football club
Halmstads Bollklubb, besides known simply as Halmstad ( swedish pronunciation : [ ˈhǎlmsta ( d ) ] ) or ( specially locally ) HBK or Bollklubben, is a swedish football club located in Halmstad in the county of Halland. The clubhouse, formed 7 February 1914 and approved membership in the swedish Sports Confederation on 6 March the lapp year. The club competes in the highest tier of swedish football, Allsvenskan, and has won four national championship titles and one national cup championship. HBK is a extremity controlled baseball club. The club gained some european recognition in October 1995, when they defeated the successful italian baseball club Parma A.C. 3–0 at Gamla Ullevi ( in Gothenburg ) in the first gear of two matches in the Cup Winners ‘ Cup. however, their second gear meet, in Parma in November the lapp year, ended with a crushing 0–4 get the better of, eliminating them from the tournament.
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history [edit ]
In the beginning [edit ]
In 1913 a group of youngsters, who called themselves Viking, wishing to create a more serious organization, met at Hotel Lugnet and decided to create an organization. They gave their newfangled administration the name Halmstads Bollklubb and chose Axel Winberg as the club ‘s first president. They besides applied for membership in the swedish Sports Confederation ( swedish : Riksidrottsförbundet ). [ 1 ]
Charles Teodor Hansson ( left ) in early consistent and Axel Winberg ( right ) On 6 March 1914, the club was allowed entrance to Riksidrottsförbundet ; the following year they played in their inaugural rival, Pokalserien, a local tournament in which they faced IS Halmia and Halmstads Kamraterna ; the club ended up concluding with 2 points and 5–16 in goal deviation, in 1916 the same resultant role was seen again, but this clock time the club entirely managed to score 1 goal wholly. In 1917 the club was able to defeat Halmstads Kamraterna doubly and end up in second place behind IS Halmia ; the same year an athletics department was made separate of the clubhouse. The final in the district championship was reached in 1918, but however again IS Halmia proved excessively strong. In 1919 the club was for the beginning time able to defeat IS Halmia and Gustav “ Pytt ” Söderholm became top goalscorer in the tournament. In 1919, a swim department was made a function of the clubhouse. In 1920 the club won their first district championship title by defeating Falkenbergs FF with 4–0 in the concluding and packing was introduced by the club. In 1921 the club so far again won the backing, this clock by defeating IS Halmia, the club besides won Hallandspostens pokal after defeating Halmstads IF 5–0. The lapp class, a women ‘s segment was added to the athletics part of the club. Halmstads BK won the Bernhard Aronssons vandringspris after defeating IS Halmia in 1922 ; the club besides won a series of tournaments in Jönköping, Malmö and Ängelholm, however the district backing was lost to Varberg this year. The local competition with Halmia was besides seen in bandy, the first gear ever bandy game between two organize teams in Halland, is thought to have been played between these equal clubs in 1922. [ 2 ] By winning Hallandsserien the club was able to reach Sydsvenskan in 1923, which led to third seat in 1924 after Varbergs GIF and Malmö FF, an international exchange of matches was started with FC Rudolfshügel from Austria and Danish B 03. In 1925 the club won the zone championship and came in moment place in Sydsvenskan. Halmstads BK was able to win Sydsvenskan in 1926 and was to play qualifying matches against IF Elfsborg to reach Allsvenskan, however Elfsborg proved to be besides firm and won 2–1 after three matches. Halmstad entirely reached third position in 1927, a large series of injuries made the baseball club use 32 different players in total. In 1928 the club took part in the newly formed Division 2 Söder ; the club besides employed amateurish coach Henning Helgesson, Örjans Vall was lone selected as the second-best arena in the serial couple to the miss of warm showers. In 1929 Halmstads BK celebrated 15 years with a equal against SpVgg Sülz from Cologne, Germany ; 1600 people watched the game in heavy rain, SpVgg Sülz won 5–2, the club besides failed to win Division 2 Söder after a unvoiced race with Stattena IF and Redbergslids IK, ending up in third position .
