Ljungskile SK

Ljungskile SK

Full name	Ljungskile Sportklubb
Founded	1926
Ground	Skarsjövallen, Ljungskile
Ground Capacity	8,000
Chairman	Lars Bergdahl
Manager	Tor-Arne Fredheim
League	Superettan
2013	Superettan, 9th
Home colours Away colours

Starke Arvid Arena

Ljungskile SK is a Swedish football club located in Ljungskile, a town within Uddevalla Municipality. The club, formed 1926 currently play in Superettan. Ljungskile SK is famous for their promotions between 1990 to 1997. In 1990, Ljungskile SK was playing in Swedish "Division 5" and gained promotion to "Division 4", "Division 3", "Division 2", "Division 1" until they reached Allsvenskan in 1997.

The club soon gained sponsorship by the swimwear producer Panos Emporio after advancing for the first time to Allsvenskan (LSK defeated Umeå FC when attending the qualifying round in November 1996), and played under the name Panos Ljungskile SK from 1997 to 2002. The club was relegated two times (1997 and 2000) during these years, and played some years in Division 2 Västra Götaland before they managed to gain promotion back to Superettan in late 2004, defeating Väsby IK in the qualifying round. On October 21, 2007 the club gained promotion for the second time ever to Allsvenskan by defeating Landskrona BoIS away. During 2008 the club managed to replace IFK Uddevalla as Bohuslän's most successful club in the history of Allsvenskan.

Season to season

Current squad

As of 25 January 2014^[3]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Magnus Berglöf 2 DF Anton Tideman 3 DF Niclas Andersén 6 DF James Sinclair 7 MF Dominic Furness 8 MF Markus Gustafsson 9 FW Hannes Stiller 10 MF Jonas Lindberg 11 MF Jakob Olsson 13 MF Robin Iglićar

No. Position Player 14 DF Petter Björlund 16 FW Korab Bakraqi 19 FW David Johannesson 20 MF Aaron Nichols 24 MF Aleksandar Kitić (captain) 25 MF Peiman Eliassi 33 GK Gabriel Persson — GK Alex Horwath — DF Rebin Sulaka

Available youth players

As of 11 July 2013

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

No. Position Player — MF Rikard Bagger — MF Gustav Hallberg

No. Position Player — FW Joakim Berggren

For season transfers, see transfers winter 2012–13 and transfers summer 2013.

Former coaches

• Johan Brinck (1995)
• Lars-Olof Mattsson (1996–97, 2006)
• Bo Wålemark (1998)
• Jan Jönsson (1998-2000)
• Lars-Gunnar Hermansson (2001–02)
• David Wilson (2003–05, 2006–08)
• Gudmundur Magnusson (2009)

Achievements

League

• Superettan:
  • Runners-up (1): 2007
• Division 1 Södra:
  • Runners-up (1): 1996

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ljungskile SK.

• Ljungskile SK - official site
• Svenskafans.com - Supporter site (Swedish)

Footnotes