsvenskan table maratontabellen, [ 9 ] where they are the club that holds both the record of scoring the most goals deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as the record of winning the most matches. In recent years the team qualified for tree back-to-back group stages of the Champions League in 2014, 2015 and 2021. In 2019 and 2020, Malmö FF played in the hard stages of the UEFA Europa League. The cabaret color, reflected in their crown and kit, are sky blue and white, with sky aristocratic shirts, white shorts and flip blue socks being the club ‘s traditional kit semblance. The independent rivals of the clubhouse are chap regional rivals Helsingborg, historical domestic equal IFK Göteborg and historically local Division 2 Södra Götaland side IFK Malmö. [ 10 ] The MFF Support are their official sports fan clubhouse. [ 11 ] The club name is literally translated into English as the “ Malmö Football Association ” .
history [edit ]
early years [edit ]
Malmö IP, the beginning home stadium for the club between 1910 and 1957 The club arose from a municipal enterprise in 1905 to encourage new people in Malmö to play unionize football. One of the young person teams, the Bollklubben Idrott, besides known merely as BK Idrott, was a predecessor to the Malmö FF. BK Idrott joined the newly created football department of the IFK Malmö in 1909, but soon left because of issues between the two clubs. On 24 February 1910 the 19 members of the BK Idrott founded the Malmö FF ; the first chair was Werner Mårtensson. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The baseball club spent its first ten years in local and regional divisions as there was no official national league rival, playing the majority of their matches in the city division called the Malmömästerskapen. They besides competed in regional competitions in Scania, and played matches against danish clubs. In 1916 the Malmö FF reached the final of the Scanian regional contest ( Distriktsmästerskapen ) for the first time, playing against rival the Helsingborgs IF but losing 3–4. [ 14 ] The club defeated local rival the IFK Malmö three times during the temper, and therefore earned the unofficial but much desired title of Malmö ‘s best football golf club. [ 15 ] In 1917 the Malmö FF competed in the Svenska Mästerskapet for the first gear clock time, a cup tournament for the championship of swedish champions, but lost their first match in the second qualify round off 4–1 against the IFK Malmö. The clubhouse continued to play in the cup until 1922, reaching the quarter-finals in 1920 when they were knocked out by the Landskrona BoIS. The cup was finally discontinued and the title of swedish champions was given to the winners of the Allsvenskan which was first created for the 1924–25 season. [ 16 ] [ A ] In 1920 the Swedish Football Association invited Swedish football clubs to compete in official national competitions. Malmö FF earned a place in the Division 2 Sydsvenska Serien. They won this division in the foremost season, and were promoted to the Svenska Serien Västra, the highest flush of competition in Sweden at the prison term. however, they were relegated after a single season, and found themselves back in the Sydsvenska Serien for about a ten until they again achieved promotion to the Allsvenskan, in 1931. [ 17 ]
First years in the Allsvenskan and early achievements [edit ]
The Malmö FF team of 1943–44 The club achieved mid-table league positions for two seasons, but was relegated in 1934 as a penalty for breaking amateur regulations. The club had paid their players a little sum of money for each game. Although against the rules, this was common at the time ; Malmö FF was the lone club to show it in the account records. In summation to relegation to Division 2, the club suffered bans for the integral control panel of directors and twenty-six players. The adaptation of events told by Malmö FF and local press suggests that local equal, IFK Malmö, had reported the misdemeanor to the Swedish Football Association. This impression has contributed to the longstanding competitive tensions between the clubs. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The club made their way binding to the Allsvenskan in 1937 after two seasons in the Division 2. In the same year Eric Persson was elected as president after being secretary since 1929, and held the position until 1974. Persson is regarded by club leaders and fans as the most important person in the baseball club ‘s history, as he turned the golf club professional in the 1970s. Under his leadership the club went from being titleless in 1937 to holding ten swedish championships by the end of the 1974 season. [ 21 ] In 1939 the baseball club reached its highest position so far, third place in the Allsvenskan, nine points behind champions the IF Elfsborg. Malmö FF ‘s first swedish championship came in 1944, when the club won the penult game of the season against AIK before 36,000 spectators at the Råsunda. The end game of the temper was gain 7–0 against Halmstad BK. [ 22 ] The follow nine seasons, Malmö FF finished in the acme three in the league. The club won the swedish Championship in 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1953, and were runners-up in 1946, 1948 and 1952. The baseball club besides won the Svenska Cupen in 1944, 1946, 1947, 1951 and 1953, and finished as runner-up in 1945. Between 6 May 1949 and 1 June 1951, the team were unbeaten in 49 matches, of which 23 were an unplowed mottle of victories. [ 23 ]
