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Landskrona BoIS
Full name	Landskrona Boll; och Idrottsällskap
Founded	1915
Ground	Landskrona IP,; Landskrona; (Capacity: 12,000)
Chairman	Kenneth Håkansson
Manager	Vacant
League	Superettan
2009	Superettan, 8th
Home colours	Away colours

Landskrona BoIS (simply referred to as BoIS) is a Swedish professional football club located in Landskrona, which currently plays in the second highest Swedish division, Superettan. The club, formed on 7 February 1915 was a merger of two clubs from the city of Landskrona; IFK Landskrona and Diana. Landskrona BoIS has got one national cup title. The club play their matches at Landskrona IP, which holds a capacity of 12,500 spectators, but only 3500 seats. The club's main sponsor is Umbro.

[edit] History

[edit] Early years: The foundation of the club

Landskrona BoIS were founded on February 7 1915 as a merger between two clubs from the city of Landskrona, IFK Landskrona and Diana BK.

The first match ever played abroad was in July 1918, against the Danish team KFUM from Copenhagen.

The best player in Landskrona at this period was Albin Dahl, who played for the club between 1915 and 1921 before joining Helsingborgs IF. The transfer caused a little trouble, since both clubs couldn't agree on the terms. Many people claims that it was here the big rivalry between Landskrona and Helsingborg began.

However, Albin Dahl was the clubs first, and only, olympic competitor, since he represented Sweden at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerpen.^[1]

[edit] The 1920s: The first seasons in Allsvenskan

In 1924, Landskrona IP (or Karlsunds IP) was built. Thanks to this, Landskrona earned a place in the first season of Allsvenskan ever, as one out of twelve Swedish teams.

The first match ever in Allsvenskan were played August the 3d 1924, against IFK Norrköping away. A match that ended with a 1-0 victory.

The first match in Allsvenskan at Landskrona IP was a lost with 4-0 against IFK Göteborg. Landskrona finished their first season in Allsvenskan on 6th place.

The biggest star in BoIS at this point were Harry "Hacke" Dahl, younger brother to Albin, who did the opposite to his brother when he came back to Landskrona after one year in Helsingborg.

Harry Dahl was, like his brother, about to play for Sweden in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, but his supervisor at Thulinverket refused to let him go.

When he left Landskrona in 1932, he had scored incomparable 334 goals on 410 matches, and he's still the club's best goalscorer through all times.^[2]

[edit] The 1930s and 40s: A successful period

The year after Harry "Hacke" Dahl left, in 1933, BoIS were relegated for the first time. But the club came back to Allsvenskan the next season, and this time they had their first real manager in Nisse Svensson. He took Landskrona to the top of the league, with a third place in 1937-38 and a fourth place in 1938-39.^[3]

The 1940s was not as good as the 1930s, seen in BoIS' point of wiew. The team had no stability and went up and down through Allsvenskan and the second highest level without any remarkable results.

But the big exception came in the newfounded Svenska Cupen. In 1949, eight years after the cup were established, Landskrona, again as an Allsvenskan team, made their way to the final by defeating Mjölby, Helsingborgs IF, Råå IF and BK Kenty.

In the final, played the 24th of July, they met AIK in front of 14.718 spectators at Råsunda Stadium in Solna. Unfortunately they lost with 1-0, after AIK scored on a penalty, because of a Landskrona player blocking the ball with his hand.^[4]

[edit] The 1950s and 1960s

The club had to leave Allsvenskan in 1949 and didn't had a comeback until season of 1971. However Landskrona BoIS played qualification games for Allsvenskan in 1958, 1959, 1962 and 1968 - all without success. In 1962 qualification games were a four team group that played each other once only. The third round was played at neutral grounds. When Landskrona BoIS game was finished, they were in Allsvenskan. But the other game had been delayed a few minutes, in which a goal was scored and AIK from Stockholm qualified instead. During this period the main star player was Hasse "HP" Persson.

[edit] The 1970's

After the big rival club Helsingborg IF was relegated in 1968 and had no success in the qualification to Allsvenskan 1969, the year 1970 became a very importaint for Landskrona BoIS. To get to the qualification games they had to win at hom against Helsingborg IF, and they did with a single goal. Then the qualification finally became succesfull. And in 1971 the club returned to Allsvenskan, and stayed there for ten years which included two bronze medals (1975 and 1976) and a cup win in 1972. The clubs ever main star Sonny Johansson contributed to this in a major way. Sonny played for the club 1968-1984 and scored more then 300 goals for the club. During the whole 1970's he scored more goals in Allsvenskan then any other player during that period.

[edit] Later years

In 1980 the club was relegated and again in 1984. Thow only for one year in the third division. The played a single year in Allsvenskan in 1994, but was relegated at once. The club then got it self in huge economical difficulties, and was relegated to the third division at once. This time the club needed two years to recover from "the dirt" his was made with Sonny Johansson as manager. In 1998 they once again had the chance to qualify to Allsvenskan but failed. But in 2001 promtion to the highest league once again was a fact. This time it lasted for four seasons. Currently they play in the division below Allsvenskan, but has hopes for the future. In 2001 the club was promoted for Allsvenskan again, this time it lasted four seasons.

[edit] Stadium

Landskrona IP was built in 1924, the same year as the first season of Allsvenskan.^[5] In July 20 1924 it was held an opening ceremony, where the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and Princess Louise inaugurated the stadium in front of 6,000 spectators.
As a part of the opening ceremony, the first match ever was played. It was a friendly match between Landskrona BoIS and B 03 from Denmark. The danes won the match with 3-2.

