Degerfors IF

Degerfors IF is a professional football club located in Degerfors, Sweden. The club was formed on 13 January 1907, and is currently playing in the highest tier in Swedish football, Allsvenskan.

Fans

Being a club in a town with a big iron industry, the club has a lot of politically progressive fans.^{[citation needed] [relevance?]} In their away game versus GAIS on the 13th of April 2025, the away fans displayed a banner saying “ultra rossoblaco - Against Fascism.”^{[citation needed]} And in 2024 they had another banner saying “no style, just working class”.^{[citation needed]}

Background

Degerfors IF first played in the Allsvenskan in 1939, making use of their new home ground at Stora Valla. Up until 1966, the club regularly appeared in the Allsvenskan; however, in recent decades they have played at the highest level for 5 seasons from 1993 to 1997. Their record attendance is 21,065 spectators when Degerfors IF played IFK Norrköping in 1963.

The club is affiliated to the Värmlands Fotbollförbund.^[1]

Season to season

Players

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Managers

• Arnold Andersson-Tagner (1936–37)
• István Wampetits (1937–44)
• Einar Skeppstedt (1945–47)
• Edmund Crawford (1948–49)
• Karl-Erik Jakobsson (1950)
• Imre Markos (1951–53)
• Gunnar Andersson (1953)
• Karl Neschy (1954–57)
• Olle Åhlund (1957–59)
• Bill Burnikell (1960–61)
• Tore Karlsson (1961)
• Gunnar Nordahl (1961–64)
• Vilmos Varszegi (1965–66)
• Ernst Bohlin (1961–67)
• Tore Karlsson (1968)
• Åke Klintberg (1969)
• Olle Åhlund (1970)
• Tore Karlsson (1971–72)
• Håkan Höglander (1973–74)
• Curt Edenvik (1975)
• Tord Grip (1976)
• Sven-Göran Eriksson (1977–78)
• Lars-Åke Bäckström (1979–80)
• Peter Pallman (1980)
• Janusz Pekowski (1981–82)
• Dave Mosson (1983–85)
• Björn Juhlin (1986–87)
• Lars Henriksson (1988)
• Kenneth Sundkvist (1989)
• Sören Cratz (1990–92)
• Börje Andersson (1993)
• Erik Hamrén (1994)
• Sören Cratz (1995–96)
• Bosse Nilsson (1997)
• Örjan Glans (1998)
• Kenneth Norling (1999–2001)
• Dave Mosson (2002–04)
• Tony Gustavsson (2005–06)
• Mark Selmer (2007)
• Milenko Vukčević (2007)
• Jan Stahre (2008)
• Patrik Werner (2009–2016)^[4]
• Stefan Jacobsson (2016–2019)
• Tobias Solberg and Andreas Holmberg (2020–2023)
• William Lundin (2024–)

Honours

League

• Allsvenskan:
  • Runners-up: 1940–41, 1963

• Superettan:
  • Winners: 2024

• Division 1 Norra:
  • Winners: 2009

Cups

• Svenska Cupen:
  • Winners: 1992–93

Footnotes

1. ^ "Kontaktuppgifter och tävlingar – Värmlands Fotbollförbund – Svenskfotboll.se". Archived 12 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2011-01-14.
2. ^ "GAIS – Lagfacta – Degerfors IF". Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
3. ^ "Spelartrupp" (in Swedish). Degerfors IF. 7 February 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
4. ^ http://www.nwt.se/sport/folj_degerfors/article1116863.ece?service=mobile ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Degerfors IF – official site
• Vulkanerna – official supporter club site
• Degerfors IF J – official site for the junior team (archived 13 March 2007)