IFK Norrköping

Norrköping
Full name	Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping
Nicknames	Kamraterna (The Comrades); Snoka; Peking (Beijing); Vita-Blå (White-Blue)
Short name	IFK Nörrkoping; IFK; Nörrkoping;
Founded	29 May 1897; 129 years ago
Stadium	Norrköpings Idrottspark, Norrköping (Platinumcars Arena, Östgötaporten, Nya Parken, Idrottsparken)
Capacity	16,000
Chairman	Martin Gyllix
Manager	Eldar Abdulić
League	Superettan
2025	Allsvenskan, 14th of 16 ; (relegated)
Website	www.ifknorrkoping.se
	Current season

Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at PlatinumCars Arena.^[1] The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are white and blue. Formed on 29 May 1897, the club have won thirteen national championship titles and six national cup titles.

A chart showing the progress of IFK Norrköping through the swedish football league system. The different shades of gray represent league divisions.

IFK Norrköping supporter group Peking Fanz.

The club plays in the highest Swedish tier, Allsvenskan, which they first won in 1943.^[2] IFK Norrköping were most successful during the 1940s, when they won five Swedish championships and two Svenska Cupen titles under the Hungarian coach Lajos Czeizler and with players like Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm.

IFK Norrköping won the 2015 Allsvenskan, their first win since 1989, which also gave them a spot in the second qualification round of 2016–17 UEFA Champions League.

History

IFK Norrköping won the first division 11 times in 20 years, the last in 1963. It won for its 12th time in 1989.

On 31 October 2015, IFK Norrköping won its 13th championship title after defeating the defending champions Malmö FF with 2–0 away in Swedbank Stadion in Malmö in the last round of 2015 Allsvenskan.^[3] On 8 November IFK Norrköping won supercupen against Swedish cup winners IFK Göteborg. The result was 3–0.

Players

First-team squad

As of 26 March 2026^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	SWE	Theo Krantz
2	DF	NGA	Victor Romanus
3	MF	SWE	Viggo Fälth
4	DF	NOR	Jonas Weber
5	FW	SWE	Christoffer Nyman (captain)
6	MF	SWE	Viktor Christiansson
7	MF	SWE	Alexander Fransson
8	FW	ENG	Ryan Nelson
9	FW	SWE	Tim Prica
10	FW	NOR	Albert Aleksanjan
11	FW	SWE	Elias Jemal (on loan from Sandefjord)
15	FW	BFA	Kylian Seka
17	DF	GAM	Abdoulie Tamba
19	MF	SWE	Leo Lif
20	MF	SWE	Axel Brönner


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	FW	SEN	Mbaye Cissé
23	DF	NOR	Aleksander Opsahl
24	DF	SWE	Anton Eriksson
25	DF	SWE	Filip Dagerstål
28	FW	SWE	Åke Andersson
30	DF	NOR	Fabian Holst-Larsen
34	MF	SWE	Noel Sernelius
35	MF	GHA	Stephen Bolma
37	DF	TUN	Moutaz Neffati
38	MF	SWE	Ture Sandberg
91	GK	MKD	David Mitov Nilsson

Retired numbers

12 – Fans of the club

Winners of Guldbollen

Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson (right) playing in a 1964 game against Malmö FF.

League top scorers

Allsvenskan

Gunnar Nordahl 1944–45 (27 goals), 1945–46 (25 goals) and 1947–48 (18 goals)
Harry Bild 1956–57 (19 goals)
Henry "Putte" Källgren 1957–58 (27 goals) (shared with Bertil Johansson, IFK Göteborg)
Ove Kindvall 1966 (20 goals)
Jan Hellström 1989 (16 goals)
Niclas Kindvall 1994 (23 goals)
Imad Khalili 2013 (15 goals) (eight goals scored for Helsingborgs IF)
Emir Kujović 2015 (21 goals)
Kalle Holmberg 2017 (14 goals) (shared with Magnus Eriksson, Djurgårdens IF)
Christoffer Nyman 2020 (18 goals)
Samuel Adegbenro 2021 (17 goals)

Superettan (Division II 1924/1925–1986 and Division I 1987–1999)

Stefan Pettersson 1983 (17 goals)
Bruno Santos 2005 (17 goals)
Garðar Gunnlaugsson 2007 (18 goals)

Management

Technical staff

As of 12 December 2025^[5]

Name	Role
Henrik Jurelius	Sports director^[6]
Eldar Abdulic	Head coach
Henric Pekkala	Assistant coach
Tomas Vainio	Goalkeeping coach
Ari Skúlason	Transition coach
Pálmar Hreinsson	Fitness coach
Jacob Dahl	Analyst & scouting
Peter Cratz	Club doctor
Bengt Janzon	Club doctor
Nicolas Santi Aguilar	Physiotherapist
Kristoffer Karlsson	Physiotherapist
Daniel Ekwall	Mental coach
Simon Larsson	Equipment manager
Tobias Falk	Coordinator

