IFK Norrköping

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.[1] 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.

IFK Norrköping
Full nameIdrottsföreningen
Kamraterna Norrköping
Nickname(s)Peking (Beijing)
Snoka
Kamraterna (The comrades)
VitaBlå (WhiteBlue)
Founded29 May 1897 (1897-05-29)
StadiumÖstgötaporten
Capacity17,234
ChairmanPeter Hunt
ManagerRikard Norling
LeagueAllsvenskan
2020Allsvenskan, 6th
WebsiteClub website
A chart showing the progress of IFK Norrköping through the swedish football league system. The different shades of gray represent league divisions.
Östgötaporten
IFK Norrköping supporter group Peking Fanz.

The club plays in the highest Swedish tier, Allsvenskan, which they first won in 1943.[2] 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.[3] 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
As of 23 January 2021[4]

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 Oscar Jansson
2 DF  SWE Henrik Castegren
3 DF  ISL Finnur Tómas Pálmason
4 DF  LUX Lars Krogh Gerson
5 FW  SWE Christoffer Nyman
6 DF  SWE Linus Wahlqvist
7 MF  SWE Alexander Fransson
8 FW  SWE Linus Hallenius
9 MF  NGA Samuel Adegbenro
10 MF  SWE Jonathan Levi
11 DF  SWE Christopher Telo
No. Pos. Nation Player
13 MF  NGA Ishaq Abdulrazak
14 DF  ALB Egzon Binaku
20 DF  HON Kevin Álvarez
21 MF  SWE Simon Thern
22 MF  SWE Manasse Kusu
23 MF  SWE Maic Sema
26 MF  SWE Kristoffer Khazeni
27 MF  ISL Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson
28 DF  ISL Oliver Stefánsson
29 GK  SWE Julius Lindgren
99 MF  MNE Sead Hakšabanović

Out on loan
As of 4 August 2020

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
15 FW  SWE Carl Björk (at Trelleborgs FF until 8 January 2021)
30 GK  SWE Felix Jakobsson (at IF Sylvia until 8 January 2021)
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 DF  SWE Theodore Rask (at IF Sylvia until 8 January 2021)

Retired numbers
  • 12 – Fans of the club

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

Allsvenskan

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

Management

Technical staff

As of 10 January 2020[5]

Name Role
Rikard Norling Head coach
Kim Hellberg Assistant coach
Stefan Hellberg Assistant coach
Marcus Falk-Olander Fitness coach
Maths Elfvendal Goalkeeping coach
Tony Martinsson Youth academy director[6]
Physiotherapist
Peter Rockborn Club doctor
Peter Cratz Club doctor
Bengt Janzon Club doctor
Daniel Ekwall Mental coach
Lennart Linder Equipment manager
Håkan Wetell Human Resource

Achievements

League
1963: Bengt Nyholm, the keeper of IFK Norrköping, tries to improve his effectiveness by applying glue from flypaper to his hands

Cups

IFK Norrköping in Europe
Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1956–57 European Cup 1R Florentina 0–1 1–1 1–2
1957–58 European Cup 1R Red Star Belgrade 2–2 1–2 3–4
1962–63 European Cup PR Partizani Tirana 2–0 1–1 3–1
1R Benfica 1–1 1–5 2–6
1963–64 European Cup PR Standard Liége 2–0 0–1 2–1
1R Milan 1–1 2–5 3–6
1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Crusaders 4–1 2–2 6–3
2R Lyn 3–2 0–2 3–4
1969–70 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Sliema Wanderers 5–1 0–1 5–2
2R Schalke 04 0–0 0–1 0–1
1972–73 UEFA Cup 1R Flamura Roşie Arad 2–0 2–1 4–1
2R Inter Milan 0–2 2–2 2–4
1978–79 UEFA Cup 1R Hibernian 0–0 2–3 2–3
1982–83 UEFA Cup 1R Southampton 0–0 2–2 2–2 (a)
2R Roma 1–0 0–1
(2–4 p)		 1–1
1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Sampdoria 2–1 0–2 2–3
1990–91 UEFA Cup 1R 1. FC Köln 0–0 1–3 1–3
1991–92 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Jeunesse Esch 4–0 2–1 6–1
2R Monaco 1–2 0–1 1–3
1992–93 UEFA Cup 1R Torino 1–0 0–3 1–3
1993–94 UEFA Cup 1R KV Mechelen 0–1 1–1
(aet)		 1–2
1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup QR Viktoria Žižkov 3–3 0–1 3–4
2000–01 UEFA Cup QR GÍ 2–1 2–0 4–1
1R Slovan Liberec 2–2 1–2 3–4
2016–17 UEFA Champions League 2Q Rosenborg 3–2 1–3 4–5
2017–18 UEFA Europa League 1Q Prishtina 5–0 1–0 6–0
2Q Trakai 2–1 1–2
(3–5 p)		 3–3
2019–20 UEFA Europa League 1Q St Patrick's Athletic 2–1 2–0 4–1
2Q Liepāja 2–0 1–0 3–0
3Q Hapoel Be'er Sheva 1–1 1–3 2–4

Records
Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson, 321 games (1949–65)
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
  • Most expensive player:
Midfielder Alexander Fransson, from FC Basel for approximately 10 million SEK, 2018.
  • Most expensive sale:
Midfielder/Forward Arnór Sigurdsson, to CSKA Moscow for approximately 40 million SEK, 2016.

Managerial history

List of IFK Norrköping managers 1905– [8] [9] [10]

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.

Footnotes
  1. 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 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 season to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the title was decided by the winner of Mästerskapsserien, an additional league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan.[7]

References
  1. "Kontaktuppgifter och tävlingar – Östergötlands Fotbollförbund – Svenskfotboll.se". Retrieved 12 January 2011.
  2. "Svenska mästare 1896–1925, 1931–". svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  3. http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/sverige/allsvenskan/ifknorrkoping/article21682097.ab
  4. "IFK Norrköpings trupp" (in Swedish). IFK Norrköping. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  5. Truppen‚ ifknorrkoping.se, 4 January 2018
  6. Tony Martinsson‚ ifknorrkopingungdom.se, 4 January 2018
  7. "Svenska mästare 1896–1925, 1931–" [Swedish champions 1896–1925, 1931–]. svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  8. IFK Norrköping tränare 1921–2003 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine‚ gruvstugan.com, 6 January 2018
  9. IFK Norrköpings historia – Tränare/Lagledare‚ tomasjunglander.se, 7 January 2018
  10. IFK Norrköpings historia – lagbild 1905‚ tomasjunglander.se, 7 January 2018
  11. Samarbetet med Sylvia‚ svenskafans.com, 21 January 2014
  12. Officiellt: Husqvarna FF lånar Julius Lindgren‚ svenskafans.com, 24 August 2017
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