division 2 and upwards [edit ]
A chart showing the advance of Halmstads BK through the swedish football league organization. The unlike shades of grey defend league divisions. Halmstads BK started the adjacent decade with ending up in 4th plaza in the league, a visit by CD Europa did pull a large audience, the spanish team won with 6–5. After a belated league start in 1931, due to clayey bamboozle, the club ended up in 4th invest so far again. IS Halmia won the league in 1932 and in a campaign in the local newspapers tried to get the better Halmstads BK players to join the team, this failed however, Halmstads BK defeated IS Halmia in a charity catch for the city ‘s unemployed people, the swimmers besides left the club and founded SK Laxen. Under the leadership of bet coach Gunnar Olsson Halmstads BK was able to reach Division 1, the clear league at the time, in 1933 for the first time in the club ‘s history, this after defeating BK Drott and Helsingborgs IF for the league title and then defeating Krokslätts FF with 4–0 wholly. Unexpected the cabaret won bronze their first season in the exceed league as when they finished in 4th seat, Emil Carlsson besides became the baseball club first player in the swedish national team. The club was unable to repeat death season ‘s leave and ended up in 9th identify in 1935, handball was besides made a share of the club this year. Halmstads BK left the clear league in 1936 after ending up second end, the golf club would have been able to stay if they had won over IK Sleipner in the stopping point crippled, however the team lost with 2–4. The club was able to return to Division 1 in 1937, but a frustration against top rival Helsingborgs IF saw them come in 2nd, former English professional actor Harry Bruce became the first non-Swedish director for the club. 1938 was a middle year for Halmstads BK as they ended up in 6th place at the end of the temper, English club Sheffield United played a friendly against the club and won with 5–2. In 1939 the clubhouse celebrated its twenty-fifth year and won Division 2, however IFK Göteborg proved to solid in the qualify and won with 1–5 over the golf club. Halmstads BK besides took part in the bandy zone championships in Halland in the 1930s. [ 3 ] ascribable to the ongoing Second World War Sweden focused more on military readiness in case of an invasion than on fun, this led to Halmstads BK being forced to use 29 different players during the season and the consequence came thereafter as the club ended up in 3rd rate behind Malmö BI and winners IS Halmia. Halmstads BK was the superior team in 1941 Division 2 but failed to defeat GAIS in the stipulate for Division 1. Halmstads BK won Division 2 after unvoiced contest with local rivals IS Halmia in 1942 and in the qualify the club was able to defeat Lundby IF with 3–2. The club ended up in 6th place in 1943, only 1 point from earning a decoration. Halmstad was close to fall out of the top division in 1944 but a series of victories saved them in the end. 1945 saw the golf club end up in 8th topographic point. In 1946 the club ended up second from last after a poor temper, however the clubhouse ‘s youth team won the unofficial young person championship, first defeating IFK Göteborg and then playing 4–4 against AIK in the concluding, winning on drawing the gain lot, in the young team there were players like Sylve Bengtsson, Gunnar Johansson, Olle Ericsson, Östen Ståhl and Åke Hallström, who all late became notice players in the golf club ‘s history. Halmstads BK returned to Division 1 after only 1 season in Division 2, the golf club crushed Örgryte IS with 6–1 in the 1947 qualify, the team besides played their first match outside Sweden this class, they defeated Helsingør IF with 8–2 and the youth police squad won the youth backing again after defeating Djurgårdens IF with 2–1. merely like the year before Halmstads BK fourth dimension in Division 1 entirely became 1 year as they ended up dead last in 1948. In 1949 Kalmar FF proved besides potent and Halmstads BK ended astir in 3rd seat in the league, the club besides refused to participate in the zone championship as a protest to the “ cheating demeanor ” the zone association had showed the club the former year. The 1950s started ill as the golf club reached 2nd set behind Råå IF ; several injuries to key players disturbed the season, and in 1951 the club board decided to rejuvenate the squad and which led to a seventh place. In 1952 the cabaret yet again ended up in 2nd place, the club besides went on a trip, first to Germany, where they played a serial of matches, and then to the french Riviera, where the clubhouse played a game and enjoyed the weather and beach, they then returned home and played a game against brazilian team Corinthians with a assorted team of Halmstads BK and IS Halmia players, the Brazilians won with 10–1, Sylve Bengtsson returned from the 1952 Summer Olympics with a tan decoration. 1953 saw a change in the league system and Halmstads BK was lucky as the club was able to stay only because of better goal deviation as 6 teams was relegated. Things changed in 1954 as Halmstads BK dominated the new league and won promotion with 12 points ahead of IK Sleipner in second station, then made even again a trip south, this clock to North Africa and Spain, bowling was added to the club. Halmstads BK reached their best position so far in 1954–55 season as the club ended up in 2nd place, winning Stora Silvret ( eng : The Big Silver ), then during 1955–56 temper, Halmstads BK biggest victory was recorded as they club crushed Västerås SK with 9–0, Östen Ståhl scored 6 goals in the match, Sylve Bengtsson besides became the league ‘s top goal scorekeeper with 22 goals, Halmstads BK ended in 7th stead. Just as in the begin of the decade the end was far from well, the baseball club ended up in 8th locate both in 1957 and 1958, during 1958 Sweden hosted FIFA World Cup and 2 matches, Northern Ireland against Czechoslovakia ( 1–0 ) and Argentina against Northern Ireland ( 3–1 ) were played at Örjans Vall, and in 1959 the cabaret was relegated back to Division 2 after ending up second to last .
