IK Brage

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IK Brage
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Basic data
Surname Idrottsklubben Brage
Seat Borlange , Sweden
founding April 7, 1925
Colours green white
president Lars Ivarsson
Website ikbrage.se
First soccer team
Head coach Bengt Ottosson
Venue Domnarvsvallen
Places approx. 6,500
league Superettan
2019 3rd place, Superettan
home
Away

Idrottsklubben Brage is a Swedish football club from the city of Borlänge . The club currently plays in the second Swedish division , which now has a total of fifty seasons. For a long time they were also represented in the Allsvenskan . In addition to soccer, the club also had a department for ice hockey from 1945 to 1963. The football team has played its home games in the Domnarvsvallen stadium since it was founded in 1925 .

Soccer team

IK Brage was founded on April 7, 1925. The first promotion to the Allsvenskan was achieved by the soccer team in 1937 and they stayed in the first division until 1941, with fourth place in the table being achieved in 1939 and 1940. After two years in the second division, they rose again for one season in 1943 before the club initially disappeared a bit. In 1947, for example, the club was relegated to Division 3, which was then third class. In 1950 you could then play in Division 2 and in 1956 were about to be promoted again to the Allsvenskan. However, they had to admit defeat to IFK Malmö in two qualifying games (0: 1 in Borlänge and 2: 2 in Malmö). In 1965, however, the Allsvenskan qualified for the 1966 season. However, after this year, IK Brage was immediately relegated.

In the 1970s, the club shuttled back and forth between the second and third division before Rolf Zetterlund was hired as coach . Under his leadership, the team returned to the Allsvenskan in 1979. The first two seasons 1980 and 1981, Zetterlund left the team in January 1981 in the direction of AIK , you could finish with 4th place.

With the placement in 1981 IK Brage qualified for the UEFA Cup 1982/83 . In the first round, the team prevailed after a 2-1 away win with a 2-2 draw in the second leg against Lyngby BK from Denmark, but failed in the following round to Werder Bremen , who scored two wins in the duel with the Swedes . In 1988 the IK Brage again qualified for the Uefa Cup, where the Italian top club Inter Milan , supervised by Giovanni Trapattoni , waited in the first round . IK Brage was able to make the duels surprisingly open, but with players like Lothar Matthäus or Andreas Brehme in its ranks, the favorite ultimately prevailed: The first leg in Milan was only lost 2-1 in the last minute of the game and Brage was able to up in the second leg to keep up to the last quarter of an hour (1: 1), but also lost this game 2: 1.

The heyday of the IK Brage ended in the 1980s. So they relegated in 1990 and initially played for two years in the second division. In 1993 they played another season in the Allsvenskan. In the following years the club played in the second division 1. In 2002, the club was one point behind the tied teams Gefle IF , IF Brommapojkarna and IF Sylvia , only one relegation place and rose to the third division 2 Västra Svealand . There the championship title was won and the club had to play in the promotion games against Jönköpings Södra IF . With clear 4-0 and 5-0 successes, the team was able to make the return to the second division perfectly. In the second division, which has now been renamed Superettan , only five wins of the season come, so that the club Enköpings SK and Friska Viljor FC accompanied on the move to the third division.

In Division 2 Norra Svealand , IK Brage only finished eighth. Since the league was reformed and the number of third division squadrons was reduced, this meant that although IK Brage remained in Division 2, this was now only fourth class. As a runner-up behind Skiljebo SK , the team missed the direct return to the third division, which was managed as champions with only one season defeat in the 2007 season. In the 2009 season , he even managed to return to the second-class Superettan .

Eternal table

Thanks to 18 seasons in the Allsvenskan, the club is ranked 20th in the all-time table of this division. In the all-time table of the second division, where they spent 50 seasons, the club is third behind Landskrona BoIS and IFK Eskilstuna . (Status: after 2011)

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