Malmö FF
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| Full name | Malmö Fotbollförening | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Di blåe (The blue ones) Himmelsblått (Sky blues) |
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| Founded | 1910 | ||
| Ground | Swedbank Stadion, Malmö (Capacity: 24,000) |
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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 on 24 February 1910, has been awarded 15 national championship titles (despite winning the Swedish football league 18 times) and 14 national cup titles. Malmö FF was the runner-up in the 1979 European Champions Cup final, which they lost 1-0 to Nottingham Forest. For this, MFF were awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, as of 2009 the only club to have been so.
Malmö FF is together with AIK and IFK Göteborg one of the three dominant clubs in Swedish club football. 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 - during this season, Zlatan Ibrahimovic rose to fame and became an important player in their campaign to return to the top league. Ibrahimovic was later sold to Ajax in 2001, before being sold to Juventus and later Inter Milan.
The first degradation was decided by the Swedish Football Association since Malmö FF's arch rivals 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. At the end of the 2008 season, Malmö FF signed a co-operation deal with their former rivals, including two former Malmö FF players joining IFK Malmö as assistant and head coach.
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, midfielder/striker Yksel Osmanovski became the first Muslim player for Sweden, when Sweden lost 1-0 to USA.
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Malmö FF, is a Swedish sports club located in Malmö. It used to have a ladies section, known as Malmö FF Dam but, in 2007 the ladies section left the organisation and became LDB FC Malmö. Established on February 24, 1910, it is one of the dominating football clubs in Sweden since modern time.
The darkest spot in the history of Malmö FF was its relegation from Allsvenskan in 1999, for the second time. The root cause of the first relegation in 1933 was Malmö FF’s arch rival IFK Malmö, which had reported that the club was paying its players. Since this was strictly against the sports ethics in the 1930-ies, the Swedish Football Association decided to relegate Malmö FF from Allsvenskan. A number of Malmö FF’s fans are still indignant about this action taken by IFK Malmö.
In 1999 they were relegated from the Swedish top league for the second time, thus ending a 64 year long consecutive stay, by finishing second to last. However, the club regained its lost position in Allsvenskan in 2000.
Malmö had a successful season in 2004 when they won the Swedish championship for the 15th time by winning the Swedish League. It played 26 games that season, won 15, drew seven, and lost four. Total points adding up to 52, which was two points ahead of the runner-up.
Malmö FF is the only Swedish team to have played a final in the European Champions Cup. In 1979 it emerged as the runner-up, having lost 1-0 to Nottingham Forest. That year the club received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal for best sports achievement of the year.
[edit] Club Colours
The full name of this club is Malmö Fotbollforening. It is known by the nicknames Di blae (The Blue Ones) and Himmelsblatt (Sky Blue). It is also called “The Heavenly Blue”. The club colors of light blue and white could be the reason for these nicknames. The players wear sky blue shirts, white shorts, and skyblue socks. The away colors are red and white striped shirts, black shorts, and black socks.
[edit] Supporters
Malmö FF has several fan clubs, among which the main fan club is MFF Support. It was founded in 1992. 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.
MFF Support found itself in the limelight during a Royal League game in 2005, the first season of the Scandinavian Royal League Football Tournament. At this event, the Danish police allegedly attacked the members of the fan club without provocation at Parken, Copenhagen [1]. MFF Support held the police officers accountable for this scandal, and this event made several headlines in Denmark back in 2005 [2].
[edit] 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 Malmö Stadion. An upper tier was added to the stadium in the 80's, and was completed in 1992. [3]
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. Although there was still small-scale construction going on around the stadium at the time, the stadium was inaugurated on April 13, 2009 with a game against Örgryte IS; Malmö FF's Labinot Harbuzi scored the inaugural goal in the 61st minute.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Current squad
As of 2009-07-09.
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[edit] Technical staff
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[edit] 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
[edit] Noted players
List of notable football players of Malmö FF's history:
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[edit] 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)
- Michael Andersson (2000-2001)
- Tom Prahl (2002-05)
- Sören Åkeby (2006-07)
- Roland Nilsson (2008-)
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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) |
