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Kalmar Fotbollförening, more normally known as Kalmar FF, is a swedish professional football baseball club based in Kalmar. The club is affiliated to Smålands Fotbollförbund and play their family games at Guldfågeln Arena. [ 1 ] Formed on 15 June 1910, the golf club have won one home backing entitle ( 2008 ) and three national cup titles ( 1981, 1987 & 2007 ). In total, KFF has made 33 seasons in Allsvenskan since the debut in the 1949. The clubhouse can be found at the13th side in the all-time Allsvenskan standings, is one of 12 swedish football clubs that have become both national champions and national cup champions, and one of 14 clubs that have always played in one of the three highest swedish home football leagues. [ 2 ]

Reading: Kalmar FF

Kalmar FF ‘s main local rivals are Östers IF and during the 1980s and 90s Kalmar AIK .

history [edit ]

In the begin [edit ]

A chart showing the advancement of Kalmar FF through the swedish football league organization. The different shades of grey represent league divisions. On 15 June 1910, the clubhouse IF Göta was created, however they were not allowed to enter the Riksidrottsförbundet due to a conflict regarding the identify. The appoint was already taken by Stockholm’s-Göta and Karlstads-Göta. Later in 1912 the club changed its name to IF Gothia and was then accepted by Riksidrottsförbundet. In 1918 Fredriksskans was opened and at the same prison term there was a major conference in Kalmar about the high number of clubs in the town, this led to the unite of IF Gothia and Kamraterna to Kalmar Idrotts Sällskap and Kalmar IK merged with Falken to form Kalmar AIK. In 1927 Kalmar Idrotts Sällskap changed its name to Kalmar FF. In 1927–1928 they qualified for the local anesthetic league in the Swedish league system, IFK Oskarshamn won the league and was moved improving to the Southswedish league, covering both Småland and Skåne, however IFK Oskarshamn renounced its stead and it was given to Kalmar FF, this gave arise to complaint from the clubs in Skåne since there were no good prepare connections to Kalmar at that meter, however SJ solved it. In their beginning game they defeated Malmö FF with 6–0 .

The in-between years [edit ]

In 1949 the club reached Allsvenskan for the beginning time after defeating Halmstads BK in the critical game of the temper ; during this time swedish leagues were played autumn–spring, on 31 July they played their first bet on in Allsvenskan against Degerfors IF and lost 2–0, subsequently, the former world-famous Gunnar Nordahl claimed that he had seen a lot worse newcomers, besides this year, on 4 September Kalmar faced Malmö FF in front of 15 093 people in the consultation ; this is still the audience criminal record on Fredriksskans. between 1950 and 1955 the club went astir and down between Allsvenskan and Division 2. In 1955 they fell down to Division 2 and stayed there for 20 years ; during this time players like hungarian Ference Marko represented the baseball club at the same time as he lived at the refugee camp in Borgholm in 1957, in 1959 Sune “ Mona-Lisa ” Andersson, who won an Olympic decoration in the 1948 Summer Olympics as a actor, as director, during this time Sten-Åke Johansson played for the cabaret and became the top goalscorer for all time for the golf club, on 19 October 1975 Kalmar FF defeated Västra Frölunda and returned to Allsvenskan. In 1976 the club played its hundredth game in Allsvenskan against GIF Sundsvall, however this ended with 9–2 get the better of and led to coach Kay Wiestål being fired. The 1977 temper became the club ‘s most successful season indeed far ; a group of companies sponsored the club ‘s buy of Benno Magnusson ; the club was able to end in 3rd position at the end of the temper, earning the baseball club its first decoration. In 1981 the club won its first style ever, by defeating IF Elfsborg with 4–0, the club won the Svenska Cupen for the first time ever, however they failed to stay in Allsvenskan and was relegated to Division 1 ; however the spell was merely one year farseeing and Kalmar returned in 1983. 1985 became the cabaret ‘s most successful season, as the club ended improving in second place behind Örgryte IS and Billy Lansdowne and Peter Karlsson both became the league ‘s exceed goalscorer along with Sören Börjesson, Örgryte IS, all scoring 10 goals each. The stick to year did not go ampere good ; the club was relegated from the top league and the only happiness in 1987 was when the golf club so far again won the Cup deed, this clock against GAIS, however the club fell out of Division 1 this year. In 1988 Kalmar FF won Division 2 without a individual defeat which is a record in Division 2 and higher leagues. between 1989 and 1997 the baseball club spent most of its time in second highest league ; this caused unplayful economic problems for the club .

