Malmö FF

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Malmö FF

Full name

Malmö Fotbollförening

Nickname(s)

Di blåe (The blue ones)
Himmelsblått (Sky blue)

Founded

1910

Ground

Malmö Stadion,
Malmö
(Capacity 27,500)

Chairman

Bengt Madsen

Manager

Roland Nilsson

League

Allsvenskan

2007

Allsvenskan, 9th





Home colours





Away colours

This article is about Malmö FF's football section. For other sections of the club, see Malmö FF (disambiguation).

Malmö FF is a Swedish football club located in Malmö. The club, formed 24 February 1910, has won 15 national championship titles 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 played 0-1 to USA.

1 History
2 Club crest and colours
3 Stadiums
4 Supporters
5 In popular culture
6 Current squad and staff
7 League season results
8 Noted players
9 Noted managers
10 Club records
11 Achievements
12 External links

[edit] History

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[edit] Club crest and colours

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[edit] Stadiums

Malmö Stadion - Capacity: 27.500

Swedbank Stadion in March 2008.

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 24,000-seater stadium, which is currently being constructed next to Malmö Stadion.

[edit] 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]

[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 soccer star Kalle Öberg, who plays for MFF.

[edit] Current squad and staff

[edit] First team players

As of 1 April 2008.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Jonas Sandqvist
2	DF	Ulrich Vinzents
3	DF	Daniel Theorin
4	DF	Jimmy Dixon
5	DF	Gabriel
6	DF	Markus Halsti
7	DF	Anders Andersson
9	FW	Niklas Skoog
11	MF	Jeffrey Aubynn
13	MF	Babis Stefanidis
14	FW	Guillermo Molins
15	FW	André Nascimento (on loan from Araxá Esporte Clube)
16	DF	Christian Järdler

No.	Position	Player
17	MF	Joakim Nilsson
18	FW	Edward Ofere
20	MF	Ola Toivonen
22	MF	Robin Nilsson
23	MF	Labinot Harbuzi
24	FW	Agon Mehmeti
25	DF	Behrang Safari
26	MF	Jiloan Hamad
27	DF	Anes Mravac
30	MF	Daniel Andersson (Captain)
31	FW	Jonatan Johansson
32	DF	Niklas Hansson
35	GK	Dejan Garaca
40	GK	Dusan Melichárek (on loan from Mjällby AIF)

[edit] Players out on loan

No.	Position	Player
-	DF	Philip Milenkovic (at IFK Malmö until November 2008)
-	MF	Joakim Persson (at IFK Malmö until November 2008)
28	MF	Daniel Sliper (at LB07 until November 2008)

[edit] Technical staff

Name	Role
Roland Nilsson	Manager
Hans Gren	Assistant Manager
Staffan Tapper	First Team Coach / Head of Youth Academy
Jonnie Fedel	Goalkeeping Coach
Agne Bergvall	Fitness Coach
Leif Engqvist	U-21 Team Manager
Dr. Pär Herbertsson	Club Doctor
Rickard Dahan	Physiotherapist
Greger Andrijevski	Masseur
Kenneth Folkesson	Kit Man

[edit] League season results

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

[edit] Noted players

List of notable football players of Malmö FF's history:

1961 - 1980

1981 - 1990

1990s

Patrik Andersson
Jonnie Fedel
Niclas Kindvall
Joakim Persson
Jörgen Pettersson
Zlatan Ibrahimovic

2000s

[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)
Tom Prahl (2001-05)
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