unseasoned players in the 1960s The club finished as runner-up in the Allsvenskan twice more, in 1956 and 1957. The pursue year the club left the Malmö IP for the Malmö Stadion, which had been built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and was to host the golf club for 50 years. In 1964 Malmö FF contracted spanish coach Antonio Durán ; this was the first of a series of changes that led to the most successful era in the club ‘s history. Young talents such as Lars Granström and Bo Larsson emerged during the early 1960s and would prove to be crucial ingredients in the success that would come in the 1970s. The club finished second in 1964 but went on to win their one-sixth swedish championship in 1965, when Bo Larsson scored 28 goals to finish as the league ‘s top finish scorekeeper. The Malmö FF once again won the Allsvenskan in 1967, after a less successful class in 1966. The club ‘s young players, american samoa well as talents bought in from neighbouring clubs in Scania in 1967, became a team that systematically finished in the exceed three in the Allsvenskan. [ 24 ]
successful 1970s, european Cup 1979, 1980s and 1990s [edit ]
After finishing as runner-up in Allsvenskan for the final two years of the 1960s, Malmö FF started the most successful ten of their history with a swedish championship in 1970. The golf club won Allsvenskan in 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975 and 1977 arsenic well as Svenska Cupen in 1976 and 1978. The 1977 Allsvenskan victory qualified the club for the 1978–79 european Cup, and after victories against AS Monaco, Dynamo Kyiv, Wisła Kraków and Austria Wien, Malmö FF reached the final of the contest, which was played at the Olympiastadion in Munich against Nottingham Forest. Trevor Francis, who scored the only goal of the match, won it 1–0 for Nottingham Forest. Nevertheless, the 1979 european Cup run is the biggest achiever in the history of Malmö FF. [ 25 ] The team were given the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal the like year, awarded for the most meaning swedish sporting accomplishment of the year, for their accomplishment in the european Cup. [ 7 ]
Malmö Stadion, the home stadium for the club between 1958 and 2008 much of the success during the 1970s was due to raw tactics and training methods brought to the club by Englishman Bob Houghton, who managed the cabaret between 1974 and 1980. Eric Persson was succeeded as chair in 1974 by Hans Cavalli-Björkman. After the team performed respectably under managers Keith Blunt and Tord Grip in the early 1980s, Roy Hodgson took over in 1985. Roy Hodgson led Malmö FF to two swedish Championships in 1986 and 1988, and the club won Allsvenskan five years in a row between 1985 and 1989. At the time, the backing was decided by play-offs between the best teams after the end of the regular season ; this agreement was in position from 1982 until 1992. The club reached the play-off final four times between 1986 and 1989 but only managed to win the final twice. apart from Allsvenskan and Swedish Championships, Malmö FF won Svenska Cupen in 1984, 1986 and 1989. [ 26 ] other than finishing as runner-up in Allsvenskan in 1996, the team did not excel in the 1990s, as the club failed to win Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen throughout the integral ten. The 1990s ended with relegation from Allsvenskan in 1999. Hans Cavalli-Björkman was succeeded as chair by Bengt Madsen in 1999, and erstwhile musician Hasse Borg was contracted as Director of Sport. These operational changes, american samoa well as the emergence of youthful endowment Zlatan Ibrahimović, led to the return to Allsvenskan in 2001. Ibrahimović rose to fame and became an important player in Malmö FF ‘s campaign to return to the top league. He was late sold to Ajax in 2001, before playing for several european clubs in Italy ‘s Serie A, FC Barcelona in Spain ‘s La Liga, Paris Saint-Germain in France ‘s Ligue 1, Manchester United F.C. in England ‘s Premier League, LA Galaxy in the MLS, and AC Milan again where he presently plays. [ 27 ]
Start of the 2000s to the present [edit ]
Opening game at Stadion The tax return to Allsvenskan was the start of the successful early 2000s, under the management of Tom Prahl, when the club finished in the top three times in a quarrel. In 2004, it won Allsvenskan, the club ‘s fifteenth swedish Championship. In 2005, the club reached the stopping point modification cycle for the UEFA Champions League but were defeated by FC Thun. Successful patron ferment and actor sales besides made Malmö FF the richest golf club in Sweden, a position still held since 2013. