Malmö FF

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

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 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. This was the only time a Swedish team has contested a European Cup/ Champions League final.

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.

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	DF	Anders Andersson
8	FW	Júnior
9	FW	Niklas Skoog
11	MF	Yksel Osmanovski
13	MF	Babis Stefanidis
16	DF	Christian Järdler
17	MF	Joakim Nilsson
18	FW	Edward Ofere
19	MF	Johan Andersson

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

2007 transfers

In

No.		Position	Player
13		MF	Babis Stefanidis (from Helsingborgs IF)

Out

No.	Position	Player
10	MF	Jari Litmanen (due to injury)
14	DF	Jon Inge Høiland (to Stabæk) [1]
21	DF	Raoul Kouakou (to Sandefjord Fotball)
26	FW	Marcus Pode (to FC Nordsjælland)

Noted players

Noted mangers

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