Ängelholms FF

Ängelholms FF

Full name	Ängelholms Fotbollförening
Founded	1976
Ground	Ängelholms IP, Ängelholm
Capacity	4,000
Chairman	Mats Johansson
Head coach	Christian Järdler
League	Division 1 Södra
2016	Superettan, 16th (relegated)
Home colours Away colours

Ängelholms IP

Ängelholms FF is a football club based in Ängelholm, Sweden. The club is affiliated to Skånes Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Ängelholms IP. The club was formed in 1976 as a merger between Ängelholms IF and Skörpinge GIF. The club is currently playing in Division 1, the third highest tier of Swedish football.^[1]

History

Ängelholms IF were founded in 1905 and Skörpinge GIF were founded in 1950. Ängelholms IF had their most successful period in the 1930s when they played in Swedish Division 2 against clubs such as Malmö FF, Halmstads BK and Helsingborgs IF. Ängelholms IF were the most successful club in Ängelholm until Skörpinge GIF were founded and later seriously started to compete for the best talents of the town.

Discussions of a possible merger initiated in 1975 after the two clubs realised the potential in a merger. Both clubs realised that the best opportunity for Ängelholm to have a professional club would be to merge the two clubs. They merged in 1976 and founded Ängelholms FF. However the success that the two clubs had in vision took until the 1990s to aspire. Between 1997 and 2001, Ängelholms FF were promoted from Division 4 to the second highest tier, Superettan. The club was relegated back to Division 2 and played there until they were promoted to the newly created tier three, Division 1. The club was once again promoted in their second season of the league and found themselves in Superettan for the second time in the clubs history. In 2008 the club reached their highest position in the Swedish league system yet, 5th place in Superettan.

Players

First-team squad

As of 19 March 2016^[2]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Oscar Berglund 2 DF Martin Rudolfsson 3 DF Fredrik Lundgren 4 DF Patrick Dyrestam (on loan from IFK Göteborg) 5 DF Zeyn S-Latef 6 DF Albin Nilsson 7 MF Sebastian Carlsén 8 MF Christian Ljungberg 9 FW Ryan Finley 10 MF Philip Bernholtz 11 MF Björn Westerblad (vice captain) 13 FW Ardian Rexhepi

No. Position Player 14 MF Johan Eiswohld 15 FW Fredrik Karlsson (captain) 16 MF Love Fredriksson 18 FW Andreas Karlsson 19 MF Astrit Sejmani 20 MF Vlado Zlojutro 21 MF Marcus Bergholtz 22 GK Carl Lindell 23 DF Erik Johansson 24 DF Dennis Stojanović-Fredin 25 GK Hugo Olsson

Current youth players with first-team experience

As of 21 February 2015^{[upper-alpha 1]}

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

No. Position Player — MF Stanley Batres Prado

No. Position Player — MF Axel Grahn

For season transfers, see transfers winter 2014–15.

Retired numbers

12 – Daniel Johansson, defender (1996–2009)

Achievements

League

• Division 1 Södra:
  • Runners-up (1): 2007

Footnotes

1. Current youth players who at least have sat on the bench in a competitive match.

References

1. "Kontaktuppgifter och tävlingar – Skånes Fotbollförbund – Svenskfotboll.se". Retrieved 2011-01-12.
2. "A-laget" (in Swedish). Ängelholms FF. Retrieved 11 July 2013.

External links

• Ängelholms FF – official site