The night ten [edit ]
The 1960s was n’t Halmstads BK ‘s ten, the club ended up in 4th place in 1960 even after Kjell “ Lill-Goggo ” Karlsson and Sylve Bengtsson had scored 34 goals together, in 1961 the baseball club ended up in 7th military position after hapless dally, in 1962 the club went through a rejuvenation and only won 9 matches out of 22, making the club end in 6th plaza, then in 1963 two victories against Norrby IF and IK Oddevold helped the club to 9th plaza, this year saw ice ice hockey become a separate of the golf club ‘s arrangement. Halmstads BK won Division 2 in 1964, but in the newfangled qualify for Allsvenskan, a group of the four different Division 2 winners, the club played ailing and ended up dead last. 1965 was the darkest year for the baseball club so far as it was relegated to Division 3 for the first time ever in club history, it took the club 2 years to return Division 2 again after ending up in 2nd place both 1966 and 1967, then in 1968 the clubhouse dominated Division 3 and had a goal dispute of 87–23, a record in the Swedish league system, the ice ice hockey left the organization and started their own. The club made a hard return in Division 2 and ended up in 4th stead, Lennart Alexandersson, Ingvar Andersson, Roland Fransson and Lars Nordin became the first contracted players in the club .
Champions [edit ]
With only 3 point in sum in all away games saw Halmstads BK end up in 6th place in 1970. The year 1971 was disruptive, as coach Janne Holmberg left in the center of the season due to a dispute with the board. Former exceed player Sylve Bengtsson replaced him and the club subsequently defeated Perstorp SK in the seriefinal, securing 2nd place and qualifying for promotion to Allsvenskan. The spell in the exceed league lasted only 1 year, however, as the cabaret ended up dead survive, scoring only 14 goals that year. 1973 saw the club again achieve promotion, this time under the leadership of Sven Agne Larsson, who led the golf club through 20 games in a row without a kill. The clubhouse spent the next two years in Allsvenskan fighting off relegation, finishing in 11th place in 1974 and, in 1975, only surviving by beating GAIS on goal dispute. In 1976 Halmstads BK hired Roy Hodgson as new coach and achiever came directly as the golf club went on and won Allsvenskan for the first time ever, the title was won in the second end game against IFK Norrköping, the last match against Östers IF was seen by 16000 people cheering for the team. Halmstads BK ended up in 8th position in 1977 season and Dynamo Dresden proved besides strong in the first turn of european Cup, however again the club ended in 8th set in 1978, Mats Jingblad was moved up from the baseball club ‘s young person system this year. Halmstads BK won their second championship in 1979. precisely like after stopping point time winning Allsvenskan, Halmstad ended up in 8th position in 1980 and in the european Cup Danish Esbjerg fB proved besides hard with 0–0 family and 2–3 away, Roy Hodgson besides left during the fall to take over Bristol City. To the 1981 season Halmstads BK hired Dutch coach Jan Mak and with him came Frank Schinkels, the first not Swedish player in the club, but with a poor start saw the club end up in 9th stead. In 1982 the club ended up in 8th and earned a spot in the play-off, but IFK Göteborg proved besides potent with 2–4 wholly. In 1983 the club climbed two positions much due to british goalkeeper Ken Allen. 1984 started with a fight between the circuit board and director Jan Mak and it ended it with Jan Mak leaving the golf club, he was replaced by Stefan Lundin, the club reached 8th locate and IFK Göteborg proved excessively potent in the play-off again. Halmstads BK topt the table during the give of 1985 but a poor ending of the season saw the club end in 7th place. During the middle of the 1986 season Stefan Lundin left the club for Portugies C.S. Marítimo and was replaced by Kenneth Rosén, the season ended with a fifth place and Stig Nilsson became the modern chair. A serial of injuries on keyplayers saw the baseball club end up second base to last and was relegated from Allsvenskan for the first time in 14 years in 1987. Stuart Baxter became new director in 1988 and ever after losing respective keyplayers and trailing after Mjällby AIF with 7 point, the club was able to claim the top blot on better goal deviation. The club ended astir in a fifth invest in their return to Allsvenskan in 1989 .