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] This position was further cemented by the consecutive Champions League group stage appearances the two following years. [ 30 ] Malmö FF moved from Malmö Stadion to Eleda Stadion in 2009, a stadium built wholly for football and located adjacent to the old one. [ 31 ] In 2009, Madsen announced that he would step down as chair, and was replaced by Håkan Jeppsson early the pursue year. [ 32 ] In 2010, the club marked their hundredth anniversary with many celebratory events at the beginning of the season. On the sidereal day of the club ‘s hundredth anniversary in 2010, the Swedish football magazine Offside declared Malmö FF to be the greatest football club in swedish history. [ 33 ] The season became a great achiever as the clubhouse won Allsvenskan for the nineteenth time and became swedish champions for the one-sixteenth clock. [ 34 ] Unlike in 2004, these successes were achieved without any major transfers before the season, and with a team consisting by and large of younger players. [ 35 ] In October 2013, Malmö FF won their seventeenth swedish championship and 20th Allsvenskan championship in the penultimate round of the league away from home plate. similar to 2010, the claim was the resultant role of a new police squad. The average age of the police squad, 23.8 years, was the youngest team to become champions since the begin of the twenty-first century. [ 36 ] The watch year Malmö FF qualified for the group stagecoach of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League by beating Ventspils, Sparta Prague and Red Bull Salzburg in the modification rounds. [ 37 ] This was the beginning time the golf club qualified for the competition proper since the re-branding from the european Cup in the 1992–93 season and the first time since the 2000–01 season that a swedish club qualified. In the follow months Malmö FF defended their league style, winning their eighteenth swedish backing and 21st Allsvenskan style. [ 38 ] This was the beginning time a baseball club defended the Allsvenskan deed since the 2003 temper. The 2015 temper saw Malmö FF failing to retaining the title and missing out on the top-four for the first time since 2009. however, the club managed to qualify once again to the group stages of the UEFA Champions League in the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League version, beating Žalgiris Vilnius, Red Bull Salzburg and Celtic FC in qualifiers. In October 2016, Malmö FF won their nineteenth swedish championship and 22nd Allsvenskan title. [ 39 ] The championship was Malmö FF ‘s third in the bridge of four years. This resulted in the club surpassing IFK Göteborg in terms of swedish backing titles, indisputably becoming the most successful swedish football club of all clock. Malmö FF is a dominant storm in Sweden. As of the conclusion of the 2021 Allsvenskan season, the club are the leaders of the overall Allsvenskan board maratontabellen. [ 9 ] Malmö FF are besides the record holders for the total number of swedish championships, Allsvenskan titles and Svenska Cupen titles. [ 5 ] [ 40 ]
Colours and cap [edit ]
Because of the golf club colors, sky blue and ashen, the club is frequently known by the nicknames Di blåe ( Scanian : The Blues ) and Himmelsblått ( The Sky Blues ). The home kit is azure shirts, white shorts, and azure socks. The aside denude is black. respective alternative kits have been used for european play such as an all-white kit introduced in the 1950s, and re-used for the 2011 and 2012 seasons, and all-black kits with azure and fortunate trimmings were used for the european campaigns in 2005 and 2013. [ 41 ]
Kit development [edit ]
        Home kit for the 1910 season |
 Home kit between 1910 and 1920 |
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The club colours have not always been flip gloomy. The predecessor club BK Idrott wore gloomy and white striped shirts and white shorts, and this kit out was still used for the first six months of 1910 after Malmö FF was founded. This was late changed to loss and blank striped shirts and black shorts to show that Malmö FF was a newly, freelancer club. This color combination has on occasion been used in modern times as the away kit out. The show azure kit was introduced in 1920. [ 42 ] Since 2010 a belittled Scanian flag is featured on the back of the shirt equitable below the neck. [ 43 ]
Crest evolution [edit ]
1910
1920
1920s
The peak of Malmö FF consists of a carapace with two upright azure fields on the sides, and one erect blank airfield in the middle. Underneath the carapace is “ Malmö FF ” spelled out in azure letters with a azure star under the text. In the peak area of the shield is a white horizontal field over the three upright fields. The abbreviation of the golf club diagnose “ MFF ” is spelled out with azure letters in this field. On circus tent of the shield are five tower-like extensions of the white field. The present harbor crest made its debut on the shirt in the 1940s. [ 44 ] There were other crests before this but they were never featured on the shirt. While the first cap was black and white, the second gear cap was red and white in accord with the club ‘s independent colours between 1910 and 1920. [ 41 ] In the original shield logo the full golf club name and azure star topology beneath the shield were not featured, they were late added when club chair Eric Persson discovered while afield that people had fuss identifying what city the golf club came from just by looking at the clubhouse peak. For the hundredth anniversary of the cabaret in 2010, the years 1910 and 2010 were featured on each side of the harbor on a azure ribbon behind the shield. [ 43 ]
Stars above the crown [edit ]
Malmö FF is the only cabaret in Sweden to have the honor of wearing two stars above its crest, representing 20-29 domestic backing titles. The stars are only featured on equal shirts and are not a part of the official crown .
