IFK Göteborg (women)

Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or simply Göteborg, is a Swedish women's football team based in Gothenburg. Founded in 2019, the team plays in Division 4 Göteborg, the 6th level of women's football in Sweden. IFK is affiliated with Göteborgs Fotbollförbund and play their home games in Prioritet Serneke Arena. The club colours are blue and white, colours shared both with the sports society which the club originated from, Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, and with the coat of arms of the city of Gothenburg.

IFK Göteborg

Full name	Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll)
Nickname(s)	Blåvitt (Blue-white) Änglarna (The Angels) Kamraterna (The Comrades)
Short name	IFK
Founded	4 October 1904 (club) 18 November 2019 (women's senior team)
Ground	Prioritet Serneke Arena, Gothenburg
Capacity	3,300
Coordinates	57.°44′18″N 12°02′06″E
Owner	Member-owned
Chairman	Mats Engström
Head coach	Cristian Loayza Peter Svanström
League	Division 4 Göteborg
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

History

IFK Göteborg fielded a women's team in the late 1910s, and the first women's match in Gothenburg was played between IFK Göteborg and a combination team in 1918, even though it was more of a frivolous exhibition match than anything else.[1] Plans to merge with Jitex BK to establish a women's team were set in motion in the 1970s, but never materialised.[2] Activities and teams for girls were finally added to the IFK Göteborg Academy programme in 2007,[3] and at an extra general meeting of IFK Göteborg in 2019, the club members voted to create a senior women's team,[4] which administratively remains part of the academy.[5]

The team started the 2020 season on the lowest level of the league pyramid with a long-term ambition of reaching the highest league, Damallsvenskan, within seven years, a previous cooperation with the senior team of Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC was ended as of this.[4][5] The squad is mainly composed of players from the under-15 team of 2019.[5] The extra general meeting also decided that the team would create its own organisation within the IFK Göteborg alliance organisation at latest on 1 January 2022.[4]

The first competitive match of the team was played on 24 June 2020 against Ösets BK, the 6–0 victory was live-streamed by the regional newspaper Göteborgs-Posten.[6] The run-up to the match was covered in an article in the well-respected Swedish football magazine Offside, written by a journalist playing for Ösets BK.[7] As most players are relatively young, the team also competes in a youth league, as well as in the under-17 national championships.[8] The team won their under-15 league twice in a row the previous years,[5] and the immediate goal for 2020 is to advance to Division 3.[8]

Players

First-team squad

As of 3 September 2020[9]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  SWE Hanna Dahl 3 DF  SWE Lilja Lidström 4 DF  SWE Selma Holmberg 5 DF  SWE Ida Landberg 5 FW  SWE Novalie Jensen 6 FW  SWE Filippa Hopkins 7 FW  SWE Alicia Hall Hellström 8 DF  SWE Vanessa Tomic 8 MF  SWE Alexandra Larsson 9 MF  SWE Thilda Gianello 10 MF  SWE Victoria Svanström 11 MF  AUT Isabella Svanström 12 GK  SWE Tilda Gustafsson 13 DF  SWE Ajla Brkovic 14 DF  SWE Malva Larsson

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 FW  BIH Enna Lukovic 17 DF  SWE Julia Thorsell 18 MF  SWE Mathilda Berg 19 DF  SWE Alva Isaksson 20 DF  SWE Johanna Lundberg 21 DF  SWE Mimmi Bauréus 25 MF  SWE Olivia Jonsson 26 DF  SWE Aliima Attervall Alase — GK  SWE Emelie Claesson — DF  SWE Sofia Fransson — DF  SWE Ashley Hall Hellström — DF  SWE Molly Lundberg — MF  SWE Stella Buer Levy — MF  SWE Rogin Shirwani —  SWE Emma Loayza Andersson

Management

Organisation

As of 3 September 2020[10][11]

Name Role Mats Engström Chairman Peter Brandt Secretary Max Markusson Club director Jonas Olsson Director of youth academy Roger Gustafsson Youth academy training manager

Technical staff

As of 3 September 2020[12][5]

Name Role Cristian Loayza Head coach Peter Svanström Head coach

Citations

1. Andersson 2002, p. 312.
2. Andersson 2011, p. 339.
3. Josephson & Jönsson 2014, p. 15.
4. Jörnvik 2019.
5. Modeér 2019.
6. Tonnvik 2020.
7. Arbman Hansing 2020.
8. Olausson 2020.
9. dam.ifkdb.se – IFK Göteborg 2020.
10. IFK Göteborg – Styrelse.
11. IFK Göteborg – Har du frågor eller funderingar kring IFK Göteborg?.
12. IFK Göteborg – IFK Göteborg F16 / Dam.

References

• Andersson, Torbjörn (2002). Kung fotboll: den svenska fotbollens kulturhistoria från 1800-talets slut till 1950 (in Swedish). Eslöv: Symposion. ISBN 91-7139-565-2.
• Andersson, Torbjörn (2011). "Spela fotboll bondjävlar!": en studie i svensk klubbkultur och lokal identitet från 1950 till 2000-talets början (in Swedish). 1. Stockholm: Symposion. ISBN 978-91-7139-868-0.
• Arbman Hansing, Sanna (2020). "Möte med framtiden". Offside (in Swedish). No. 4. Offside Press. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
• "Har du frågor eller funderingar kring IFK Göteborg?" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
• "IFK Göteborg 2020" (in Swedish). dam.ifkdb.se. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
• "IFK Göteborg F16 / Dam" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
• Josephson, Åke; Jönsson, Ingemar, eds. (2014). IFK Göteborg 2004–2014: nu fortsätter vi att berätta historien (in Swedish). Göteborg: IFK Göteborg. ISBN 978-91-637-6596-4.
• Jörnvik, Ulf (18 November 2019). "Historiskt ögonblick på extra årsmötet" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
• Modeér, Marcus (12 December 2019). "Blåvitts damlag är igång" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
• Olausson, Alexander (24 June 2020). "Historiska IFK Göteborg visar vägen för unga tjejer" (in Swedish). Göteborgs-Posten. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
• "Styrelse" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
• Tonnvik, Emma (24 June 2020). "Historisk seger för IFK Göteborg – dominerade i premiären" (in Swedish). Göteborgs-Posten. Retrieved 3 September 2020.

External links

• Official website