Ã…tvidabergs FF

Åtvidabergs FF ( Åtvidabergs Fotbollförening ), short AFF or " Åtvid ", is a football club based in Åtvidaberg in Sweden. He was a two-time Cup winner and Swedish champion.

History

Foundation

Its predecessor Åtvidabergs IF was founded on July 1, 1907. 1935 was followed by the splitting of this general sports club in individual departments, from which the AFF emerged.

Initial success ( 1929-32 )

In the club was played from the beginning football, but only in the late 1920s to a successes. The club won in four years three times each in the championship of the league of its own and thus rose to more and more:

  • 1928/29 season - championship in the Division V
  • Season 1929/30 - Championship in Division IV
  • Season 1931/32 - Championship in Division III

Rise in high Divisions ( 1933-44 )

In the season 1932/33, the club that is played for the first time in the Division 2 However, it increased in 1935, the year of the splitting of the AIF in the AFF from.

Despite a second place in the Division III in 1940 managed to rise again, as the football club of Waggeryd, actually the master, for economic reasons, gave up the climb.

Guest appearances in Allsvenskan ( 1945-52 )

Five years later, in the season 1944/45, under the Hungarian coach Kálmán Konrád, the club won the Division II, but failed in the qualifying match for the Allsvenskan against IF Djurgårdens with 0:3.

The next opportunity arose after the season 1950/51, as the AFF again won the Division II Nordöstra ( North Sweden). This time you did not need a qualifier and was thus the following season playing in the highest Swedish league.

However, the season was a debacle. With a 2-1 win over Jönköping Södra IF only managed a victory.

Descent and return ( 1953-67 )

Therefore, the AFF put up at the Division II and played there for several years until he in 1959 even had to Division III. However, the direct back in the Bundesliga.

1967 won the team division II Norra Gotland and could in the qualification to Allsvenskan. There they defeated IK Brage and Sandvikens IF, each with 2-0 and the climb was so perfect.

Heyday of the Association ( 1968-74 )

In 1968 the club played back in Allsvenskan, where the coming years should bring the greatest successes of the club's history. At this time the club enjoyed financial support from the then resident in Åtvidaberg calculating machines manufacturer Facit AB.

Even in the first season managed a 7th place. The player Owe Eklund was top scorer with 17 goals. The association grew slowly in the top tier of league: after a 4th place in 1969 they finished in the years 1970 and 1971 for second place.

In these two years, also won the Swedish Cup. This will also participate in the European Cup Winners' Cup was possible. 1971 achieved a minor sensation when it defeated the strong team of Chelsea.

The successes were also in the following year. 1972 it was the first time Swedish champion and had. Using the two strikers Ralf Edström and Roland Sandberg, the two scorers on the team, who shot 16 goals each

Despite the departure of the two players, the club successfully defended the championship in 1973. It get to kick off nine consecutive victories and despite a weak autumn could catch no other club. This autumn they met in the European Cup of Champions at Bayern Munich, where one had to admit defeat. The Bavaria later succeeded in winning the competition. They also recruited from the player Conny Torstensson, who had scored two goals in the national champion cup match.

As a result, other key performers of the team of top clubs have been lured away, and it became increasingly difficult to keep up for the AFF, at this high level. Nonetheless the Cup succeeded the national champion 1974/75 with the quarter-finals of the biggest success so far. The two games against FC Barcelona but lost a total of 0:5. Both meetings were held in Barcelona, ​​because the Spanish club had paid for this.

Slow descent ( 1975-91 )

The aff could not build on the successes. In 1975 he finished seventh in the Allsvenskan. The following year, the club was forced to leave the highest league and played again in Division II in the 1977 season it was there champion and so managed to rise again.

It was followed by several years with moderate success. Until 1982, when they finished the last place, you could keep in Allsvenskan. Despite the chance to defend in the qualifiers against Mjallby AIF the class, they lost in the games with 0:1 and 1:1.

You could hold their own in Division II in 1984 and got even another chance to climb back into the top league. However, they lost the qualification to Trelleborg FF with a total of 3-2. After the demise of the team began. They played a few more years in this last designated as a Division I league, until 1989 also descended from this.

From then on, the descent went quickly. Only two years later, you had to Division III.

Return to professional football (1992-2004)

However, the climb went quite fast. 1993 one could ascend to Division II after victories against Gullringens GoIF ( 4:2 ) and IK Tord (3:1) again. Two years later they again reached the First Division

A return to the Allsvenskan remained the club for a long time denied. 1998 were the prospects good, but due to a weak conclusion could only be reached 4th place. Similarly, the union of the two second division leagues in Germany were united in Sweden, the two Division I leagues in 2000 Superettan. The AFF was thus forced to descend, but did after a good end of season 2001 rise in the new league. 2003, the club reached the fourth place there.

Sporting successes as well as the rise in the Allsvenskan (since 2005)

2005 made ​​it the AFF in the final of the Swedish Cup, but lost there against the currently reigning champions Djurgårdens IF. The AFF still got a place in the qualification of the UEFA Cup in the 2006/07 season because the Cup Winners already had a place in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League. In the first qualifying round, get two wins against Etzella Ettelbrück (4:0 and 3:0 in Ettelbrück ). Two draw against the Norwegian club SK Brann ( 3:3 and 1:1 in Bergen ) could aff move into the UEFA Cup, as more away goals were achieved.

In the 2009 season AFF succeeded with 57 points and 2nd in the Superettan return to the Allsvenskan. In the following year, however, the class could not be maintained, thus the club went back to the Superettan. 2011 and failed to promotion back to the Allsvenskan as a master of Superettan.

Achievements

In the eternal table of Allsvenskan, the club occupies the 18th place (as after the 2011 season ).

  • Allsvenskan: Master (2): 1972, 1973
  • Runner-up (2): 1970, 1971
  • Winner (2): 1969-70, 1970-71
  • Finalist (4): 1946, 1972-73, 1978-79, 2005

Best-known players

Jerseys

The players of the club normally wear blue shirts, white shorts and red stockings. The away jerseys are made of red shirts, red shorts and white socks.

Audience

The home ground of the association is the Kopparvallen in Åtvidaberg, which holds around 8000 spectators. A record number of visitors experienced the Game against IFK Norrköping in 1968, when 11,200 spectators came.

The official fan club of the association are the Kopparslagarna who founded from the remains of the former clubs Brukets Blåställ.

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