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IFK Norrköping
IFK Norrkoping logo.svg
Full name Idrottsföreningen
Kamraterna Norrköping
Nickname(s) IFK
Peking (Beijing)
Snoka
Kamraterna (The comrades)
VitaBlå (WhiteBlue)
Founded 29 May 1897; 127 years ago (1897-05-29)
Stadium PlatinumCars Arena, Norrköping (Östgötaporten, Nya Parken, Idrottsparken)
Stadium
capacity
17,234
Chairman Sakarias Mårdh
Manager Andreas Alm
League Allsvenskan
2023 Allsvenskan, 9th of 16
Third colours
IFK Norrköping League Performance
A chart showing the progress of IFK Norrköping through the swedish football league system. The different shades of gray represent league divisions.
Nyaparken
Nya Parken
Peking Fanz
IFK Norrköping supporter group Peking Fanz.

Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Östgötaporten. The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are white and blue. Formed on 29 May 1897, the club have won thirteen national championship titles and six national cup titles.

The club plays in the highest Swedish tier, Allsvenskan, which they first won in 1943. IFK Norrköping were most successful during the 1940s, when they won five Swedish championships and two Svenska Cupen titles under the Hungarian coach Lajos Czeizler and with players like Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm.

IFK Norrköping won the 2015 Allsvenskan, their first win since 1989, which also gave them a spot in the second qualification round of 2016–17 UEFA Champions League.

History

IFK Norrköping dominated Swedish football in the post war era and won the first division 11 times in 20 years, culminating in the league triumph of 1963. It took the club another 26 years before adding championship title number 12 to the trophy cabinet.

On 31 October 2015, IFK Norrköping won their 13th championship title after defeating the defending champions Malmö FF with 2–0 away in Swedbank Stadion in Malmö in the last round of 2015 Allsvenskan. This was the second time in a row they had to wait 26 years between titles. On 8 November IFK Norrköping won supercupen against Swedish cup winners IFK Göteborg. The result was 3–0 after a dominating performance from the reigning Swedish champions.

Rivalries

The club used to have a fierce rivalry with IK Sleipner, also from Norrköping, before Sleipner's fall from the higher divisions. Another historic rivalry is that against Åtvidabergs FF, also from the province of Östergötland, which was especially tense in the 1970s and early 2010s. This rivalry has lost importance since Åtvidaberg were relegated from Allsvenskan. IFK Norrköping also maintains a rivalry with Malmö FF; the fixtures between the clubs is sometimes known as "The Working Class Derby"

Players

First-team squad

No. Position Player
1 Sweden GK Oscar Jansson
3 Denmark DF Marcus Baggesen
4 Sweden DF Amadeus Sögaard
5 Sweden FW Christoffer Nyman
6 Sweden DF Isak Ssewankambo
7 Sweden MF Jacob Ortmark
8 Iceland FW Ísak Andri Sigurgeirsson
9 Iceland MF Arnór Ingvi Traustason
10 Denmark MF Vito Hammershøy-Mistrati
11 Kosovo MF Ismet Lushaku
14 Sweden DF Yahya Kalley
15 Sweden FW Carl Björk (on loan from Brøndby)
16 Sweden DF Dino Salihovic
17 Albania FW Laorent Shabani
No. Position Player
19 Sweden DF Max Watson
20 Norway DF Daniel Eid
21 The Gambia MF Jesper Ceesay
22 Sweden FW Tim Prica
23 Sweden MF Joseph Ceesay (on loan from Malmö FF)
24 Sweden DF Anton Eriksson
25 Sweden DF Kevin Höög Jansson
26 Sweden MF Kristoffer Khazeni
30 Sweden GK Tommi Vaiho
31 Sweden FW Leo Jonsson
35 Ghana MF Stephen Bolma
37 Sweden DF Moutaz Neffati
38 Sweden MF Ture Sandberg
40 Sweden GK David Andersson

Out on loan

No. Position Player
22 Iceland FW Andri Guðjohnsen (to Lyngby until 30 June 2024)
28 Sweden MF Fritiof Hellichius (to Skövde AIK until 31 December 2024)
29 Sweden GK Julius Lindgren (to J-Södra until 31 December 2024)
No. Position Player
30 Sweden GK Otto Lindell (to Skövde AIK until 31 December 2024)
34 Sweden DF Edvin Tellgren (to Skövde AIK until 31 December 2024)
37 Ghana MF Kojo Peprah Oppong (to GIF Sundsvall until 31 December 2024)

Retired numbers

  • 12 – Fans of the club

Winners of Guldbollen

EkströmJohansson
Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson (right) playing in a 1964 game against Malmö FF.

