Kalmar FF

A chart showing the progress of Kalmar FF through the swedish football league system. The different shades of gray represent league divisions.

On 15 June 1910, the club IF Göta was created, however they were not allowed to enter the Riksidrottsförbundet due to a conflict regarding the name. The name was already taken by Stockholm's-Göta and Karlstads-Göta. Later in 1912 the club changed its name to IF Gothia and was then accepted by Riksidrottsförbundet.

In 1918 Fredriksskans was opened and at the same time the where a major conference in Kalmar about the high number of clubs in the town, this led to the merging of IF Gothia and Kamraterna to Kalmar Idrotts Sällskap and Kalmar IK merged with Falken to form Kalmar AIK. In 1927 Kalmar Idrotts Sällskap changed its name to Kalmar FF.

In 1927–1928 they qualified for the local league in the Swedish league system, IFK Oskarshamn won the league and was moved up to the Southswedish league, covering both Småland and Skåne, however IFK Oskarshamn renounced its position and it was given to Kalmar FF, this gave rise to complaint from the clubs in Skåne since there were no good train connections to Kalmar at that time, however SJ solved it. In their first game they defeated Malmö FF with 6–0.

In 1949 the club reached Allsvenskan for the first time after defeating Halmstads BK in the decisive game of the season; during this time Swedish leagues were played autumn–spring, on 31 July they played their first game in Allsvenskan against Degerfors IF and lost 2–0, afterward, the later world-famous Gunnar Nordahl claimed that he had seen much worse newcomers, also this year, on 4 September Kalmar faced Malmö FF in front of 15 093 people in the audience; this is still the audience record on Fredriksskans.

Between 1950 and 1955 the club went up and down between Allsvenskan and Division 2. In 1955 they fell down to Division 2 and stayed there for 20 years; during this time players like Hungarian Ference Marko represented the club at the same time as he lived at the refugee camp in Borgholm in 1957, in 1959 Sune "Mona-Lisa" Andersson, who won an Olympic medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics as a player, as manager, during this time Sten-Åke Johansson played for the club and became the top goalscorer for all time for the club, on 19 October 1975 Kalmar FF defeated Västra Frölunda and returned to Allsvenskan.

In 1976 the club played its 100th game in Allsvenskan against GIF Sundsvall, however this ended with 9–2 defeat and led to manager Kay Wiestål being fired. The 1977 season became the club's most successful season so far; a group of companies sponsored the club's buying of Benno Magnusson; the club was able to end in 3rd place at the end of the season, earning the club its first medal.

In 1981 the club won its first title ever, by defeating IF Elfsborg with 4–0, the club won the Svenska Cupen for the first time ever, however they failed to stay in Allsvenskan and was relegated to Division 1; however the spell was only one year long and Kalmar returned in 1983.

1985 became the club's most successful season, as the club ended up in second place behind Örgryte IS and Billy Lansdowne and Peter Karlsson both became the league's top goalscorer along with Sören Börjesson, Örgryte IS, all scoring 10 goals each. The following year did not go as good; the club was relegated from the top league and the only happiness in 1987 was when the club yet again won the Cup title, this time against GAIS, however the club fell out of Division 1 this year.

In 1988 Kalmar FF won Division 2 without a single defeat which is a record in Division 2 and higher leagues. Between 1989 and 1997 the club spent most of its time in second highest league; this caused serious economic problems for the club.

After returning to Allsvenskan in 1998, but in 1999 the club fell out again, the only good thing was that the economy had been restored and was in good shape again. During the 2000 season club had to fight to avoid relegation from the second highest league and was only able to do it in the end of the season.

The goal of the 2001 season was to return to Allsvenskan again, after buying several new players such as Lasse Johansson, Fredrik Gärdeman and Lucas Nilsson, the club was able to return to Allsvenskan again, unfortunately the club was relegated directly. During the 2002 the first Brazilian, Alysson, arrived at the club.

The spell in Superettan 2003 became only one year as Kalmar won the league well ahead of Trelleborgs FF, purchase of Daniel Mendes and Dudu helped the club a lot.

In 2004 the club bought three new Brazilian players, Dedé Anderson, Fábio Augusto and César Santin, they all helped the club to a 5th place in Allsvenskan, just missing out on Royal League, the club also made a change board as chairman Ronny Nilsson left after 12 years at the helm, he was replaced by Tommy Strandman.

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Lantz

Rosengren

Nouri

Sorin

Rydström

V. Elm

Sobralense

R. Elm

Ingelsten

Dauda

The lineup who won the league title, Allsvenskan, with a 2–2 away draw against Halmstads BK, 9 Nov 2008.[2]

The two following seasons, 2005 and 2006, Kalmar ended up in 3rd and 5th respectively. Then in 2007 they made a great run from start to finish and finally ended up in second place after champions IFK Göteborg. They won Svenska Cupen the same year by beating IFK Göteborg with 3–0 at Fredriksskans in Kalmar.

