Villa Lidköping BK

Villa Lidköping BK
City Lidköping, Sweden
League Elitserien
Founded 18 January 1934 (1934-01-18)
Home arena Sparbanken Lidköping Arena
Head coach Johan Sixtensson
Website vlbk.se
Home colours
Away colours

Villa Lidköping BK is a bandy club in Lidköping i Sweden. The club was formed on January 18, 1934 as Villa BK on Lockörn outside Lidköping, where the old club cottage still is. The club's name comes from the nearby country estate Villa Giacomina.

Villa has played Swedish championship finals four times, in 1975, 1983, 2012 and 2016, but lost all of them.[1] The home games are played at Sparbanken Lidköping Arena.

In October 2018, the club won its first World Cup title.[2][3]

Squad

As of 17 March 2015[4]
No. Position Player
2 Sweden MF Mattias Johansson
5 Sweden MF Linus Rönnqvist
6 Sweden MF Martin Karlsson
7 Sweden MF Lars Fall
8 Sweden MF Christian Älvegran
9 Sweden DF Erik Rosengren
10 Sweden FW David Karlsson
12 Sweden FW Tim Person
15 Sweden GK David Borvall
21 Sweden FW Jesper Bryngelson
22 Sweden DF Martin Andreasson
No. Position Player
24 Sweden DF Martin Johansson
25 Sweden MF Tobias Nyberg
28 Sweden DF Daniel Lehnbom
34 Sweden GK Jakob Säleby
64 Sweden MF Johan Karlsson
71 Sweden DF Johan Malmquist
75 Sweden MF Jesper Eriksson
79 Sweden GK Jon Karlsson
83 Sweden MF Daniel Andersson
92 Sweden MF Petter Björling

Honours

Domestic

International

  • World Cup:
    • Winner (1): 2018
    • Runners-up (1): 2016

References

  1. ↑ "SM-finaler genom åren" (in Swedish). Swedish Bandy Association. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Villa vann World Cup för första gången" (in Swedish). Dagens nyheter. 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Villa vann World Cup för första gången" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan. 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  4. ↑ http://www.vlbk.se/a-laget/presentation.aspx
  5. ↑ http://iof1.idrottonline.se/SvenskaBandyforbundet/BANDYFINALEN/HISTORIK/Svenskamastare/Herrar/
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