Honours

League

1963: Bengt Nyholm, the keeper of IFK Norrköping, tries to improve his effectiveness by applying glue from flypaper to his hands

Swedish Champions^[A]
- Winners (13): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1989, 2015
Allsvenskan:
- Winners (12): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 2015
- Runners-up (10): 1952–53, 1957–58, 1959, 1961, 1966, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2018
Superettan:
- Winners (1): 2007
- Runners-up (1): 2010
Mästerskapsserien:
- Runners-up (2): 1991, 1992

Cups

Svenska Cupen:
- Winners (6): 1943, 1945, 1968–69, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1993–94
- Runners-up (5): 1944, 1953, 1967, 1971–72, 2016–17
Svenska Supercupen:
- Winners (1): 2015

IFK Norrköping in Europe

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1956–57	European Cup	1R	Florentina	0–1	1–1	1–2
1957–58	European Cup	1R	Red Star Belgrade	2–2	1–2	3–4
1962–63	European Cup	PR	Partizani Tirana	2–0	1–1	3–1
1962–63	European Cup	1R	Benfica	1–1	1–5	2–6
1963–64	European Cup	PR	Standard Liége	2–0	0–1	2–1
1963–64	European Cup	1R	Milan	1–1	2–5	3–6
1968–69	European Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Crusaders	4–1	2–2	6–3
1968–69	European Cup Winners' Cup	2R	Lyn	3–2	0–2	3–4
1969–70	European Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Sliema Wanderers	5–1	0–1	5–2
1969–70	European Cup Winners' Cup	2R	Schalke 04	0–0	0–1	0–1
1972–73	UEFA Cup	1R	UTA Arad	2–0	2–1	4–1
1972–73	UEFA Cup	2R	Inter Milan	0–2	2–2	2–4
1978–79	UEFA Cup	1R	Hibernian	0–0	2–3	2–3
1982–83	UEFA Cup	1R	Southampton	0–0	2–2	2–2 (a)
1982–83	UEFA Cup	2R	Roma	1–0	0–1 (2–4 p)	1–1
1988–89	European Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Sampdoria	2–1	0–2	2–3
1990–91	UEFA Cup	1R	1. FC Köln	0–0	1–3	1–3
1991–92	European Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Jeunesse Esch	4–0	2–1	6–1
1991–92	European Cup Winners' Cup	2R	Monaco	1–2	0–1	1–3
1992–93	UEFA Cup	1R	Torino	1–0	0–3	1–3
1993–94	UEFA Cup	1R	KV Mechelen	0–1	1–1 (aet)	1–2
1994–95	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	QR	Viktoria Žižkov	3–3	0–1	3–4
2000–01	UEFA Cup	QR	GÍ	2–1	2–0	4–1
2000–01	UEFA Cup	1R	Slovan Liberec	2–2	1–2	3–4
2016–17	UEFA Champions League	2Q	Rosenborg	3–2	1–3	4–5
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Prishtina	5–0	1–0	6–0
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Trakai	2–1	1–2 (3–5 p)	3–3
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	1Q	St Patrick's Athletic	2–1	2–0	4–1
		2Q	Liepāja	2–0	1–0	3–0
		3Q	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–1	1–3	2–4

Records

Most played games (Allsvenskan or Division I):

Christoffer Nyman, 322 games (2011–2016, 2019-)

Most league goals (Allsvenskan or Division I):

Henry "Putte" Källgren, 126 goals (1951–60)

Most spectators:

32 234 against Malmö FF, 7 June 1956

Biggest victory (Allsvenskan or Division I):

11–1 against Djurgårdens IF, 14 October 1945.

Biggest defeat (Allsvenskan or Division I):

0 – 11 against Örgryte IS, 6 April 1928 and Helsingborgs IF, 22 September 1929

Managerial history

List of IFK Norrköping managers (1905–present)^[8]^[9] ^[10]

Alexander "Sandy" Tait (1905)
Fred Spiksley (1910)
Herbert Butterworth (1921–22)
Imre Schlosser (1923–24)
Rudolf Haglund (1925–35)
Sölve Flisberg (1936)
Vilgot Lindberg (1936–37)
Torsten Johansson (1937–38)
Bengt Flisberg (1938–41)
Rudolf Haglund (1941)
Lajos Czeizler (1942–48)
Eric Keen (1949)
Karl Adamek (1950–53)
Torsten Lindberg (1954)
Karl Adamek (1955–57)
Vilmos Varszegi (1957–62)
Georg Ericson (1958–66)
Gunnar Nordahl (1967–70)
Gösta Löfgren (1971–72)
Örjan Martinsson (1973–74)
Bengt Gustavsson (1975–78)
Gunnar Nordahl (1979–80)
Bo Axberg (1981–82)
Lars-Göran Qwist (1983–84)
Kent Karlsson (1985–89)
Jörgen Augustsson (1990)
Sanny Åslund (1991–92)
Sören Cratz (1993–94)
Kent Karlsson (1995)
Tomas Nordahl (1995)
Colin Toal (1996–97)
Olle Nordin (1997–00)
Tor-Arne Fredheim (2001)
Bengt-Arne Strömberg (2002)
Håkan Ericson (2002–03)
Stefan Hellberg (2004–05)
Mats Jingblad (2005–08)
Sören Cratz (2007–08)
Göran Bergort (2009–10)
Janne Andersson (1 January 2011 – 23 June 2016)
Jens Gustafsson (24 June 2016 – 19 December 2020)
Rikard Norling (23 December 2020 – 11 July 2022)
Anes Mravac (11 July 2022 – 8 August 2022) Caretaker
Vedran Vucicevic (11 July 2022 – 8 August 2022) Caretaker
Glen Riddersholm (8 August 2022 – 13 November 2023)
Andreas Alm (29 December 2023 – 9 December 2024)
Martin Falk (21 December 2024 – 16 December 2025)
Eldar Abdulic (16 December 2025 – present)

