Alingsås IF

Alingsås IF is a Swedish sports club from Alingsås. The football team played in the 1930s and the 1960s, each briefly in the second highest Swedish league.

History

Alingsås IF founded in 1906 and first played at unterklassig introduction of the Swedish league pyramid in the 1920s. After the club was promoted to the third division in 1932, he established himself at once in the front area, reaching in 1935 as the winner of Season offs for promotion to the second division. There she lost indeed against Oskarströms IS, however, the competitor withdrew for financial reasons and Alingsås IF rose. In the second division the club played against the direct re- descent, which was only avoided due to the better Torquotienten compared with the same number of points rivals IFK Värnamo. The following year, the team surprised in third place behind Degerfors IF and IF Karlskoga, before relegation to the third tier at the end of the third season in the second division as a table Penultimate together with Karlstads BIK.

After descending to Alingsås IF established in the mid table area its third league season, but the team is temporarily fell into danger of relegation. When reducing the number of squadrons from 17 to four at the end of the season 1946/47, the club victims of the League reform. In the late 1950s, the club slipped off to the Fünftklassigkeit, but returned to the game time in 1962 back to the third tier. Already in the second season at this level of play the team played to the promotion back to the second division, only the inferior goal difference compared to the same point scale winning Grimsås IF 1963 prevented the return. Two years later, the club announced as winner ahead Season Kinna IF back in the second tier.

As in fifth Alingsås IF landed in the first year in the upper middle and was able to confirm this position as fourth in the following year. Again took the stay in the second division three years, together with Norrby IF and BK Derby took the club into the relegation zone in 1968. In the third division, the team initially played by the revival, which has been repeatedly missed only as a table runner or third scarce. The season ended in 1986 bitterly for the club: Had he, at worst, placed in previous years in the mid- league field, managed just one win of the season. Because again, the squadron number was reduced in the course of a league reform, the last place in the table was tantamount to a demotion to the Fünftklassigkeit.

After Alingsås IF had returned end of the season 1992 in the fourth league already succeeded at the end of 1994 Spielzueit to rise again in the third league. Here, however, the club could not keep up and climbed as Table directly from again and was then passed through to the late 1990s in the sixth league. Returned in the fifth league in 2001, commuted the club in the following years between the fifth and sixth level of play.