Ängelholms FF

Ängelholms FF
Full name Ängelholms Fotbollförening
Founded 1976 (1976)
Ground Ängelholms IP, Ängelholm
Capacity 4,000
Chairman Mats Johansson
Head coach Alexander Tengryd
League Division 1 Södra
2017 Division 1 Södra, 8th
Ängelholms IP

Ängelholms FF is a football club based in Ängelholm, Sweden. The club is affiliated to Skånes Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Ängelholms IP. The club was formed in 1976 as a merger between Ängelholms IF and Skörpinge GIF. The club is currently playing in Division 1, the third highest tier of Swedish football.[1]

History

Ängelholms IF were founded in 1905 and Skörpinge GIF were founded in 1950. Ängelholms IF had their most successful period in the 1930s when they played in Swedish Division 2 against clubs such as Malmö FF, Halmstads BK and Helsingborgs IF. Ängelholms IF were the most successful club in Ängelholm until Skörpinge GIF were founded and later seriously started to compete for the best talents of the town.

Discussions of a possible merger initiated in 1975 after the two clubs realised the potential in a merger. Both clubs realised that the best opportunity for Ängelholm to have a professional club would be to merge the two clubs. They merged in 1976 and founded Ängelholms FF. However the success that the two clubs had in vision took until the 1990s to aspire. Between 1997 and 2001, Ängelholms FF were promoted from Division 4 to the second highest tier, Superettan. The club was relegated back to Division 2 and played there until they were promoted to the newly created tier three, Division 1. The club was once again promoted in their second season of the league and found themselves in Superettan for the second time in the clubs history. In 2008 the club reached their highest position in the Swedish league system yet, 5th place in Superettan.

On 22 December 2016 the club applied for bankruptcy.[2] However, on 17 January 2017, it was announced that the club had been saved from bankruptcy.[3]

Players

First-team squad

As of 25 April 2018[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Sweden GK Robin Streifert
2 Sweden MF Elias Johansson
3 Sweden DF Emil Rydström
5 Sweden MF Marcus Eriksson
6 Sweden MF Sebastian Carlsén
8 Sweden MF Kristofer Jeppsson
9 Sweden FW Edis Agelius
10 Sweden MF Oliver Stojanovic-Fredin
11 Sweden MF Björn Westerblad (captain)
13 Sweden GK Linus Müller
14 Sweden FW Marwin Leidewall
No. Position Player
16 Sweden DF Anton Hallbäck
17 Sweden DF Niklas Svensson
18 Sweden MF Rasmus Strandberg
20 Sweden FW Andreas Karlsson
22 Sweden MF Alexander Engholm
23 Republic of Macedonia DF Alex Simovski
24 Sweden MF Edvin Nilsson
25 Sweden DF Oscar Zachrison
26 Sweden DF Erik Widén
– Sweden DF Fredrik Widlund

Retired numbers

12 – Daniel Johansson, defender (1996–2009)

Achievements

League

Footnotes

    References

    1. ↑ "Kontaktuppgifter och tävlingar – Skånes Fotbollförbund – Svenskfotboll.se". Retrieved 2011-01-12.
    2. ↑ Daniel Grefve (22 December 2016). "Ängelholms FF ansöker om konkurs" (in Swedish). Sveriges radio. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
    3. ↑ "Konkurshotet avvärjt för ÄFF" (in Swedish). Sveriges radio. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
    4. ↑ "Truppen" (in Swedish). Ängelholms FF. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
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