Affiliate clubs

Other sections

IFK Norrköping also maintains departments for women's football, set up in 2009, orienteering, bowling and bandy. The bandy team played in Sweden's highest division in 1937.

Part of the club was also an ice hockey team which played in the seasons 1950/51 and 1955/56 in the highest Swedish division. The ice hockey teams of IFK and local rivals IK Sleipner were joined in 1967 to form IF IFK/IKS, known from 1973 forward as IK Vita Hästen ("Ice Hockey Club White Horse") which evolved into today's HC Vita Hästen.

Footnotes

↑ The title of "Swedish Champions" has been awarded to the winner of four different competitions over the years. Between 1896 and 1925 the title was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played. In 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 a play-off in cup format was held at the end of the league season to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the title was decided by the winner of Mästerskapsserien, an additional league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan.^[7]

References

↑ "Kontaktuppgifter och tävlingar – Östergötlands Fotbollförbund – Svenskfotboll.se". Archived from the original on 10 December 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
↑ "Svenska mästare 1896–1925, 1931–". svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2 December 2009. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
↑ ""När jag såg pappa så brast det för mig"". 31 October 2015. Archived from the original on 2 November 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
↑ "IFK Norrköpings trupp" (in Swedish). IFK Norrköping. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
↑ Herrlaget 9 January 2025
↑ Välkommen till IFK, Henrik Jurelius 18 November 2025
↑ "Svenska mästare 1896–1925, 1931–" [Swedish champions 1896–1925, 1931–]. svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Archived from the original on 2 December 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
↑ IFK Norrköping tränare 1921–2003. Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. gruvstugan.com. 6 January 2018.
↑ IFK Norrköpings historia – Tränare/Lagledare Archived 7 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine. tomasjunglander.se. 7 January 2018.
↑ IFK Norrköpings historia – lagbild 1905 Archived 7 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine. tomasjunglander.se. 7 January 2018.
↑ Samarbetet med Sylvia Archived 5 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine‚ svenskafans.com, 21 January 2014
↑ Officiellt: Husqvarna FF lånar Julius Lindgren Archived 5 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine‚ svenskafans.com, 24 August 2017

External links

IFK Norrköping – official site
Peking Fanz – official supporter club site

[champions-8] The title of "Swedish Champions" has been awarded to the winner of four different competitions over the years. Between 1896 and 1925 the title was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played. In 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 a play-off in cup format was held at the end of the league season to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the title was decided by the winner of Mästerskapsserien, an additional league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan.^[7]

[1] "Kontaktuppgifter och tävlingar – Östergötlands Fotbollförbund – Svenskfotboll.se". Archived from the original on 10 December 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2011.

[Allsvenskan_&_Swedish_champions-2] "Svenska mästare 1896–1925, 1931–". svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2 December 2009. Retrieved 25 November 2009.

[3] ""När jag såg pappa så brast det för mig"". 31 October 2015. Archived from the original on 2 November 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2015.

[4] "IFK Norrköpings trupp" (in Swedish). IFK Norrköping. Retrieved 6 March 2026.

[5] Herrlaget 9 January 2025

[6] Välkommen till IFK, Henrik Jurelius 18 November 2025

[Allsvenskan_&_Swedish_champions2-7] "Svenska mästare 1896–1925, 1931–" [Swedish champions 1896–1925, 1931–]. svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Archived from the original on 2 December 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2012.

[9] IFK Norrköping tränare 1921–2003. Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. gruvstugan.com. 6 January 2018.

[10] IFK Norrköpings historia – Tränare/Lagledare Archived 7 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine. tomasjunglander.se. 7 January 2018.

[11] IFK Norrköpings historia – lagbild 1905 Archived 7 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine. tomasjunglander.se. 7 January 2018.

[12] Samarbetet med Sylvia Archived 5 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine‚ svenskafans.com, 21 January 2014

[13] Officiellt: Husqvarna FF lånar Julius Lindgren Archived 5 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine‚ svenskafans.com, 24 August 2017

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