IFK Luleå
| IFK Luleå | |||
| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Luleå |
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| Seat | Luleå , Sweden | ||
| founding | 1900 | ||
| Website | ifklulea.se | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Skogsvallen | ||
| Places | 5,000 | ||
| league | Division 1 Norra | ||
| 2019 | 1st place ( Division 2 Norrland ) | ||
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The IFK Luleå is a Swedish sports club from Luleå . The club, founded in 1900, is best known for its soccer team , which played one season in the first division, but currently only competes in a lower class. The club's ice hockey team split off in 1977 to found Luleå SK, the later Swedish champions Luleå HF .
history
IFK Luleå was founded in 1900, making it the town's oldest sports club. Since northern Swedish teams were excluded from the higher leagues in the early years of Swedish football, the team could not achieve any national merits until the nationwide opening in the early 1950s.
In 1954 IFK Luleå played for the first time for promotion to the second division , but at the end of the season could only occupy second place behind promoted IFK Holmsund . Two years later succeeded with nine points ahead of runner-up Skellefteå IF the relay victory and thus promotion to the Swedish lower house. In the Norrland season, the team was able to establish itself quickly and in 1959 made the first season championship. In the promotion games to Allsvenskan you met Jönköpings Södra IF . A 1: 2 defeat in the first leg was followed by a bitter 0: 7 defeat on a foreign place. A year later, IFK Luleå was able to qualify again for the promotion games, which have now been played in league form. Behind IF Elfsborg and Örebro SK , the team finished third with just one win over bottom IFK Kristianstad and thus again missed promotion.
In the following years IFK Luleå went downhill and in 1964 only the last place could be occupied with seven points. In Division 3 Norrland Övre , however, the team won the championship title straight away and was able to celebrate an immediate return to the second division. There the club settled in the middle part of the table before surprisingly succeeded in 1970 again winning the season. The opponents in the promotion round were Landskrona BoIS , Sandvikens IF and Skövde AIK . With one win and two draws, IFK Luleå finished second and thus made it into the Swedish elite series.
The Allsvenskan proved too strong for IFK Luleå. With four wins this season and six draws, only 14 points were scored, not enough to stay in the league. In the following season, the first division relegated fought against the slide into the third division. With one point ahead of relegated Domsjö IF , this could initially be avoided, a year later only one relegation place was occupied. The direct ascent was followed by another descent.
After a few years in the middle of the third division, IFK Luleå reported back to the top of the table in the early 1980s. However, only the second place could be occupied several times.
In 1986 IFK Luleå founded a syndicate with local rivals Luleå FF , who played in the second division. The hoped-for upswing through the pooling of forces did not materialize, however, and you could only place yourself in the middle of the table. Until 1989 the team ran under the name Luleå FF / IFK Luleå, then it was only called IFK Luleå. At the beginning of the 1990s, the team reported back in the top flight of the league. In 1992, the club qualified for the promotion round to Allsvenskan, but failed after a 2-1 home win with a 2-4 defeat in the second leg at Västra Frölunda IF . In the following years the success could not be confirmed and only placed in the middle of the table. In 1998 the team was relegated from bottom of the table and was incorporated into the fourth-class Division 3 Norra Norrland .
In 2000 IFK Luleå managed as champions the promotion to the third division, where as the season winner the march into the Swedish lower house just missed. In the promotion games IF Brommapojkarna proved to be too strong and could decide both games for themselves.
In 2005 IFK Luleå fell victim to the league reform and was assigned as seventh in the table of the meanwhile fourth class Division 2. As a four-time runner-up in a row in the following years behind IFK Timrå , Ersboda SK , Skellefteå FF and Bodens BK , the club was just about to return to the third division. It was not until 2010 that the club prevailed ahead of last year's relegation Skellefteå FF and rose again.