Södertälje SK
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| history | Södertälje SK (since 1902) |
| Location | Södertälje , Sweden |
| Club colors | blue White Red |
| league | HockeyAllsvenskan |
| Venue | Scania rinks |
| capacity | 6,100 seats |
| executive Director | Stefan Jonsson |
| Head coach | Peter Popovic |
| captain | Joakim Eriksson |
| Season 2017/18 | 8th place (Allsvenskan) |
Södertälje SK (Södertälje Sportklubb) is a Swedish ice hockey club from Södertälje near Stockholm . The club plays in the second-class Allsvenskan and plays its home games in the AXA Sports Center for 6,100 spectators.
history
Södertälje SK was founded in 1902 with the departments gymnastics , athletics , football , tug of war and ice skating . After a bandy section followed in 1907 , the ice hockey department founded in 1925 was not far away. At the same time, the club could look forward to the first Swedish championship . Six more should follow to this day (1931, 1941, 1944, 1953, 1956, 1985).
In 1975 Södertälje SK was a founding member of the Elitserien , but the first descent into the second division soon followed. After consistently good placements before 1975, the success was abruptly lost when he entered the Elitserien. In 1978 the club was relegated to the second division and stayed there except for an interlude of one season (1980/81) until 1983. After the championship in HockeyAllsvenskan , success in the first division returned: 1985 Södertälje was - so far the last Mal - Swedish champion. But from third place in 1989 the results went downhill again. In 6th and 7th place followed 12th place and the renewed transition to the second class, from which the traditional club was only able to rise again four years later. After three third places in 1996, the runner-up title in the second division was enough. The following year, the relegation games were able to save Södertälje, but not again in 1998. In the following season in the Allsvenskan you could be second division champion, but you could not prevail in the relegation games for promotion. In the third attempt, the ascent succeeded in 2001. After three times rank 9 and the surprising fourth place in 2005, it was again only enough for 11th place in 2006. And the “Södertälje Lightnings” also had no luck in the subsequent relegation; third place was not enough to keep them up, which is why the team played in the Allsvenskan in 2006/07.
After a season in the second division, the club rose again and was able to secure relegation at the end of the 2007/08 season. After the league was won in the Kvalserien in the 2009/10 season , the club rose one season later to the HockeyAllsvenskan, where he played until 2015.
In 2015, the team was relegated to the third-rate hockey team, but qualified directly for the Allsvenskan again for the 2016/17 season.
Venues
The first ice rink in Södertälje SK was called Gamla IP . This 1902 built hall was established in 1960 by the Månskensrinken replaced, the but only 10 years home should remain the SSK, because 1970 was Scaniarinken inaugurated. Although it holds more than 1,000 spectators more than the current arena, it was not luxurious enough and had too few boxes. That is why the team moved to the new Scaniarink in 2006 , which was first called the SSK Event Arena , later the AXA Sports Center .