Malmö ‘s kit is manufactured by Puma, who besides sponsor the club. consequently, respective Puma products are sold in the club ‘s memento shop at Eleda Stadion. [ 45 ] The first patron to appear on Malmö FF ‘s new jersey was local shipyard company Kockums in 1976, and since 1981 at least one sponsor logo has appeared on the golf club ‘s kits. In the mid-1990s it became platitude for swedish clubs to have several shirt sponsors. Malmö FF was no exception, and this was the case until 2010 when the club returned to having entirely one presenter logo on their kit out .
Supporters [edit ]
Fans of Malmö FF are called MFF:are ( the bible is the same in singular and plural ). Malmö FF has respective fan clubs, of which the largest is the official fan club MFF Support, founded in 1992. MFF Support describes itself as “ a non-profit and non-political arrangement working against ferocity and racism ”. [ 11 ] The chair of MFF Support is Thelma Ernst. [ 49 ] There are besides several smaller independent athletic supporter groups. The most big of these is Supras Malmö, which was founded in 2003 by a alliance of smaller ultras groups and devoted fans. [ 50 ] The name “ Supras ” is derived from the words supporters and ultras – the latter indicate that the group is inspired by a fan culture with roots in southern Europe. Supras Malmö is the most visible group in the main patron stand at Eleda Stadion, marking its presence with banners, flags and stage dancing. Another group with similar goals is Rex Scania. MFF Tifosi 96 ( MT96 ) is a network of supporters creating tifos for special occasions and authoritative games. [ 51 ] Malmösystrar ( Sisters of Malmö ) is the largest female garter faction in Europe with over 200 members. [ 52 ] The Malmö FF supporters are ill-famed for their ability to create a alert atmosphere and besides hold the phonograph record of the highest sound degree measured in Allsvenskan with 127 decibel in a game in 2016 versus IFK Göteborg .
Rivalries [edit ]
Because of geographic proximity, minor rivalries exist with Trelleborgs FF and Landskrona BoIS, which are both besides located in Scania. [ 10 ] The main rivals of the club are Helsingborgs IF, IFK Göteborg and IFK Malmö. The competition between Malmö FF and Helsingborgs IF has existed since Malmö FF were promoted up to Allsvenskan in the 1930s, and is primarily geographic, since both teams are from Scania in southern Sweden. The competition with IFK Göteborg relates more to title clashes ; the two are the most successful clubs in swedish football history and the entirely two to have appeared in european cup finals, IFK Göteborg in the UEFA Cup in 1982 and 1987 and Malmö FF in the european Cup in 1979. [ 10 ] The competition with IFK Malmö is both geographic and historical. The two clubs come from the like city and used to play at the same stadium in the early twentieth hundred. The presuppose actions of display panel members of IFK Malmö in 1933, revealing Malmö FF ‘s breaches of amateurish football rules to the Swedish Football Association, further contribute to the competitive tensions between the two clubs. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] IFK Malmö have not played in Allsvenskan since 1962 ; frankincense matches between the two sides are rare. [ 53 ]
median attendances [edit ]
- As of 16 December 2019[54]
Malmö FF are well known for their boastfully average attendance. [ 55 ] average attendances at Malmö FF ‘s home matches in Allsvenskan and european competitions for the last ten seasons running .