The brazilian era [edit ]

After returning to Allsvenskan in 1998, but in 1999 the club fell knocked out again, the alone good thing was that the economy had been restored and was in good determine again. During the 2000 season club had to fight to avoid relegation from the irregular highest league and was lone able to do it in the end of the season. The finish of the 2001 season was to return to Allsvenskan again, after buying respective new players such as Lasse Johansson, Fredrik Gärdeman and Lucas Nilsson, the club was able to return to Allsvenskan again, unfortunately the club was relegated directly. During the 2002 the first brazilian, Alysson, arrived at the club. The spell in Superettan 2003 became lone one year as Kalmar won the league well ahead of Trelleborgs FF, purchase of Daniel Mendes and Dudu helped the club a lot. In 2004 the club bought three new brazilian players, Dedé Anderson, Fábio Augusto and César Santin, they all helped the club to a fifth seat in Allsvenskan, equitable missing out on Royal League, the club besides made a change control panel as chair Ronny Nilsson left after 12 years at the helm, he was replaced by Tommy Strandman.

Champions [edit ]

The two following seasons, 2005 and 2006, Kalmar ended up in 3rd and 5th respectively. then in 2007 they made a bang-up guide from begin to finish and finally ended up in second place after champions IFK Göteborg. They won Svenska Cupen the lapp year by beating IFK Göteborg with 3–0 at Fredriksskans in Kalmar. Before the begin, several swedish experts believed that Kalmar FF would be one of the teams fighting for the championship title 2008, [ 4 ] the club started the season stable and as the season went on the golf club operation became stronger and saw the club win many boastful victories, only other team able to keep up was IF Elfsborg. The club had to wait until the last match of the season against Halmstads BK in Halmstad before they could become champions. Before the concluding equal Elfsborg was behind with 3 points and 9 goals. The match against Halmstads BK ended 2–2 placing the golf club 1 point ahead of Elfsborg. [ 5 ] Patrik Ingelsten besides became the league ‘s crown goalscorer of the season with 19 goals scored. The team reached the final in Svenska Cupen even again and besides this year against IFK Göteborg, however this year IFK won 5–4 on penalties after full-time and extra clock had ended 0–0. The golf club besides had the luck to reach the group stagecoach of the UEFA Cup. After potent play against Racing FC from Luxembourg and Gent from Belgium, the golf club faced Dutch team Feyenoord, after winning 1–0 away in Rotterdam the cabaret lost home with 1–2, in Borås at Borås Arena since Fredriksskans failed to reach UEFA demands, [ 6 ] sending the club out of the rival on away goals. [ 7 ] [ 8 ]

Colours, crest and kit [edit ]

The tinge and kits have changed several times over the class of history. From its initiation in 1910, Kalmar FF were striped fleeceable and red. In 1915 it was changed to crimson shirts and black shorts. After 1927 red-white striped shirt and crimson shorts. 1934-35 they returned to the bolshevik shirt and bootleg shorts. In 1940, the red-and-white strip shirt and red shorts again. Full red shirt and white shorts, like today, Kalmar FF had for the first base time in 1944. In 1952-56, as countless other swedish clubs, they had the then popular Arsenal costume, with white sleeves. [ 9 ] [ 10 ]
The baseball club ‘s first kit manufacturer was Adidas, until a three-year manage was agreed with Umbro in 1995. Puma received the shrink in 1998 and their sponsorship lasted for seventeen years. [ 11 ] In 2016, Hummel was presented as the raw kit out manufacturer of the club. [ 12 ]

european record [edit ]

  • Q = Qualifying round

Season

Round

Opponents

Home leg

Away leg

Aggregate

2009–10

Q2

HungaryDebreceni

3–1

0–2

3–3 (a)

UEFA Club Coefficient Ranking [edit ]

The be list ranks the stream put of Kalmar FF in the UEFA rate [ 13 ] ( as of 27 January 2017 ) :

Players [edit ]

current team [edit ]

As of 18 October 2021[14]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loan [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

retire numbers [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

management [edit ]

Board [edit ]

Name

Role

SwedenJonas Persson

Acting Chairman

Sweden
Board Member

Sweden
Board Member

Sweden
Board Member

Sweden
Board Member

Sweden
Board Member

[ 15 ]

technical Staff [edit ]

[ 16 ]

Managers [edit ]

Achievements [edit ]

league [edit ]

Cups [edit ]

  1. ^[17] The style of “ swedish Champions ” has been awarded to the achiever of four different competitions over the years. between 1896 and 1925 the style was awarded to the achiever of Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No baseball club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played. In 1931 the championship 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 season 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 title has once again been awarded to the achiever of Allsvenskan .

References [edit ]

  • Kalmar FF – official site
  • Röda Bröder – supporter site