IFK Luleå

IFK Luleå is a Swedish sports club from Luleå. The association founded in 1900, is best known for its football team, which played a season in the Premier League, but currently only competes unterklassig. The ice hockey team of the club split off in 1977 to start with Luleå SK later Swedish champions Luleå HF.

History

The IFK Luleå was founded in 1900 and is the oldest sports club of the place. Since North Swedish teams were eliminated in the early years of Swedish football of the higher leagues, the team was able to reach up to the country-wide opening in the early 1950s, no national merit.

1954 IFK Luleå first played with for promotion to the second division, but could at the end of the season only take second place behind Up IFK Holmsund. Two years later succeeded with nine points ahead of runner-up Skellefteå IF the relay victory, and that the rise in the Swedish House of Commons. In the relay Norrland, the team was able to establish quickly and managed to 1959, the first season championship. In the rise playing for Allsvenskan they met Jönköping Södra IF. A 1-2 defeat in the first leg was followed by a crushing 0:7 defeat on foreign space. A year later, IFK Luleå could again qualify for the promotion games that have meanwhile been discharged in league form. After IF Elfsborg and Örebro SK took the team with only one win against bottom club IFK Kristianstad only the third place and thus missed the rise again.

In the following years it went downhill for IFK Luleå and 1964 could be assigned to seven points to take the final place. In Division 3 Norrland Övre the team, however, earned the championship title right away and was able to celebrate the immediate return to the second division. There, the club sat stuck in the middle part of the table, before 1970 surprisingly succeeded in re- season victory. The opponents in the promotion round were called Landskrona BoIS, Sandvikens IF and Skövde AIK. With a win and two draws IFK Luleå took second place and thus promotion to the Swedish Elite Series.

THe Allsvenskan proved too strong for IFK Luleå. With four wins this season and six draws only 14 points were brought too little for the league. The following season the Erstligaabsteiger against the slip fought in the third division. With one point ahead of relegated Domsjö IF however this could be initially avoided a year later relegation was only occupied. The direct revival followed the re descent.

After a few years in the middle of the third division to IFK Luleå early 1980s reported back to the front of the table. However, several times was only the second space will be occupied.

In 1986, IFK Luleå Luleå FF with local rivals, who played in the second division, a game community. The hoped-for recovery through the pooling of forces did not materialize, you could only in the middle part of the table place. Until 1989 the team ran under the name Luleå FF / IFK Luleå, then he called the name only IFK Luleå. At the beginning of the 1990s, the team was back in the top flight of the league. In 1992, the club qualified for the promotion round to the Allsvenskan, but failed after a 2-1 home victory with a 2:4 defeat in the return leg at Västra Frölunda IF. In the following years could not confirm the success and placed itself only in the middle of the table. In 1998 the team was relegated from the Table and was incorporated into the Division 3 Norra Norrland fourth-rate.

2000 managed IFK Luleå as a master promotion to the third division, which just missed the season winner of the walkover to the Swedish House of Commons. In the rise of games to IF Brommapojkarna proved too strong and both games could decide for themselves.

2005 IFK Luleå fell victim to reform the League and was assigned as seventh in the now fourth-rate Division 2. As a four-time runner-up after another in the following years behind IFK Timrå, Ersboda SK, Skellefteå FF respectively soil BK was the club just ahead of a return to the third tier. It was not until 2010, put the club ahead of last year by relegated Skellefteå FF and got back up.

Known player

• Fredric Lundqvist