| Season | Competition | Capacity | Matches | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | UEFA Champions League | 20,500 | 3 | 46,916 | 19,084 | 12,501 | 15,639 |
| 2011–12 | UEFA Europa League | 3 | 26,900 | 10,802 | 7,632 | 8,967 | |
| 2013–14 | UEFA Europa League | 3 | 25,855 | 11,538 | 5,689 | 8,618 | |
| 2014–15 | UEFA Champions League | 6 | 110,014 | 20,500 | 8,831 | 18,336 | |
| 2015–16 | UEFA Champions League | 6 | 113,958 | 20,500 | 12,436 | 18,993 | |
| 2017–18 | UEFA Champions League | 1 | 20,058 | 20,058 | 20,058 | 20,058 | |
| 2018–19 | UEFA Champions League | 3 | 45,985 | 18,153 | 10,623 | 15,328 | |
| 2018–19 | UEFA Europa League | 5 | 82,692 | 20,312 | 11,487 | 16,538 | |
| 2019–20 | UEFA Europa League | 8 | 125,471 | 20,500 | 8,667 | 15,684 |
Stadia [edit ]
Malmö FF ‘s first stadium was Malmö IP, which was shared with arch-rivals IFK Malmö. The team played here from the establish of the club in 1910, until 1958. The stadium still exists nowadays, albeit with lower capacity, and is now used by women ‘s team FC Rosengård, who were previously the women ‘s department of Malmö FF. capacity in 2012 is 7,600, but attendances were normally much higher when Malmö FF played there. For the stopping point temper in 1957, the average attendance was 15,500. The baseball club ‘s commemorate attendance at Malmö IP is 22,436 against Helsingborgs IF on 1 June 1956. [ 58 ] The stadium is still considered a key depart of the club ‘s history, as it was hera that the club were founded, played their first 47 seasons, and won five swedish championships. [ 59 ] A new stadium was constructed in Malmö after Sweden was awarded the 1958 FIFA World Cup – this saw the birth of Malmö Stadion. Malmö FF played their first season at the stadium in 1958. The first base time the club won the swedish championship at the stadium was in 1965. [ 58 ] An upper berth tier was added to the stadium in 1992. [ 60 ] The clubhouse enjoyed the most successful era of their history at this stadium, winning ten out of twenty dollar bill Swedish championships while based there. The stadium originally had a capability of 30,000 but this was lowered to 27,500 due to changes in safety regulations. The club ‘s record attendance at the stadium was 29,328 against Helsingborgs IF on 24 September 1967. [ 61 ] Following the 2004 victory in Allsvenskan, [ 62 ] plans were made to construct a new stadium. In July 2005, Malmö FF announced that cultivate was to begin on Eleda Stadion, designed for 18,000 seat spectators and 6,000 stand. The stadium can besides accommodate 21,000 as an all-seater for international and european games in which terrace is not allowed. construction started in 2007 and was finished in 2009. The new stadium is located adjacent to Malmö Stadion. Although there was however small-scale construction going on around the stadium at the clock, the stadium was inaugurated on 13 April 2009 with the foremost home plot of the 2009 season against Örgryte IS ; Malmö FF ‘s Labinot Harbuzi scored the inaugural goal in the 61st infinitesimal. [ 63 ] The first swedish championship won at the stadium occurred in 2010, when the clubhouse beat Mjällby AIF on 7 November in the final examination game of the season 2–0. attendance at this game set the stadium record of 24,148. [ 34 ] [ 64 ] Stadion is a UEFA category 4 rated stadium. [ 65 ]
A view of Stadion from the Northern Stand, showing from left to right the Eastern Stand, the Southern Stand and the western Stand
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european record [edit ]
Malmö FF has a rich european bequest with participation in UEFA competitions since 1964. The club ‘s best european performance was in the 1978–79 season, when they reached the final examination of the UEFA Champions League ( then European Champion Clubs ‘ Cup ), where they were beaten 0-1 by english Champions Nottingham Forest. This makes Malmö FF the only Nordic club to have reached this far in the european Cup or Champions League. [ 66 ] Malmö FF is besides the only Nordic club to have been represented at the Intercontinental Cup ( succeeded by FIFA Club World Cup ) in which they competed for the 1979 deed. [ 67 ] Malmö FF is one of the four swedish clubs to have participated in the UEFA Champions League group stages, along with IFK Göteborg, AIK and Helsingborg .
overall record by rival [edit ]
UEFA Coefficient [edit ]
Correct as of 13 August 2021.[68][69] The table shows the position of Malmö FF (highlighted), based on their UEFA coefficient club ranking for 2021, and the four clubs which are closest to Malmö FF’s position (the two clubs with the higher coefficient and the two with the lower coefficient).
