IFK Uppsala Bandy explained

IFK Uppsala Bandy
Founded:	1895
Stadium:	Studenternas IP
City:	Uppsala, Sweden
Nat Championships:	12
Titles Label:	World Cup champions
Titles:	0

IFK Uppsala Bandy is the bandy department of the IFK Uppsala sports club. The club was founded in 1895 and based in Uppsala, Sweden. The club played bandy, association football and athletics already from the start.^[1] IFK was one of the major clubs in all of these sports in the first half of the 20th century. In the 1940s it was also successful in handball.

Bandy

IFK has won 12 Swedish bandy championships, but the last time was in 1933 when IF Göta was beaten in the final 11-1.^[2]

In the first year of bandy league system in Sweden, 1930–31, IFK Uppsala entered in Division 1 Södra together withDjurgårdens IF, IF Göta, IFK Strängnäs, IK Göta, Linköpings AIK, Nässjö IF, and Örebro SK and finished 8th.^[3]

The bandy team was disbanded in 1990, but the club took up the sport again for the 2006–07 season.^[4]

Honours

Domestic

• Swedish Champions:^[5]
  • Winners (12): 1907, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1933
  • Runners-up (2): 1921, 1934

References

1. Web site: Historik. Swedish. IFK Uppsala. 31 March 2014.
2. Web site: SM-finaler genom åren. Swedish Bandy Association. 31 March 2014.
3. Web site: Statistik. www.jimbobandy.nu. 2018-01-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20150222003422/http://www.jimbobandy.nu/oldtab/30-31.html. 2015-02-22. dead.
4. Web site: Historik, bandy. IFK Uppsala. 31 March 2014.
5. Web site: Herrar - Svenska Bandyförbundet . www.svenskbandy.se . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150217192201/http://www.svenskbandy.se/BANDYFINALEN/HISTORIK/Svenskamastare/Herrar/ . 2015-02-17.

External links

• IFK Uppsala – official homepage
• IFK Uppsala bandy – additional homepage for the bandy section