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.

IFK Göteborg

Full name	Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll)
Nickname(s)	Blåvitt (Blue-white) Änglarna (The Angels) Kamraterna (The Comrades)
Short name	IFK
Founded	4 October 1904; 118 years ago (1904-10-04) (club) 18 November 2019; 2 years ago (2019-11-18) (women's senior team)
Ground	Valhalla IP, Gothenburg
Capacity	4,000
Coordinates	57°42′5.4″N 11°59′25.1″E
Owner	Member-owned
Chairman	Richard Berkling
Head coach	Peter Svanström
League	Division 2 Nordvästra Götaland
2021	Division 3 Göteborg, 1st
Website	Club website
Home colours

History

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

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

First-team squad

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  SWE Tilda Gustafsson 2 DF  SWE Ashley Hall Hellström 4 DF  SWE Selma Holmberg 6 FW  SWE Filippa Hopkins 7 FW  SWE Alicia Hall Hellström 8 MF  SWE Alexandra Larsson 9 MF  SWE Thilda Gianello 11 MF  AUT Isabella Svanström 12 GK  SWE Emelie Claesson 14 DF  SWE Malva Larsson 15 MF  SWE Jenny Helgesson 17 FW  SWE Novalie Jensen 18 MF  SWE Mathilda Berg 19 MF  SWE Isabella Veiszhaupt

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 DF  SWE Johanna Lundberg 21 DF  SWE Mimmi Bauréus 22 MF  SWE Emma Broddheimer 22 MF  SWE Tindra Rodéhn 23 DF  SWE Leia Molund 24 GK  SWE Victoria Ljunggren 24 FW  SWE Felicia Holmberg 26 MF  SWE Olivia Zachau Friborg 28 DF  SWE Linnea Ocampo Hägglund 29 DF  SWE Aliima Attervall Alase 29 DF  SWE Linnea Linden — MF  SWE Filippa Andersson — MF  SWE Elin Berggren

Out on loan

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  SWE Victoria Svanström (at Alingsås FC until 31 December 2022)[16]

Management

Organisation

As of 30 April 2022[17][18]

Name Role Richard Berkling Chairman Peter Brandt Secretary Håkan Mild Club director Jonas Olsson Director of youth academy Roger Gustafsson Youth academy training manager

Technical staff

As of 30 April 2022[19][14]

Name Role Peter Svanström Head coach Moa Pettersson Assistant coach Eva Qvistgaard Assistant coach

Citations

References

External links

• Official website