IFK Norrköping

IFK Norrköping
Full name	Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping
Nickname(s)	Peking (Beijing) Snoka
Founded	1897
Ground	Idrottsparken, Norrköping (Capacity 19,414)
Chairman	Hans Lundin
Manager	Mats Jingblad
League	Allsvenskan
2007	Superettan, 1st (promoted)
Home colours 　 Away colours

IFK Norrköping is a Swedish football club based in Norrköping. The club, formed on 29 May 1897, is currently playing in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan. The most successful period of the club was in the 1940 under the Hungarian coach Lajos Czeizler (1942-1948). Norrköping dominated Swedish football in the post war era and won the first division 11 times in 20 glorious years culminating in the league triumph of 1963. It took the club another 26 years before adding championship title number 12 to the trophy cabinet. The team of 1989 was well balanced with players such as keeper Lasse Eriksson, Jan Hellström, Sulo Vaattovaara, Igor Ponomarev and youngsters including 17 year old Johnny Rödlund from Manchester United. 2007 IFK Norrköping was promoted to Allsvenskan after 5 long years in the second highest league Superettan. Norrköping's colours are blue and white and reflect their heritage as an IFK club.

Current squad

Squad for 2008 (only players under contract) As of 13 December 2007:

No. Position Player 1 GK Sasa Sjanic 27 GK Nuredin Bakiu 2 DF Anders Whass 3 DF Richard Spong 5 DF Mikael Roth 8 DF Kristoffer Arvhage 15 DF Kristofer Andersson 21 DF Thomas Magnusson 24 DF Philip Ahlstrand 4 MF David Nordbeck 6 MF Leandre Griffit (On loan from IF Elfsborg) 7 MF Mikael Blomberg 9 MF Petru Racu 10 MF Viktor Rönneklev

No. Position Player 11 MF Simon Omekanda 13 MF Eirik Dybendal 14 MF Daniel Bamberg 20 MF Christopher Telo 23 MF Riki Cakic 60 MF Magnus Samuelsson 12 FW Gardar Gunnlaugsson 26 FW Andreas Haglund -- DF Gunnar Thor Gunnarsson -- MF Feliciano Magro -- MF Imad Khalili -- DF Armando Ibrakovic -- FW Kevin Amuneke

Winners of the Golden Ball (swe. Guldbollen)

• 1947: Gunnar Nordahl
• 1949: Knut Nordahl
• 1953: Bengt 'Julle' Gustavsson
• 1957: Åke 'Bajdoff' Johansson
• 1960: Torbjörn Jonsson
• 1961: Bengt 'Zamora' Nyholm
• 1963: Harry Bild
• 1966: Ove Kindvall
• 1968: Björn Nordqvist
• 1990: Tomas Brolin
• 1992: Jan Eriksson

Other noted players

• Nils Liedholm
• Georg 'Åby' Ericson
• Gösta Nordahl
• Harry Bild
• Henry "Putte" Källgren
• Stefan Pettersson (1983-1984)
• Brian McDermott (1984)
• Jan Svensson
• Jan Hellström
• Kennet Andersson
• Niclas Kindvall
• Eddie Gustafsson

Top scorers

Allsvenskan (Division I 1924/1925-1986)

• Gunnar Nordahl 1944/1945 (27 goals), 1945/1946 (25 goals) och 1947/1948 (18 goals)
• Harry Bild 1956/1957 (19 goals)
• Henry "Putte" Källgren 1957/1958 (27 goals) (shared with Bertil Johansson, IFK Göteborg)
• Ove Kindvall 1966 (20 goals)
• Jan Hellström 1989 (16 goals)
• Niclas Kindvall 1994 (23 goals)

Superettan (Division II 1924/25-1986 and Division I 1986-2000)

• Stefan Pettersson 1983 (17 goals)
• Bruno Santos 2005 (17 goals)
• Gardar Gunnlaugsson 2007 (18 goals)

Other Information

• Most played games (Allsvenskan or Division I):

Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson, 321 games (1949-1965)

• Most league goals (Allsvenskan or Division I):

Henry "Putte" Källgren, 126 goals (1951-1960)

• Most spectators:

32 234 against Malmö FF, 7th june 1956

• Biggest victory (Allsvenskan or Division I):

11-1 against Djurgårdens IF, 14th october 1945.

