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

26,500

Chairman

Bengt Madsen

Manager

Sören Åkeby

League

Allsvenskan

2006

Allsvenskan, 7th





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, 14 national cup titles, and has played a final in the European Champions Cup in football.

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. It happened in 1979, when they lost 0-1 against Nottingham Forest with half the ordinary team injured. 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 Current squad
2 Noted players
3 Noted mangers
4 Achievements
5 External links

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Håkan Svensson
2	DF	Ulrich Vinzents
3	DF	Daniel Theorin
4	DF	Jimmy Dixon
5	DF	Gabriel
7	MF	Anders Andersson
8	FW	Júnior
9	FW	Niklas Skoog
10	MF	Jari Litmanen
11	FW	Yksel Osmanovski
13	FW	Samuel Barlay
14	DF	Jon Inge Høiland
16	DF	Christian Järdler
17	MF	Joakim Nilsson
18	FW	Edward Ofere
19	MF	Johan Andersson

No.	Position	Player
20	MF	Ola Toivonen
21	DF	Raoul Kouakou
23	MF	Labinot Harbuzi
24	MF	Daniel Sliper
25	FW	Behrang Safari
26	FW	Marcus Pode
27	MF	Anes Mravac
28	MF	Joakim Persson
29	MF	Robin Nilsson
30	MF	Daniel Andersson (Captain)
31	MF	Jonatan Johansson
32	MF	Niklas Hansson
34	DF	Guillermo Molins
35	GK	Jonas Sandqvist
40	GK	Jonnie Fedel (also goalkeeper coach)

[edit] Noted players

[edit] Noted mangers

Bob Houghton
Roy Hodgson
Tord Grip

[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