Allsvenskan and Europe [edit ]
The 1990s decade started army for the liberation of rwanda from promising for the club ; in 1990 season the club ended in 9th target and a raw play-off was started in 1991, Halmstads BK just missed the play-off on finish difference to IFK Norrköping, ending up in 7th rate and was forced to play relegation play-off against team 8–10 in Allsvenskan and the Division 1 champions, it went ailing and the club was relegated. 1992 saw two league victories for Halmstads BK, first Division 1 Södra and then in the promotion/relegation play-off for Allsvenskan. Henrik Bertilsson became Allsvenskan ‘s lead goalscorer in 1993 with 18 goals, sharing the top point with Trelleborgs FF ‘s Mats Lilienberg, this helped the club to a fifth place. The club ended up in 7th place in 1994 and Henrik Bertillson left for french FC Martigues, it went better for the youth squad as they reached the concluding in the young person championship, but Djurgårdens IF proved besides hard and won with 1–0. 1995 became a hard year for Halmstads BK supporters to forget as they for the first time always won Svenska Cupen and the golf club ended up in 3rd locate, winning Lilla Silvret, but it was the home peer against Parma F.C. in the UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup that drew most attention as Halmstads BK won with 3–0 on Gamla Ullevi in Gothenburg, however the returned ended with a major defeat, 4–0 to Parma. Tom Prahl took over as coach in 1996 and lead the team to a seventh place in Allsvenskan and in the first gear round of the UEFA Cup Newcastle United proved the stronger team. In 1997 Halmstads BK celebrated their third championship entitle after 3–0 in the last game against Ljungskile SK, Mats Lilienberg, nowadays in Halmstads BK, became league lead goalscorer with 14 goals, aboard Christer Mattiasson, IF Elfsborg, and Dan Sahlin, Örebro SK. 1998 saw the club end up in 8th place and the UEFA Champions League adventured ended quickly after kill with 3–2 in sum against Litex Lovech, from Bulgaria, in the foremost modification round off, own intersection Freddie Ljungberg was sold to Arsenal F.C. for 40 million SEK. A poor people begin of the 1999 season did n’t prevent Halmstads BK from fighting for the league championship until the second last match, the club had to be satisfied with 3rd place and Lilla Silvret .
Halmstads BK started the modern millennium with taking their fourthly Allsvenskan claim, they besides reached moment round in the UEFA Cup after defeating S.L. Benfica, but then TSV 1860 München proved besides strong, Halmstad besides became the last team to win the Von Rosen Trophy as it was revealed that Clarence von Rosen was a Nazi sympathizer, it was replaced in 2001 with the Lennart Johansson Trophy. Stefan Selakovic became league top goalscorer with 15 goals as the cabaret ended 7th space, R.S.C. Anderlecht was excessively strong in the UEFA Champions League one-third qualifying round and then Sporting Clube de Portugal in the second round of the UEFA Cup, Tom Prahl left the club for Allsvenskan rival Malmö FF and was replaced by early Swedish external player Jonas Thern. 2002 started extremely bad for the club as after 15 rounds it lay dead last, but a spell of 11 games undefeated saw the club get saved from relegation. During the 2003 season Halmstad had a casual for a decoration until the end of the season where the club lost 7 of the 8 last games and ended up in 9th identify, Jonas Thern decided to leave the golf club during the fall and adjunct coach Janne Andersson became new director. Halmstads BK was 36 minutes from winning their fifth Allsvenskan title after leading Allsvenskan most of the season, but merely managed 1–1 against IFK Göteborg in the last game, while Malmö FF, on the same target prior to the survive equal, managed to win with 1–0 against IF Elfsborg, Markus Rosenberg, on loan from Malmö FF, became league top goalscorer with 14 goals. 2005 became a bad year for Halmstads BK as they struggled to a tenth target, Gunnar Heidar Thorvaldsson became league crown goalscorer with 16 goals, however in Europe things went a sting better as the club managed to qualify for the new group stage in the UEFA Cup after winning on away goal against last class runner-up Sporting Clube de Portugal, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] however the club failed to take a single bespeak in the group and alone scored 1 goal. 2006 was much like the year before and the baseball club did n’t score until the 7th catch of the season when defender Per “ Texas ” Johansson scored the only goal of the equal against Örgryte IS, the club ended in 11th set. 2007 started promise and the club was one of the teams fighting for the Allsvenskan claim until the 18 beat, in the game against IFK Göteborg, Finnish goalkeeper Magnus Bahne got hurt and missed the rest of the season, Kazakh goalkeeper David Loriya was brought in, but in his seven games Halmstads BK failed to win a single one and in the last game, away against Helsingborgs IF, the cabaret lost with 0–9, the second biggest frustration in the club history ; Halmstads BK ended up in 7th place .