• Biggest defeat (Allsvenskan or Divsion I):

0 - 11 against Örgryte IS, 6th april 1928 and Helsingborgs IF, 22nd september 1929

• Most expensive player:

Goalkeeper Balázs Rabóczkí, from Dunaferr (Hungary) for approximately 2,5 million SEK, 2002.

• Most expensive sale:

Midfielder/Forward Tomas Brolin, to Parma AC (Italy) for approximately 11 million SEK, 1990.

Achievements

• Swedish Champions:
  • Winners (12): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1989
• Allsvenskan:
  • Winners (12): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1992
  • Runners-up (9): 1952–53, 1957–58, 1959, 1961, 1966, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993
• Mästerskapsserien:
  • Runners-up (2): 1991, 1992
• Allsvenskan play-off:
  • Winners (1): 1989
  • Runners-up (2): 1984, 1990
• Svenska Cupen:
  • Winners (6): 1943, 1945, 1968–69, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1993–94
  • Runners-up (4): 1944, 1953, 1967, 1971–72

IFK in the European cups

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Result	Spectators (Home in bold style)	IFKs goalscorers
1956/57	European cup	Round of 16		AC Fiorentina	1-1, 0-1	6351, 4000(Played in Rome)	Harry Bild ;
1957/58	European cup	Round of 16		Red Star Belgrade	2-2, 1-2	10.893, 20.000	Olle Håkansson, Henry "Putte" Källgren ; Lennart Backman
1962/63	European cup	Qualification		Partizani Tirana	2-0, 1-1	12.271, 18.000	Harry Bild, Åke Rosander ; Ove Kindvall
	European cup	Round of 16		SL Benfica	1-1, 5-1	24.205, 50.000	Bill Björklund ; Bill Björklund
1963/64	European cup	Qualification		Standard Liége	0-1, 2-0	33.000, 15.030	- ; Ove Kindvall, Örjan Martinsson
	European cup	Round of 16		AC Milan	1-1, 2-5	15.486, 15.000	Björn Nordqvist ; Örjan Martinsson, Own goal
1968/69	Cup Winners cup	First Round		Crusaders F.C.	4-1, 2-2
	Cup Winners cup	Second Round		FC Lyn	3-2, 0-2
1969/70	Cup Winners cup	First Round		Sliema Wanderers F.C.	5-1, 0-1
	Cup Winners cup	Second Round		Schalke 04	0-0, 0-1
1972/73	Uefa cup	First Round		Flamura Roşie Arad	2-0, 2-1
	Uefa cup	Second Round		FC Internazionale	0-2, 2-2
1978/79	Uefa cup	First Round		Hibernian FC	0-0, 2-3
1982/83	Uefa cup	First Round		Southampton	0-0, 2-2
	Uefa cup	Second Round		Roma	1-0, 0-1 (2-4 after penalties)
1988/89	Cup Winners cup	First Round		UC Sampdoria	2-1, 0-2
1990/91	Uefa cup	First Round		1. FC Köln	0-0, 1-3
1991/92	Cup Winners cup	First Round		Jeunesse d‘Esch	4-0, 2-1
	Cup Winners cup	First Round		AS Monaco	1-2, 0-1
1992/93	Uefa cup	First Round		Torino FC	1-0, 0-3
1993/94	Uefa cup	First Round		KV Mechelen	0-1, 1-1 (in stoppage time)
1994/95	Cup Winners cup	Qualifications		FK Viktoria Žižkov	3-3, 0-1
2000/01	Uefa cup	Qualification		GÍ Gøtu	2-1, 2-0
	Uefa cup	First Round		FC Slovan Liberec	2-2, 1-2

External links

• IFK Norrköping - official site
• Peking Fanz - official supporter club site
• IFK Norrköpings Supporter klubb - official supporter club site for seniors
• gopeking.net - IFK Norrköpings oldest supporter site
• Parkens vita hjältar - supporter site