Before the start, several Swedish experts believed that Kalmar FF would be one of the teams fighting for the championship title 2008,[3] the club started the season stable and as the season went on the club performance became stronger and saw the club win many big victories, only other team able to keep up was IF Elfsborg. The club had to wait until the last match of the season against Halmstads BK in Halmstad before they could become champions. Before the final match Elfsborg was behind with 3 points and 9 goals. The match against Halmstads BK ended 2–2 placing the club 1 point ahead of Elfsborg.[4] Patrik Ingelsten also became the league's top goalscorer of the season with 19 goals scored. The team reached the final in Svenska Cupen yet again and also this year against IFK Göteborg, however this year IFK won 5–4 on penalties after full-time and extra time had ended 0–0. The club also had the chance to reach the group stage of the UEFA Cup. After strong play against Racing FC from Luxembourg and Gent from Belgium, the club faced Dutch team Feyenoord, after winning 1–0 away in Rotterdam the club lost home with 1–2, in Borås at Borås Arena since Fredriksskans failed to reach UEFA demands,[5] sending the club out of the competition on away goals.[6] [7]

The club's first kit manufacturer was Adidas, until a three-year deal was agreed with Umbro in 1995. Puma received the contract in 1998 and their sponsorship lasted for seventeen years.[10] In 2016, Hummel was presented as the new kit manufacturer of the club.[11]

The following list ranks the current position of Kalmar FF in the UEFA ranking[12] (as of 27 January 2017):

Rank	Team	Points
259	IFK Norrköping	4.945
260	IF Brommapojkarna	4.945
261	Gefle IF	4.945
262	Kalmar FF	4.945
263	Zagłębie Lubin	4.900
264	GKS Piast Gliwice	4.900
265	FC Milsami Orhei	4.900

As of 4 February 2020[13]

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

No. Position Player 2 DF Henrik Löfkvist 3 DF Sebastian Ring 4 DF Fidan Aliti 7 MF Piotr Johansson 9 FW Måns Söderqvist 10 MF Filip Sachpekidis 12 DF Malte Persson 13 DF Emin Nouri 14 MF Chidiebere Nwakali 16 MF York Rafael 17 DF Gbenga Arokoyo 18 FW Mahmoud Eid 19 MF Isak Jansson 20 MF Carl Gustavsson 21 MF Svante Ingelsson (on loan from Udinese)

No. Position Player 22 FW Alexander Ahl Holmström 23 MF Viktor Elm (captain) 26 DF Olle Lindqvist 29 MF Romário 30 GK Tobias Andersson 31 FW Nils Fröling 32 GK Lucas Hägg-Johansson 33 FW Adrian Edqvist 34 MF Herman Hallberg 36 DF Johan Stenmark 38 MF Adam Hellborg 39 FW Isak Magnusson 88 FW Geir André Herrem 93 MF Rafinha 95 MF Maxwell

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

No. Position Player 91 MF Hiago (at Alagoano) — FW Lumala Abdu (at Syrianska until 31 July 2019)

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

No. Position Player 8 MF Henrik Rydström (1993–2013) 15 MF Johny Erlandsson (1973–88)

Name	Role
Jonas Persson	Acting Chairman
Anna Karlsson	Board Member
Johan Jaensson	Board Member
Thomas Johansson	Board Member
Karin Ekebjär	Board Member
Per Stephani	Board Member

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Name	Role
Magnus Pehrsson	Manager
Jesper Norberg	Assistant Manager
Torbjörn Arvidsson	Assistant Manager
Donald Arvidsson	Goalkeeping Coach
Fredrik Carlsen	Fitness Coach
Mattias Rosenlund	Club Chairman
David Bergqvist	Academy Director
Ola Ragnarsson	Team Coordinator
Kjell Svensson	Physiotherapist
Jörgen Pettersson	U19 Trainer
Stefan Larsson	U19 Coach
Nenad Đorđević	U17 Trainer
Johan Öhlin	U16 Trainer
Mathias Svensson	Groundkeeper

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• Allsvenskan:
  • Winners (1): 2008
  • Runners-up (2): 1985, 2007
• Superettan:
  • Winners (2): 2001, 2003
• Division 1 Södra:
  • Winners (1): 1998
  • Runners-up (1): 1994

• Svenska Cupen:
  • Winners (3): 1980–81, 1986–87, 2007
  • Runners-up (3): 1977–78, 2008, 2011
• Svenska Supercupen:
  • Winners (1): 2009
  • Runners-up (1): 2008