IFK Malmö

IFK Malmö is a Swedish sports club in Malmo. Companies are the sports athletics, football, handball, hockey, ice hockey, bandy, boxing, wrestling, swimming, orienteering, bowling and bridge. Due to the yellow shirts of the athletes, the club was nicknamed Di Gule ( in German: the yellow ).

The club was founded on 23 April 1899, was until 1903 a pure athletics club.

Sections ( selection)

Football

Since 1903, it operates in the football club. Most of the players came from Malmö Velociped Klubb, which was dissolved shortly before. The team was one of the teams that played in the first season of Allsvenskan 1924. After yet the relegation had been done in the first season as a third- Last, the club in 1926 rose for the first time from out of the first division. However, the club succeeded in the second year of the second class as a master of Sydsvenska series to qualify for the promotion games, where defeated on neutral ground Redbergslids IK necessary decision-making game with 3:1 and thus the re-emergence could be made perfect.

IFK played in the years to turn against relegation, before 1932, the season was ended only on a relegation again. First, the team played for the return to the top flight. 1936 was followed, however, the crash in the third division. In the area occupied by IS Halmia safe shore missing two points.

IFK took two years to return to the second division can. The team established himself in midfield and could be involved over again from the mid- 1940s. 1952 succeeded as winner of Division 2 Season Sydvästra seven points clear on Halmstad BK return to the Allsvenskan.

As Table IFK Malmö but grew directly out of the first division again. The direct re-emergence was missed as a table in fourth. After the runner-up title behind Norrby IF 1954 succeeded the following year after a 2-2 draw and a 1-0 win against IK Brage return to the Elite series.

Nicknamed the team initially rear center field seats, succeeded in playing time in 1960, surprisingly, the runner-up behind IFK Norrköping. A sixth place followed 1962, the departure from the first division.

Currently, IFK Malmö played in Division 3 ( 5.Liga ) in the group Södra Götaland. The greatest international success was reaching the quarter-finals in the European Champions Cup, but where you eliminated against Rapid Vienna.

Historically, IFK Malmö was the football club of the middle class and the club Malmö FF of the working class.

Handball

Since 1929, there are women's handball at IFK Malmö and a few years later also a section for men was established. The men's team in 1942 was the first time in the highest Swedish league, the Elitserien, and was able to establish there for several years. More recently, the men's team usually plays in the second division.