Avesta AIK
| Avesta AIK | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Avesta Allmänna Idrottsklubb |
| Seat | Avesta |
| founding | 1905 |
| Website | idrottonline.se |
| First soccer team | |
| Venue | Avestavallen, |
| Places | approx. 5000 |
| league | Division 3 |
| 2010 | 1st place (Division 4 Dalarna, promotion) |
Avesta AIK is a Swedish football club from Avesta . The team played several seasons in Sweden's second division .
history
Early years
Founded in 1905 as Avesta Absolutisters Idrottsklubb , the club changed its name to Avesta Allmänna Idrottsklubb in 1916 . For a long time only represented in the regional league rankings, the team won the relay championship in their third division season for the first time in 1941, but failed in the promotion games to Ljusne AIK . Without defeat in the course of the season, the club repeated the season win the following year when IFK Grängesberg and Långshyttans AIK were distanced by eight points. This time the club prevailed against Iggesunds IK .
Between second and third league
In the first second division season in the club's history, Avesta AIK had no chance, as bottom of the table, the club occupied a relegation place together with Surahammars IF . The stay in the third division lasted only one season, however, as the season winner, the team met again in the promotion round on Iggesunds IK and prevailed again. The team managed to stay up with two and six points respectively over Hallstahammars SK and Gefle IF before the club achieved the best result in the club's history in the season 1945/46 and, as second behind Surahammars IF, missed the promotion games to Allsvenskan by one point. The soaring did not last long, in the following season the club was downgraded as a table eight as part of a league reform one league.
Avesta AIK established itself in the third division and returned to the second division for one season in 1953/54. If the team then missed promotion as a relegated team behind Surahammars IF as second in the table, they prevailed as the season winner the following year. Again, the club was only represented one season in the second division and ended the season 1956/57 together with IK City and Karlstads BIK on a relegation zone. This time the direct re-promotion succeeded and then the club held in the second division. In 1960 as fourth in the table, however, with 15 points behind the season winner Örebro SK again placed in the front of the table, the club then slipped back into the relegation battle and in 1963 re-entered the third division. Equal on points with Västerås SK , the club missed direct promotion due to the worse goal difference , but distanced the table runner-up Hallstahammars SK by eight points in the subsequent season. In 1966, ranking in the last non-relegation place, four season victories were too few for relegation in the following season.
Slipping into the lower league area
After relegation to the second division, Avesta AIK placed itself in the middle of the table in its third division season. In 1969, once again fourth in the table, the team played against relegation in the following years. In 1973, the team ended the season on a relegation zone and ranked in the middle of the table of the fourth level in the following years. In the meantime only placed in the lower-class regional playing area, the team made it into the third division again at the end of the 1991 season.
In the spring championship 1992 table bottom, the stay in the third division for Avesta AIK was over after almost three months. After an eighth place in the following season, the team played again in 1994 for promotion, but missed a promotion position as third in the table. Two years later, the club said goodbye to higher-class football when they were twelfth in the table. In 2005 the club reported back in the fourth division and at the end of the season survived a league reform at the level of the game. In the following years, the club slipped again to the sixth division, before being promoted back to the fifth division in Division 3 in 2010.