Göteborgs BK is a now defunct Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 football club which was located in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

. The club is the oldest football club in Sweden known by name, and the second oldest known club in Sweden, only preceded by an unnamed society from Gothenburg that was mentioned in an article in Göteborgs-Posten

Göteborgs-Posten

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 in May 1874. Göteborgs BK was founded a year later, in 1875, and most likely only played the code of football known as Swedish football

Swedish football (code)

Swedish football was a code of football devised and played in Sweden from the 1870s to the early 1890s, when the modern association football was introduced...

 which was similar to, but not identical to association football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

. The first chairman was G. Bohlander, a wholesale

Wholesale

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Göteborgs BK was probably one of the clubs that established a set of rules for Swedish football in 1885, along with Stockholms BK, founded in 1879 in Stockholm

Stockholm

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, and Visby BK from Visby

Visby

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. These three clubs were the leading in the at that time three leading towns in the development of football in Sweden

Football in Sweden

In Sweden, the most popular sport is association football, with over 240,000 licensed players—of which 56,000 are women—plus another 240,000 youth players. There are around 3,200 active clubs fielding over 8,500 teams, which are playing on the 7,900 pitches available in the country...

 and the rules established were to dominate the Swedish football scene in the following years. The club is also mentioned as having participated in a sport festival arranged by Göteborgs GS, a gymnastics

Gymnastics

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 club, on 4 September 1887, during which two of the club's teams played a match of Swedish football against each other on Heden

Heden

Heden is a ballcourt and public space/square in the centre of Gothenburg, Sweden. Football matches are played here in the run up to the final of the Gothia Cup. The final is played at Ullevi. Also the largest handball tournament in the world is played here during the summer: Partille Cup. Then...

. One of the players of the match was Carl Blidberg or his brother, or possibly both. Carl Blidberg was at the time chairman of the sport club IS Lyckans Soldater

IS Lyckans Soldater

IS Lyckans Soldater were a now defunct Swedish football club located in Göteborg...

, which started playing Swedish football in 1888. Lyckans Soldater also played the first football match ever played on Swedish soil between two Swedish teams using the association football rules, in 1892 against Örgryte IS

Örgryte IS

Örgryte IS, also commonly referred to as ÖIS, is a Swedish football club based in Gothenburg.-History:The club was founded on 4 December 1887 and participated in the first football match in Sweden on 22 May 1892. Örgryte IS has won 12 national championship titles and one national cup title. After...

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It is unknown when Göteborgs BK ceased to exist. On source claims that the club was re-formed in 1882 as Göteborgs IK, which in turn ceased to exist already sometime around 1885. It is unknown if "re-formed" means that the club had ceased to exist before that or "re-formed" only means that the club was reorganised that year.

The club was also active in other sports, including cricket

Cricket

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, athletics

Athletics (track and field)

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 and rowing

Rowing (sport)

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