League top scorers

Allsvenskan

  • Sweden Gunnar Nordahl 1944–45 (27 goals), 1945–46 (25 goals) and 1947–48 (18 goals)
  • Sweden Harry Bild 1956–57 (19 goals)
  • Sweden Henry "Putte" Källgren 1957–58 (27 goals) (shared with Bertil Johansson, IFK Göteborg)
  • Sweden Ove Kindvall 1966 (20 goals)
  • Sweden Jan Hellström 1989 (16 goals)
  • Sweden Niclas Kindvall 1994 (23 goals)
  • Sweden Imad Khalili 2013 (15 goals) (eight goals scored for Helsingborgs IF)
  • Sweden Emir Kujović 2015 (21 goals)
  • Sweden Kalle Holmberg 2017 (14 goals) (shared with Magnus Eriksson, Djurgårdens IF)
  • Sweden Christoffer Nyman 2020 (18 goals)
  • Nigeria Samuel Adegbenro 2021 (17 goals)

Superettan (Division II 1924/1925–1986 and Division I 1987–1999)

  • Sweden Stefan Pettersson 1983 (17 goals)
  • Brazil Bruno Santos 2005 (17 goals)
  • Iceland Garðar Gunnlaugsson 2007 (18 goals)

Management

Technical staff

As of 13 January 2024

Name Role
Sweden Tony Martinsson Sports director
Sweden Andreas Alm Head coach
Bosnia and Herzegovina Azrudin Valentić Assistant coach
Sweden Martin Sjögren Assistant coach
Sweden Fredrik Landén Assistant coach
Sweden Christian Tiritiello Assistant coach & goalkeeping coach
Sweden Jamie Steel Fitness coach
Sweden Peter Cratz Club doctor
Sweden Nicolas Santi Aguilar Physiotherapist
Sweden Bengt Janzon Club doctor
Sweden Daniel Ekwall Mental coach
Sweden Lennart Linder Equipment manager
Sweden Simon Larsson Coordinator
Sweden Kristoffer Karlsson Physiotherapist

Honours

League

Norrköping, de doelman gebruikt vliegenvangerslijm om zijn effectiviteit te verbeteren (1963)
1963: Bengt Nyholm, the keeper of IFK Norrköping, tries to improve his effectiveness by applying glue from flypaper to his hands
  • Swedish Champions
    • Winners (13): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1989, 2015
  • Allsvenskan:
    • Winners (12): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 2015
    • Runners-up (10): 1952–53, 1957–58, 1959, 1961, 1966, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2018
  • Superettan:
    • Winners (1): 2007
    • Runners-up (1): 2010
  • Mästerskapsserien:
    • Runners-up (2): 1991, 1992

Cups

  • Svenska Cupen:
    • Winners (6): 1943, 1945, 1968–69, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1993–94
    • Runners-up (5): 1944, 1953, 1967, 1971–72, 2016–17
  • Svenska Supercupen:
    • Winners (1): 2015

IFK Norrköping in Europe

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1956–57 European Cup 1R Italy Florentina 0–1 1–1 1–2
1957–58 European Cup 1R Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade 2–2 1–2 3–4
1962–63 European Cup PR Albania Partizani Tirana 2–0 1–1 3–1
1R Portugal Benfica 1–1 1–5 2–6
1963–64 European Cup PR Belgium Standard Liége 2–0 0–1 2–1
1R Italy Milan 1–1 2–5 3–6
1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Northern Ireland Crusaders 4–1 2–2 6–3
2R Norway Lyn 3–2 0–2 3–4
1969–70 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Malta Sliema Wanderers 5–1 0–1 5–2
2R West Germany Schalke 04 0–0 0–1 0–1
1972–73 UEFA Cup 1R Romania UTA Arad 2–0 2–1 4–1
2R Italy Inter Milan 0–2 2–2 2–4
1978–79 UEFA Cup 1R Scotland Hibernian 0–0 2–3 2–3
1982–83 UEFA Cup 1R England Southampton 0–0 2–2 2–2 (a)
2R Italy Roma 1–0 0–1
(2–4 p)
1–1
1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Italy Sampdoria 2–1 0–2 2–3
1990–91 UEFA Cup 1R Germany 1. FC Köln 0–0 1–3 1–3
1991–92 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Luxembourg Jeunesse Esch 4–0 2–1 6–1
2R France Monaco 1–2 0–1 1–3
1992–93 UEFA Cup 1R Italy Torino 1–0 0–3 1–3
1993–94 UEFA Cup 1R Belgium KV Mechelen 0–1 1–1
(aet)
1–2
1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup QR Czech Republic Viktoria Žižkov 3–3 0–1 3–4
2000–01 UEFA Cup QR Faroe Islands 2–1 2–0 4–1
1R Czech Republic Slovan Liberec 2–2 1–2 3–4
2016–17 UEFA Champions League 2Q Norway Rosenborg 3–2 1–3 4–5
2017–18 UEFA Europa League 1Q Kosovo Prishtina 5–0 1–0 6–0
2Q Lithuania Trakai 2–1 1–2
(3–5 p)
3–3
2019–20 UEFA Europa League 1Q Republic of Ireland St Patrick's Athletic 2–1 2–0 4–1
2Q Latvia Liepāja 2–0 1–0 3–0
3Q Israel Hapoel Be'er Sheva 1–1 1–3 2–4

