IFK Göteborg (women)

Add links
Coordinates: 57°42′5.4″N 11°59′25.1″E / 57.701500°N 11.990306°E / 57.701500; 11.990306
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the women's football team. For the football club, see IFK Göteborg. For the parent organisation and its other clubs, see IFK Göteborg (sports club).

IFK Göteborg
Full nameIdrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll)
Nickname(s)
  • Blåvitt (Blue-white)
  • Änglarna (The Angels)
  • Kamraterna (The Comrades)
Short nameIFK
Founded4 October 1904; 119 years ago (1904-10-04) (club)
18 November 2019; 4 years ago (2019-11-18) (women's senior team)
GroundValhalla IP, Gothenburg
Capacity4,000
Coordinates57°42′5.4″N 11°59′25.1″E / 57.701500°N 11.990306°E / 57.701500; 11.990306
OwnerMember-owned
ChairmanRichard Berkling
Head coachPeter Svanström
LeagueDivision 1 Södra
2022Division 2 Nordvästra Götaland, 1st
WebsiteClub website

Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or simply Göteborg, is a Swedish women's football team based in Gothenburg. Founded in 2019 as part of the football club IFK Göteborg, the team plays in Division 2 Nordvästra Götaland, the 4th level of women's football in Sweden. IFK is affiliated with Göteborgs Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Valhalla IP. The club colours are blue and white, colours shared both with the sports society which the club originated from, Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, and with the coat of arms of the city of Gothenburg.

History[edit]

See also: IFK Göteborg

IFK Göteborg fielded a women's team in the late 1910s, and the first women's match in Gothenburg was played between IFK Göteborg and a combination team in 1918, even though it was more of a frivolous exhibition match than anything else.[1] Plans to merge with Jitex BK to establish a women's team were set in motion in the 1970s, but never materialised.[2] Activities and teams for girls were finally added to the IFK Göteborg Academy programme in 2007,[3] and at an extra general meeting of IFK Göteborg in 2019, the club members voted to create a senior women's team,[4] which administratively remains part of the academy.[5]

The team started the 2020 season on the lowest level of the league pyramid with a long-term ambition of reaching the highest league, Damallsvenskan, within seven years, a previous cooperation with the senior team of Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC was ended as of this.[4][5] The squad was mainly composed of players from the under-15 team of 2019.[5] The extra general meeting also decided that the team would create its own organisation within the IFK Göteborg alliance organisation at latest on 1 January 2022.[4]

The first competitive match of the team was played on 24 June 2020 against Ösets BK, the 6–0 victory was live-streamed by the regional newspaper Göteborgs-Posten.[6] The run-up to the match was covered in an article in the well-respected Swedish football magazine Offside, written by a journalist playing for Ösets BK.[7] As most players were relatively young, the team also competed in a youth league, as well as in the under-17 national championships.[8] The team won their under-15 league twice in a row the previous years,[5] and the immediate goal for 2020 was to advance to Division 3,[8] a goal the team managed to meet by finishing second in the league, clinching a promotion spot.[9] No major changes to the squad were planned for the 2021 season,[9] and the original decision to split the women's team from the organisation by 2022 was undone by a counter-decision taken at the 2021 annual general meeting.[10]

The 2022 season in Division 3 did not prove to be a major challenge as the team steamrolled through the league with a 66–4 goal difference, but the promotion play-offs against local rivals Örgryte IS were more dramatic.[11] The first leg ended in a 4–4 draw as IFK scored three late goals to equalise, and at home in the second leg IFK Göteborg found themselves down 1–3 some 10 minutes into the second half. But the team again managed to both reduce and equalise, scoring the vital—due to the away goal rule being used—third goal in the 86th minute, securing promotion to Division 2 for the 2022 season.[11]

Stadiums[edit]

The home ground of the team was originally Prioritet Serneke Arena,[8] a multi-sport complex in the district of Kviberg which includes a full-size indoor football pitch with an attendance capacity of around 3,000.[12] Planning for the 2021 season included moving to the outdoor stadium Valhalla IP,[9] and the home game of the promotion play-offs at the end of the season was played at Valhalla IP in front of a record crowd of 2,027.[11] The official switch to Valhalla as home ground did not happen until the start of the 2022 season.[13]

Players[edit]

First-team squad[edit]

