Malmö FF
| Full name | Malmö Fotbollförening | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Di blåe (The blue ones) Himmelsblått (Sky blue) |
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| Founded | 1910 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Malmö Stadion, Malmö (Capacity: 27,500) |
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| Chairman |  Bengt Madsen |
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| Manager | Roland Nilsson |
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| League | Allsvenskan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Allsvenskan, 6th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Malmö FF is a Swedish football club located in Malmö. The club, formed 24 February 1910, has been awarded 15 national championship titles (despite winning the Swedish football league 18 times) and 14 national cup titles. Malmo FF was the runner-up in the 1979 European Champions Cup final, which they lost 1-0 to Nottingham Forest.
With IFK Göteborg and AIK, Malmö FF are often considered to make-up the classic "Big Three" in Swedish club football, with 42 championship titles between them. Malmö FF is also the only Swedish team to have played a final in the European Champions Cup. For this, MFF were awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, as of 2006 the only club to have been so. They are currently playing in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan, where they have played the majority of the seasons during their existence.
Malmö FF was relegated from Allsvenskan in 1999, this was the first time in 63 seasons for the club and the second time ever. However, the following year, 2000, Malmö FF regained their place in Allsvenskan. The first degradation was decided by the Swedish Football Association since Malmö FF's nemesis IFK Malmö had reported the club for paying their players (this was against rules at the time). A lot of Malmö FF fans, specially among the older ones, still think of IFK Malmö's way of acting as an act of treason.
Malmö FF have in many ways reflected the multi-cultural nature of Malmö. In 1990, defender Jean-Paul Vondenburg became the first black player playing for the Swedish national football team, playing against the United Arab Emirates. In 1998, Turkish-Macedonian midfielder/striker Yksel Osmanovski became the first Muslim player for Sweden, when Sweden lost 1-0 to USA.
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Stadiums
Malmö FF's first stadium was Malmö IP, which was shared with arch-rivals IFK Malmö. A new stadium in Malmö had to be constructed after Sweden was awarded the 1958 FIFA World Cup - this saw the birth of the current stadium, Malmö Stadion. An upper tier was added to the stadium in the 80's, and was completed in 1992. [1]
Following the 2004 victory in Allsvenskan, voices where raised for the construction of a new stadium in Malmö. In July 2005, Malmö FF announced that a new stadium was to be constructed - Swedbank Stadion, a 18,000 seatings and 6,000 standings stadium, which is currently being constructed next to Malmö Stadion. It's expected to be ready for the next season, which starts in April 2009.
Supporters
Malmö FF's main fan club is MFF Support. The group was founded in 1992, only days after AIK had secured the title at Malmö Stadion, out-singing the home supporters. MFF Support describes itself as "an idealistic and non-political association working against violence and racism"; the current chairman of MFF Support is Tony Ernst.
During a Royal League game in 2005, Malmö FF supporters were unprovokedly attacked by Danish police at Parken, Copenhagen. [2] MFF Support has worked to hold the Danish police officers accountable for the scandal, which made several headlines in Denmark. [3]
In popular culture
A recurring sketch in the second season of Hipphipp! involves a group of Malmö FF fans singing and chanting while performing every-day tasks, such as shopping or operating an ATM.
J-Ro of Tha Liks can be seen sporting a Malmö FF T-shirt in the video to The Flute Song.
In the Swedish 2005 drama movie Om Sara, actor Alexander Skarsgård plays the football star Kalle Öberg, who plays for MFF.
Current squad
As of 2008-08-15.
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Players out on loan
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Technical staff
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League season results
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Season Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Notes 2000 SE 2 30 20 3 7 48 32 60 promoted 2001 AS 9 26 9 5 12 39 46 32 2002 AS 2 26 14 4 8 52 32 46 2003 AS 3 26 14 6 6 50 23 48 2004 AS 1 26 15 7 4 44 21 52 2005 AS 5 26 12 5 9 38 27 41 2006 AS 7 26 10 8 8 43 39 38 2007 AS 9 26 9 7 10 29 28 34 2008 AS 6 30 12 8 10 51 46 44
Noted players
List of notable football players of Malmö FF's history:
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1961 - 1980
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1981 - 1990
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1990s
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2000s
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Noted managers
Antonio Durán (1964-71)
Bob Houghton (1974-80, 1990-92)- Tord Grip (1983-84)
- Roy Hodgson (1985-89)
Viggo Jensen (1992-93)
Frans Thijssen (1997-98)- Roland Andersson (1998-99)
- Tom Prahl (2001-05)
- Sören Åkeby (2006-07)
- Roland Nilsson (2008-)
Club records
- Record League victory: 12–0 v Halmstad BK, Allsvenskan, 3 June 1943 / v Jönköpings Södra IF, Allsvenskan, 26 May 1949
- Record League defeat: 1–7 v IF Elfsborg, Allsvenskan, 10 April 1926
- Highest attendance (at Malmö Stadion): 29,328 v Helsingborgs IF, 24 September 1967
- Highest attendance (at Malmö IP): 22,436 v Helsingborgs IF, 1 June 1956
- Most appearances, total: 625 — Krister Kristensson (1963-78)
- Most appearances, Allsvenskan: 348 — Krister Kristensson (1963-78)
- Most goals scored, total: 289 — Bo Larsson (1962-66, 1969-79)
- Most goals scored, Allsvenskan: 119 — Bo Larsson (1962-66, 1969-79)
- Most goals scored in a season: 28 — Bo Larsson, 1965
Achievements
- Swedish Champions:
- Winners (15): 1943–44, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1986, 1988, 2004
- Allsvenskan:
- Winners (18): 1943–44, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 2004
- Runners-up (14): 1945–1946, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1996, 2002
- Allsvenskan play-off:
- Winners (2): 1986, 1988
- Runners-up (2): 1987, 1989
- Svenska Cupen:
- Winners (14): 1944, 1946, 1947, 1951, 1953, 1967, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1977–78, 1979–80, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1988–89
- Runners-up (3): 1945, 1970–71, 1995–96
- European Champion Clubs' Cup:
- Runners-up (1): 1978–79
- Intercontinental Cup
- Runners-up (1): 1979
External links
- Malmö FF - official site
- MFF Support - official supporter club site
- Himmelriket - supporter site
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| Preceded by Björn Borg & Ingemar Stenmark |
Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal 1979 |
Succeeded by Thomas Wassberg (refused) |