The first match in Allsvenskan on Landskrona IP were in August 10 1924, when BoIS played IFK Göteborg and lost with 4-0.

The record attendance is 18,535, and was set October 18 1959 in a qualifying match to Allsvenskan, against Degerfors IF. Today the record is impossible to beat, because the capacity of the stadium has been reduced to 12.500, due to safety regulations. Recently, there has been discussions about a renovation of the stadium, but also about the building of a new one, with a capacity of 14,000 spectators.^[6]^[7]

[edit] Supporters

The official supporter club is called Black & White, and was established 1993, before the upcoming season of Allsvenskan, where Landskrona made a comeback after several years in the lower divisions.^[8] Since the building of Landskrona IP in 1924, the singing supporters have always stood on the part of IP called the “English Stand” (in Swedish: Engelska Läktaren).
But in 2006 this was about to change. A group of supporters break loose from the main claque, and began to stand on the Western Stand, build in 2004. Influenced by southern European football cultures, they formed the supporter fraction Fanaticos Landskrona, which is now the leading supporter group in Landskrona.

The main rivals to Landskrona is Helsingborgs IF. The cities lies very close, and the supporters of the both teams holds a certain grudge against each other, which leads back to the beginning of 20th century.

There is also a big rivalry between Landskrona and Malmö FF, which reaches back to the 1940s. The matches between the teams from Scania (in Swedish called Skånederbyn) are some of the most interesting in Swedish football, and is always seen by a big number of spectators.

[edit] Current squad

As of 29 November 2009.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Peter Karlsson
3	DF	Linus Malmqvist (captain)
5	MF	Simon Alm
6	DF	Philip Andersson
7	MF	Johan Persson
9	FW	Calle Genberg
10	DF	Linus Olsson
11	FW	Fredrik Olsson
13	MF	Alexander Zaim
14	DF	Max Mölder

No.	Position	Player
15	FW	Pär Cederqvist
16	MF	Babis Stefanidis (on loan from Malmö FF)
18	MF	Jesper Olsson
19	DF	Joakim Persson
20	MF	Christoffer Tapper Holter
21	DF	Alagie Sosseh
22	GK	Mirza Selimović
24	DF	Jesper Westerberg
	MF	Fredrik Svanbäck
	MF	Patrik Åström

For recent transfers, see List of Swedish football transfers winter 2009–10.

[edit] Statistics

[edit] League season results

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Notes	The Cup
2000	Superettan	4	30	16	4	10	59	37	52		Round of 32
2001	Superettan	2	30	20	5	5	60	26	65	promoted	Round of 32
2002	Allsvenskan	11	26	8	6	12	41	39	30		2nd round
2003	Allsvenskan	11	26	8	8	10	26	39	32		2nd round
2004	Allsvenskan	11	26	7	9	10	27	33	30		Round of 32
2005	Allsvenskan	12	26	8	6	12	26	44	30	relegated	Round of 32
2006	Superettan	5	30	15	5	10	53	39	50		Quarterfinal
2007	Superettan	11	30	9	8	13	39	45	35		Semifinal
2008	Superettan	11	30	10	8	12	36	44	38		Round of 16
2009	Superettan	8	30	12	4	14	51	46	40		Round of 16

[edit] Player and goal of the year

Season	Player of the Year	Goal of the Year
2000	Håkan Söderstjerna	No player awarded
2001	Daniel Nannskog	Hasan Çetinkaya against Mjällby AIF
2002	Alexander Farnerud	Alexander Farnerud against Hammarby IF
2003	Johan Andersson	Henrik Nilsson against Malmö FF
2004	Jonas Sandqvist	Kevin Amuneke against Helsingborgs IF
2005	Jörgen Pettersson	Gustav Andersson against Helsingborgs IF
2006	Jörgen Pettersson	Morten Avnskjold against Assyriska FF
2007	Pär Cederqvist	Pär Cederqvist against IF Sylvia
2008	Linus Malmqvist	Jörgen Pettersson against Mjällby AIF

[edit] Top scorer by season

Season	Player	Goals
2000	Danijel Milovanovic	11
	Håkan Söderstjerna	11
2001	Daniel Nannskog	21
2002	Daniel Nannskog	11
2003	Matthias Eklund	5
	Alexander Farnerud	5
2004	Kevin Amuneke	7
2005	Kevin Amuneke	7
2006	Matthias Eklund	10
2007	Pär Cederqvist	9
2008	Pär Cederqvist	7
2009	Pär Cederqvist	14
	Fredrik Olsson	14

[edit] Landskrona BoIS in Europe

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Score
1972	Intertoto Cup	GR	Eintracht Braunschweig	3-0, 0-2
			TJ ZVL Žilina	2-2, 0-1
			Vejle BK	0-0, 2-1
1972/73	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R	FC Rapid Bucureşti	1-0, 0-3
1974	Intertoto Cup	GR	CUF Barreiro	1-1, 0-1
			Altay S.K.	1-1, 1-1
			Hammarby IF	4-0, 2-1
1976	Intertoto Cup	GR	TJ Sklo Union Teplice	1-1, 0-0
			Kickers Offenbach	1-2, 0-1
			Grasshopper-Club Zürich	0-0, 0-1
1977	Intertoto Cup	GR	Slavia Prague	3-5, 1-6
			Legia Warszawa	1-2, 0-1
			BSC Young Boys	2-1, 0-4
1977/78	UEFA Cup	1R	Ipswich Town F.C.	0-1, 0-5