As of 30 April 2022[14][15]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Sweden SWE Tilda Gustafsson
2 DF Sweden SWE Ashley Hall Hellström
4 DF Sweden SWE Selma Holmberg
6 FW Sweden SWE Filippa Hopkins
7 FW Sweden SWE Alicia Hall Hellström
8 MF Sweden SWE Alexandra Larsson
9 MF Sweden SWE Thilda Gianello
11 MF Austria AUT Isabella Svanström
12 GK Sweden SWE Emelie Claesson
14 DF Sweden SWE Malva Larsson
15 MF Sweden SWE Jenny Helgesson
17 FW Sweden SWE Novalie Jensen
18 MF Sweden SWE Mathilda Berg
19 MF Sweden SWE Isabella Veiszhaupt
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 DF Sweden SWE Johanna Lundberg
21 DF Sweden SWE Mimmi Bauréus
22 MF Sweden SWE Emma Broddheimer
22 MF Sweden SWE Tindra Rodéhn
23 DF Sweden SWE Leia Molund
24 GK Sweden SWE Victoria Ljunggren
24 FW Sweden SWE Felicia Holmberg
26 MF Sweden SWE Olivia Zachau Friborg
28 DF Sweden SWE Linnea Ocampo Hägglund
29 DF Sweden SWE Aliima Attervall Alase
29 DF Sweden SWE Linnea Linden
— MF Sweden SWE Filippa Andersson
— MF Sweden SWE Elin Berggren

Out on loan[edit]

As of 30 April 2022[14]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Sweden SWE Victoria Svanström (at Alingsås FC until 31 December 2022)[16]

Management[edit]

Organisation[edit]

See also: List of IFK Göteborg chairmen and Category:IFK Göteborg directors and chairmen
As of 30 April 2022[17][18]
Name Role
Sweden Richard Berkling Chairman
Sweden Peter Brandt Secretary
Sweden Håkan Mild Club director
Sweden Jonas Olsson Director of youth academy
Sweden Roger Gustafsson Youth academy training manager

Technical staff[edit]

As of 30 April 2022[19][14]
Name Role
Sweden Peter Svanström Head coach
Sweden Moa Pettersson Assistant coach
Sweden Eva Qvistgaard Assistant coach

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ Andersson 2002, p. 312.
  2. ^ Andersson 2011, p. 339.
  3. ^ Josephson & Jönsson 2014, p. 15.
  4. ^ a b c Jörnvik 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d Modeér 2019.
  6. ^ Tonnvik 2020.
  7. ^ Arbman Hansing 2020.
  8. ^ a b c Olausson 2020.
  9. ^ a b c IFK Göteborg – Satsningen på damlaget 2021.
  10. ^ Pihl Spahiu 2021.
  11. ^ a b c Wulcan 2021.
  12. ^ Prioritet Serneke Arena – Fotbollshall.
  13. ^ IFK Göteborg – Publikfest i premiärsegern.
  14. ^ a b c dam.ifkdb.se – IFK Göteborg 2022.
  15. ^ IFK Göteborg – A-lag Dam.
  16. ^ IFK Göteborg – Victoria till Alingsås.
  17. ^ IFK Göteborg – Styrelse.
  18. ^ IFK Göteborg – Har du frågor eller funderingar kring IFK Göteborg?.
  19. ^ IFK Göteborg – A-lag Dam – Kontakt.

References[edit]

  • "A-lag Dam" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  • "A-lag Dam – Kontakt" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  • Andersson, Torbjörn (2002). Kung fotboll: den svenska fotbollens kulturhistoria från 1800-talets slut till 1950 (in Swedish). Eslöv: Symposion. ISBN 91-7139-565-2.
  • Andersson, Torbjörn (2011). "Spela fotboll bondjävlar!": en studie i svensk klubbkultur och lokal identitet från 1950 till 2000-talets början (in Swedish). Vol. 1. Stockholm: Symposion. ISBN 978-91-7139-868-0.
  • Arbman Hansing, Sanna (2020). "Möte med framtiden". Offside (in Swedish). No. 4. Offside Press. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  • "Har du frågor eller funderingar kring IFK Göteborg?" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  • "IFK Göteborg 2022" (in Swedish). dam.ifkdb.se. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  • Josephson, Åke; Jönsson, Ingemar, eds. (2014). IFK Göteborg 2004–2014: nu fortsätter vi att berätta historien (in Swedish). Göteborg: IFK Göteborg. ISBN 978-91-637-6596-4.
  • Jörnvik, Ulf (18 November 2019). "Historiskt ögonblick på extra årsmötet" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  • Modeér, Marcus (12 December 2019). "Blåvitts damlag är igång" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  • Olausson, Alexander (24 June 2020). "Historiska IFK Göteborg visar vägen för unga tjejer". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  • Pihl Spahiu, Adrian (15 March 2021). "Rapport från IFK Göteborgs årsmöte "Även IFK Göteborgs medlemmar beslutar att föreningen ska verka mot VAR"". Alltid Blåvitt (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  • "Prioritet Serneke Arena – Fotbollshall" (in Swedish). Prioritet Serneke Arena. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  • "Publikfest i premiärsegern" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. 15 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  • "Satsningen på damlaget 2021" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. 21 December 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  • "Styrelse" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  • Tonnvik, Emma (24 June 2020). "Historisk seger för IFK Göteborg – dominerade i premiären". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  • "Victoria till Alingsås" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  • Wulcan, Marcus (3 November 2021). "IFK Göteborg vinner kvalet – efter drama". GT (in Swedish). Retrieved 30 April 2022.

External links[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IFK_Göteborg_(women)&oldid=1165390185"