| 2022 | 2021 | Mvmt. | Club | 2016–17 | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2019–20 | 2020–21 | 2021 Coeff. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 57 |  +2
|
 Ludogorets
|
7.00 | 4.00 | 6.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 23.000 |
| 55 | 63 | +8
|
 Hoffenheim
|
4.00 | 7.00 | 12.00 | 23.000 | ||
| 57 | 88 | +31
|
 Malmö FF
|
1.00 | 7.00 | 8.00 | 2.50 | 3.00 | 21.500 |
| 57 | 87 | +30
|
 Rennes
|
11.00 | 3.00 | 5.00 | 2.50 | 21.500 | |
| 59 | 48 |  -11
|
Mönchengladbach
|
6.00 | 15.00 | 21.000 |
ownership and finances [edit ]
Malmö FF made the transition from an amateur golf club to in full professional in the late 1970s under the leadership of club president Eric Persson. [ 70 ] The club is an open member association, and the annual general meet is the highest policy-making body where each penis has one vote, therefore no shares are issued. The meeting approves the accounts, votes to elect the chair and the board, and decides on incoming motions. During the successful 2010 ‘s era Håkan Jeppsson was the chair after taking over after Bengt Madsen in 2010, prior to his sudden death in 2018. The club ‘s legal condition means that any interest claims are made to the club and not to the display panel of directors or cabaret members. casual operations are run by a managing director who liaises with the chair. [ 71 ] With an equity of 497 million SEK the clubhouse is the richest football club in Sweden as of 2019. The turnover for 2018 was 343 million SEK. [ 72 ] The highest transfer tip received by Malmö FF for a actor was 86.2 million SEK ( € 8.7 million at that clock ) for Zlatan Ibrahimović who was sold to Ajax in 2001. At the clock time, this was the highest transmit fee ever paid to a swedish football cabaret. [ 73 ] The chief sponsors of Malmö FF are Volkswagen, Elitfönster AB, Intersport, Imtech, JMS Mediasystem, Mercedes-Benz, SOVA and Svenska Spel. [ 74 ] The club besides had a name rights share with Swedbank regarding the name of Eleda Stadion between 2007 and 2017 when it was called Swedbank Stadion .
Media coverage [edit ]
Malmö FF have been the subject of respective films. Some examples are swedish football documentaries Blådårar 1 and Blådårar 2, which portray the club from both garter and musician perspectives during the 1997 and 2000 seasons. Blådårar 1 is set in 1997, when the baseball club finished third base in Allsvenskan. The film focuses on devoted fan Lasse, musician Anders Andersson, former chair Hans Cavalli-Björkman and other individuals. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] Blådårar 2 is set in 2000, the year after the club had been relegated to Superettan, and follows the team as they fight for Malmö FF ‘s restitution to Allsvenskan. [ 77 ] [ 78 ] The second film continues to follow Lasse, but besides has a significant focus on Zlatan Ibrahimović, his build up and how he was finally sold to AFC Ajax during the 2001 season. [ 79 ] [ 80 ] The club have besides been featured in Mitt Hjärtas Malmö, a series of documentaries covering the history of Malmö. Clips used included match footage from the 1940s ( volume 7 ), and match footage from the 1979 european Cup Final in Munich from a fan ‘s perspective ( volume 8 ). [ 81 ] bulk 9 of the series is devoted entirely to coverage of the golf club ‘s hundredth anniversary in 2010. [ 82 ] In the 2005 swedish drama movie Om Sara, actor Alexander Skarsgård plays the fictional football star Kalle Öberg, who plays for Malmö FF. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] Finally, a recurring sketch in the second gear temper of the comedy sketch show Hipphipp! involved a group of Malmö FF fans singing and chanting while performing everyday tasks, such as shop or operating an ATM. [ 85 ]
Players [edit ]
current team [edit ]
- As of 21 August 2021[86]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Out on loanword [edit ]
- As of 18 July 2021[86]
notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
retire numbers [edit ]
12 – MFF Support [ 87 ]
noteworthy players [edit ]
[88]Zlatan Ibrahimović started his professional career at Malmö FF. He made 40 league appearances and scored 18 goals for the club between 1999 and 2001. List criteria:
- player has made more than 500 appearances overall for the club, or
- player has won Guldbollen,[89] an official UEFA or FIFA award,[90][91] or
- player has been picked as one of the 11 best players in the official hall of fame Sydsvenskan team that was selected by the newspapers readers for the club’s 100th anniversary in 2010.[92]
| Name | Nationality | Malmö FF career |
