Swedish Football Association

The Fotbollförbundet Svenska ( SvFF ) is a Swedish sports federation and the federation of Swedish football. The association was founded on 18 December 1904.

History

Developed early in the 1870s first sports clubs in Sweden. In addition to gymnastics but first athletics, skating, rowing and swimming were the most widespread sports. However, this changed in the 1880s, as were imported from England football, rugby and Bandy.

At first it was still to be place in almost all European countries factional dispute between association football and rugby. On May 22, 1892 IS Lyckans Soldater and Örgryte IS competed against each other. The game, which Örgryte IS 1-0 beating off, is considered the first football game after the association rules between two Swedish teams. 1895 was founded in Gothenburg Svenska Idrottsförbundet, a sports association, which should include all sports. After football teams also joined the association, this organized from 1896 Svenska Mästerskapet. First Master Örgryte IS was by a 3-0 win over IS Idrottens Vänner.

At the same time Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna or Stockholm Idrottsförbund developed as a rival associations. While the first, from 1901, fought out the Kamratmästerskapen, the team played from the other association from 1899 to the Rosenska cups.

1901 was the 1891 founded by Viktor Balck Svenska Gymnastics och Idrottsförbundet own football section, which was directed by Clarence von Rosen. On May 6, 1892, the Svenska Bollspelsförbundet founded by Rosen as chairman. On March 23, 1904 was founded the year before Riksidrottsförbundet as a football section. In the following years was racing events. Initially founded on March 27 in Eskilstuna Svenska Fotbolls unions before was discussed on May 28 at Bollspelsförbundet on cooperation with the Riksidrottsförbundet. As its football section invited to participate at its championship, the Bollspelsförbundet but its members forbade any participation. On 20 July, then agreed Svenska Fotbolls unions and Riksförbundet to working, a week later consented and the Bollspelsförbundet. So met on December 18, 1904 77 clubs in Stockholm to start the Svenska Gymnastics och Idrottsföreningarnas riksförbunds section för fotboll och bandy. A year later they tried the current name.

1908 organized by the Association of the first international match of the Swedish national team. On July 12, 1908 they met on the sports field Balder Hage before 3,000 spectators on the Nordic neighbors Norway and was able to beat this clearly with 11:3. Karl Gustafsson scored the first goal in the history of the national team. In the same year the team also first appeared on at an international tournament. At the Olympic Games in 1908, however, the team failed directly in the opening game of the English amateur team. It took until the Olympic Games in 1924 to the bronze medal an award could be won for the first time.

The first world championship is carried out in the second Tournament 1934. After the Second World War, the Swedish football had its greatest period. At the 1948 Olympic Games, the country team won the gold medal. Although a number of Swedish players move in the subsequent period as a professional player to Southern Europe, but the association refused the professionalism and thus no longer invited players to international matches, further successes were celebrated with the third place in both the World Cup 1950 and the 1952 Olympics.

The World Cup 1958 was planned by SvFF and carried out. With the second place in their own country a brief football euphoria created. The Allsvenskan recorded in the sequence attendance records.

However, after the after the World Championship was not able to build on the successes of the Association replaced the Uttagningskommittén, the selection committee of the national team, through a permanent coach. First Förbundskapten 1962 Lennart Nyman.

In addition to varying success on national level in the 1970s - one qualified regularly for the World Championships, but failed twice in the first round and only managed at the World Cup in 1974 a place in the final round - came with the advent of Malmö FF in the final of the European Champions' Cup first time in 1979 there was a major success at club level. In the following decade, the gap between national and supervised by the Association clubs was even wider with the country selection could qualify for no more tournament, IFK Göteborg reach 1982 and 1987 victories in the UEFA Cup.

With the European Championship in 1992, the Swedish Football Association again took over the organization of a major tournament. At the same time with that came the national team as a host to their European Championship debut, in which she was able to convince and only just failed to Germany in the semifinals. With the third place at the World Cup 1994, supervised by the Association country selection was back in the big European teams and has qualified for every major tournament since 2000.

Areas of responsibility

The SvFF is primarily concerned with:

Swedish national team of men ( " Landslag " )
Swedish national team of women
Highest Swedish football league of men ( Allsvenskan)
Highest Swedish football league of women ( Damallsvenskan )
Second highest Swedish football league of men ( Superettan)
Swedish Cup (Svenska Cupen ) of the men
Swedish Cup (Svenska Cupen ) of the women

UEFA five year ranking

Position in the UEFA five year ranking (in brackets the previous year placement). The abbreviation CL and EL countries behind the coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2014/15 season of the Champions League and the Europa League.

21 (20 ) Poland Poland (league, cup ) - coefficient: 20,750 - CL: 1, EL: 3
22 (21 ) Croatia (league, cup ) - Coefficient: 19.583 - CL: 1, EL: 3
23 (24 ) Sweden Sweden (league, cup ) - Coefficient: 15.625 - CL: 1, EL: 3
24 (18 ) Scotland (league, cup ) - Coefficient: 15.191 - CL: 1, EL: 3
25 (27 ) Serbia Serbia (league, cup ) - Coefficient: 14.625 - CL: 1, EL: 3

As of the end of the European campaign of 2012/13

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