IK Sleipner
The IK Sleipner, often just known as Sleipner is a sports club based in Norrköping in Sweden, which is active among others in football and bowling. He was a Swedish football champions in 1938 and played until 1941 a total of 16 seasons in the top Swedish league Allsvenskan. The jerseys of the club are traditionally blue and white stripes in contrasting color, the motto of the association is Randigt är roligt (German Striped is funny ). The Hockey section of the club took in the 1940s repeatedly participated in the then still in the Cup mode discharged Swedish Championship.
History
Early years
The club was founded April 27, 1903 in an inaugural meeting, which took place in a tailor workshop. Initiators were some messenger boys who do not feel comfortable in dominated by high school students IFK Norrköping. The club was therefore subsequently considered for a long time as a worker team. The name comes from the Sleipner Sleipnir horse of the Norse god Odin.
Sleipner played for the first time in 1920 at the Swedish Championship. The game against Djurgårdens IF in Stockholm Olympic Stadium but lost after Harry Strundberg had transformed a penalty in the 30th minute with 0:1. The following year, played in the same place again for the championship, this time against IFK Eskilstuna. They went first with a goal by Bertil Kollberg lead but conceded two goals in the final minutes by Gösta Pettersson and Henning Olsson, so that it again was not enough for the Championship Final 1:2.
Successful years in the makings
Sleipner was also there when the Allsvenskan was introduced as a top league. The founding member of hers from their first season in 1924/25 until the season 1932/33. A year after the first descent of the club was able to return to the league again and then took part in throughout the season until the 1940/41.
The biggest success in club history succeeded in season 1937/38, when you could distance himself from the trio Landskrona BoIS, Helsingborgs IF and IF Elfsborg by 4 points and Swedish champion. The League Second Landskrona could even beat 6-0.
Between second and fourth level of play
After descending 1941 IK Sleipner belonged in the 1940s to the second division. In part, the team narrowly missed out on a return to the House of Lords. Nevertheless overtook the local rivals IFK Norrkoping, which has since also has the greater interest of the inhabitants of Norrköping, over the decade the club. In 1950, he even rose from the Drittklassigekeit. Three years later, the return and the club succeeded in establishing itself in the following years in the middle of the second division, before retiring in 1960 to descend again. The direct revival followed the re- descent and 1964, the crash in the Viertklassigkeit.
After two ascents IK Sleipner returned in 1968 to the second division back. Here, the team held nearly a decade and played partially at the front of the league. 1977 faced the club from Norrköping again the passage in the third league start. There succeeded the relay victory and in the promotion round he sat by with Degerfors IF. Initially the team played against relegation, which was only in 1980 thanks to the better goal against the same number of points IFK Kristianstad avoided. Two years later, she took a relegation place and missed against IF Heimer relegation.
1986 IK Sleipner victim of a league reform and was demoted as seventh in the third-tier Division 3 Nordöstra Götaland in the fourth league. 1988 succeeded where the relay victory in the third division and missed the team with two points behind Tyresö FF as runner march through to the second division. After the team was allowed to begin second-rate as Spring Champions 1991 and 1992 in the autumn, but had missed the league both times, she managed the 1993 re-emergence in the second division. There she missed as Tabellenvorletzte the league and were relegated with Jonsered IF, Karlskrona AIF and Lunds BK. After two years in the middle of the league the club get into the season 1997, only four wins this season, so again decency, the descent into the fourth league.
Current Situation
1998 succeeded IK Sleipner promotion to the Division 2 Östra Götaland third-rate. First, the team played against relegation, which was averted in 2000 only in the relegation matches against LSW IF. In the following years it went uphill and 2004 jumped out a fourth place at end of season. In the following season the club was the victim of a league reform in Sweden: in fifth had to play the team in a relegation round against Anundsjö IF and Falu BS and increased after two defeats in the Viertklassigkeit from.
In Division 2 Mellersta Götaland IK Sleipner missed behind Skövde AIK as runner due to the poorer goal difference by three goals to direct resurgence. After the climb had been missed again with the same placement in the following year behind Motala AIF in 2008 came with the season victory to qualify for the Division 1 There, the team established immediately in the front table space.
Achievements / Statistics
The IK Sleipner occupies the 20th place in the table of the eternal Allsvenskan.
The biggest success in club history are:
- Participation in the Allsvenskan (16 seasons): Swedish Champion ( 1st place): 1938
- 2nd Place: 1937
- 3rd place: 1930
- 4th place: 1929
Venue
The home ground of the association is the Norrköping Idrottspark. The 1903 designed as a multi- sports facility sports venue has now been expanded into a pure football stadium, which offers 19,414 spectators.
The stadium also serves local rivals IFK Norrköping as a home ground. It was in 1958 the venue for three matches, including a quarter-final at the World Championships. At the European Championships in 1992, for which the stadium was converted to pure football arena, three group stage matches were played in it.
Known player
Especially in the heyday of the club in the 1930s ran on some national players for the club. In addition, the team noted several participants at the World Championships:
- Goals cellar, World Cup participant in 1934 and 1938
- Nils Liedholm, World Cup 1958 participant
- Arne Linder Holm, World Cup 1938 participant
- Gustav Wetterström, World Cup 1938 participant