Records

Sweden Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson, 321 games (1949–65)
Sweden Henry "Putte" Källgren, 126 goals (1951–60)
  • Most spectators:
32 234 against Malmö FF, 7 June 1956
11–1 against Djurgårdens IF, 14 October 1945.
0 – 11 against Örgryte IS, 6 April 1928 and Helsingborgs IF, 22 September 1929

Managerial history

List of IFK Norrköping managers (1905–present)

  • Scotland Alexander "Sandy" Tait (1905)
  • England Fred Spiksley (1910)
  • England Herbert Butterworth (1921–22)
  • Hungary Imre Schlosser (1923–24)
  • Sweden Rudolf Haglund (1925–35)
  • Sweden Sölve Flisberg (1936)
  • Sweden Vilgot Lindberg (1936–37)
  • Sweden Torsten Johansson (1937–38)
  • Sweden Bengt Flisberg (1938–41)
  • Sweden Rudolf Haglund (1941)
  • Hungary Lajos Czeizler (1942–48)
  • England Eric Keen (1949)
  • Austria Karl Adamek (1950–53)
  • Sweden Torsten Lindberg (1954)
  • Austria Karl Adamek (1955–57)
  • Hungary Vilmos Varszegi (1957–62)
  • Sweden Georg Ericson (1958–66)
  • Sweden Gunnar Nordahl (1967–70)
  • Sweden Gösta Löfgren (1971–72)
  • Sweden Örjan Martinsson (1973–74)
  • Sweden Bengt Gustavsson (1975–78)
  • Sweden Gunnar Nordahl (1979–80)
  • Sweden Bo Axberg (1981–82)
  • Sweden Lars-Göran Qwist (1983–84)
  • Sweden Kent Karlsson (1985–89)
  • Sweden Jörgen Augustsson (1990)
  • Sweden Sanny Åslund (1991–92)
  • Sweden Sören Cratz (1993–94)
  • Sweden Kent Karlsson (1995)
  • Sweden Tomas Nordahl (1995)
  • England Colin Toal (1996–97)
  • Sweden Olle Nordin (1997–00)
  • Sweden Tor-Arne Fredheim (2001)
  • Sweden Bengt-Arne Strömberg (2002)
  • Sweden Håkan Ericson (2002–03)
  • Sweden Stefan Hellberg (2004–05)
  • Sweden Mats Jingblad (2005–08)
  • Sweden Sören Cratz (2007–08)
  • Sweden Göran Bergort (2009–10)
  • Sweden Janne Andersson (1 January 2011 – 23 June 2016)
  • Sweden Jens Gustafsson (24 June 2016 – 19 december 2020)
  • Sweden Rikard Norling (23 December 2020 – 11 July 2022)
  • Sweden Anes Mravac (11 July 2022 – 8 August 2022) Caretaker
  • Sweden Vedran Vucicevic (11 July 2022 – 8 August 2022) Caretaker
  • Denmark Glen Riddersholm (8 August 2022 – present)

Affiliate clubs

Other sections

IFK Norrköping also maintains departments for women's football, set up in 2009, orienteering, bowling and bandy. The bandy team played in Sweden's highest division in 1937.

Part of the club was also an ice hockey team which played in the seasons 1950/51 and 1955/56 in the highest Swedish division. The ice hockey teams of IFK and local rivals IK Sleipner were joined in 1967 to form IF IFK/IKS, known from 1973 forward as IK Vita Hästen ("Ice Hockey Club White Horse") which evolved into today's HC Vita Hästen.

See also

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