Total appearances |
Total goals |
Guldbollen | UEFA/FIFA Award | Sydsvenskan team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 1934–1953 | 600 | 4 | 1950 | |||
| Sweden | 1934–1951 | 501 | 3 | ||||
| Sweden | 1952–1965 | 515 | 103 | 1962 | |||
| Sweden | 1957–1968 1970 |
414 | 161 | 1967 | |||
| Sweden | 1962–1966 1969–1979 |
546 | 289 | 1965 1973 |
Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1963–1979 | 626 | 16 | Yes | |||
| Sweden | 1968–1983 | 624 | 49 | 1977 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1968–1974 1977–1983 |
564 | 13 | ||||
| Sweden | 1971–1980 1984–1988 |
591 | 1 | 1979 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1976–1987 | 473 | 46 | Yes | |||
| Sweden | 1975–1988 | 568 | 28 | ||||
| Sweden | 1977–1982 1993–1995 |
262 | 57 | 1986 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1980–1995 | 574 | 39 | ||||
| Sweden | 1984–2001 | 588 | 1 | ||||
| Sweden | 1985–1987 1988–1989 |
160 | 30 | 1989 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1987–1991 | 176 | 83 | 1993 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1987–1991 | 103 | 7 | 1999 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1989–1992 2004–2005 |
184 | 24 | 1995 2001 |
UEFA Team of the Year 2001 |
Yes | |
| Sweden | 1999–2001 | 69 | 16 | 2005 2007–2016 |
UEFA Team of the Year 2007 2009 2013 2014 FIFPro World XI 2013 FIFA Puskás Award 2013 |
Yes | |
| Finland | 2005–2007 | 18 | 6 | UEFA Jubilee Awards |
management [edit ]
organization [edit ]
As of 7 December 2018 [ 93 ] [ 94 ]
technical staff [edit ]
As of 11 August 2021 [ 86 ]
luminary coaches [edit ]
Roy Hodgson won five consecutive Allsvenskan titles and two Svenska Cupen titles during his five years at the club. He is pictured in 2012 as head coach of England This is a list of coaches who have won one or more titles at the cabaret [ 95 ]
Statistics [edit ]
Malmö FF have played 86 seasons in Allsvenskan. The only club to have played more seasons are AIK with 93 and IFK Göteborg with 89 ( 2021 ). [ 96 ] The club are besides the leaders of the all-time Allsvenskan table since the end of the 2012 season. [ 96 ] They are the merely Nordic club to have played a european Cup final, confront day UEFA Champions League, having reached the 1979 european Cup Final. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Malmö FF is besides the lone Nordic club to have been represented at the Intercontinental Cup ( succeeded by FIFA Club World Cup ) in which they competed for the 1979 title. [ 97 ]
Club honor [edit ]
Malmö FF have won domestic, european, and external honor. The club presently holds the records for most swedish championships, Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen titles. [ A ] The baseball club ‘s most holocene honor was in 2021 when they won Allsvenskan. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The club foremost played in Europe for the 1964–65 european season in the european Cup, and most recently in the 2021–22 european season in the group stage for the UEFA Champions League. Including the qualification stages, they have participated in the european Cup and UEFA Champions League eighteen times and in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League seventeen times. The club have besides played in early now defunct european competitions such as the UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup and the UEFA Intertoto Cup. [ 98 ] [ 99 ]
domestic [edit ]
The Malmö FF team of 1948–49
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- a b c d[5] The claim of “ swedish Champions ” has been awarded to the achiever of four different competitions over the years. between 1896 and 1925 the title was awarded to the winner of the Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played. In 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 a play-off in cup format was held at the end of the league temper to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the title was decided by the winner of Mästerskapsserien, an extra league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the deed has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan .
References [edit ]
General
- Smitt, Rikard (2009). Ända sen gamla dagar… (in Swedish). Project Management. ISBN 978-91-633-5767-1.
- Törner, Ole (2005). Malmö FF; En Supporters Handbok (in Swedish). Bokförlaget DN. ISBN 91-7588-683-9.
Specific
- Official website ( in Swedish )
- MFF Support ( in Swedish ) – official supporter club site
- Himmelriket ( in Swedish ) – supporter site
- MFF-Familjen ( in Swedish ) – supporter site
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