delegating to Superettan [edit ]
Halmstad began the 2008 Allsvenskan season well enough, with four wins and three ties after the first gear ten rounds. The team continued on in this manner, ending at a goodly eighth place with 41 points. But the adopt season did not end about arsenic good. The team began very impressively, with consecutive wins and very few losses. But, following several losses, the team finally found themselves in the bottom area of the board. however, the team ended the season better and finished 13th with 32 points, good three points from having to play in a relegation playoff serial. The 2011 season was not a good temper for neither Halmstad nor its fans. With fair 14 points after 26 rounds, and at least another 10 points needed to reach the delegating playoffs, Halmstad had to win against Syrianska FC in the pursuit round. Halmstad lost the game 1–0 and therefore were relegated to Superettan for the 2012 season, after 19 back-to-back seasons in Allsvenskan .
Bouncing back [edit ]
HBK was nowadays back in the second division, a division they had been away for 19 years. But as previously 4 times, they cursorily bounced back through a play-off acquire against GIF Sundsvall. The future class, 2013, ended with a fourteenth place and once again GIF Sundsvall was the opponent in the play-offs. But as in 2012 HBK ended up as the winner and could celebrate their 100-year anniversary in the clear division .
Supporters [edit ]
[ 6 ] Halmstads BK ‘s chief assistant group is Bollklubben Support, it was early known as Kvastarna ( eng : The Brooms ), and were created in 1995, they are located in the center of the no seat section on Örjans Vall during the home games. Halmstads BK used to have an average of 4000–6000 spectators when playing home, when playing teams like Djurgårdens IF, IFK Göteborg or Malmö FF then audience it could rise to 8000-10000 people, however a lot because of the aside supporters. Today the attendance is more modest and rises to maximum of 5000–6000 on the “ boastful ” games .
stadium [edit ]
Halmstads BK plays it home matches on Örjans Vall, which they share in concert with local rivals IS Halmia. however, since Örjans Vall is an old stadium, built in 1922, it does n’t meet the present european demands for stadiums, forcing Halmstads BK to play their european games on Olympia, Helsingborg, or at Ullevi, Gothenburg. Örjans Vall was the web site of 2 games during the 1958 FIFA World Cup, Northern Ireland–Czechoslovakia and Argentina–Northern Ireland.
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Match programmes and newspaper [edit ]
In 2006 all swedish clubs in Allsvenskan was given an put up from Aftonbladet to print their match programmes, aside from AIK, Djurgårdens IF and Hammarby IF, who signed a deal with newspaper rival Expressen. Halmstads BK rejected the offer and chose to print their own match program, making them the only club in the exceed league with their own match program at the time. [ 7 ] The club besides print a minor newspaper known as Tidningen HBK ( eng : Newspaper HBK ), which contains interviews with players, fans and other people connected to the cabaret. It comes out as a supplement to the local anesthetic newspaper Hallandsposten. It is besides available to download on the club ‘s home page. [ 8 ]
In popular culture [edit ]
swedish comedians Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, besides known as Hasse och Tage, made an skit about erstwhile HBK director Roy Hodgson when Halmstads BK won Allsvenskan in 1976, known as Fotbollstränare Bob Lindeman ( Eng : football coach Bob Lindeman ) .
Players [edit ]
First-team team [edit ]
- As of 16 March 2021[9]
eminence : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Out on loanword [edit ]
- As of 13 February 2021
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
celebrated players [edit ]
List criteria:
- player has made 250 or more appearances in Allsvenskan for the club,[10] or
- player has won Guldbollen,[11] or
- player has received more than 50 caps for Sweden or other national team.
Allsvenskan top goalscorers [edit ]
technical foul staff [edit ]
- As of 1 April 2018.
Noted managers [edit ]
This is a list of managers who have won one or more titles at the clubhouse .
Achievements [edit ]
domestic [edit ]
domestic [edit ]
league [edit ]
Cups [edit ]
Records [edit ]
[ 14 ]
- ^[13] The title of “ swedish Champions ” has been awarded to the winner of four different competitions over the years. between 1896 and 1925 the title was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the claim between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played. In 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the achiever of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 a play-off in cup format was held at the end of the league season to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the style was decided by the achiever of Mästerskapsserien, an extra league after the goal of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan .
- ^ This includes different regional divisions within the league : division 2 Sydsvenska Serien, Division 2 Södra, Division 2 Sydvästra, Division 2 Götaland, Division 2 Västra Götaland and Division 2 Södra Götaland .
References [edit ]
Official sites:
Supporter sites:
- Kvastarna – official supporter club site ( in Swedish )
- Himlen är blå – supporter site ( in Swedish )
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