IFK Lidingö FK is a 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 located in Lidingö

Lidingö

Lidingö is an island in the inner Stockholm archipelago, located north east of central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. It is also the seat of Lidingö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 44,000 inhabitants in 2011....

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Background

IFK Lidingö

IFK Lidingö

IFK Lidingö is a Swedish sports club, part of the IFK system, based on the island of Lidingö outside Stockholm. Although the club takes part in numerous sports, it is most famous for its football, athletics and orienteering sections. The football team are called IFK Lidingö FK.The club was founded...

 is a 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....

 sports club that was founded in 1932 and is based on the island of Lidingö

Lidingö

Lidingö is an island in the inner Stockholm archipelago, located north east of central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. It is also the seat of Lidingö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 44,000 inhabitants in 2011....

 outside Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

. Although the club takes part in numerous sports, it is most famous for its 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...

, athletics

Athletics (track and field)

Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...

 and orienteering

Orienteering

Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...

 sections. The club currently has 400 members, most of them under 15 years of age.

The football section is known as IFK Lidingö FK and currently plays in Division 4

Swedish football Division 4

Division 4 is the sixth level in the league system of Swedish football and comprises 39 sections with 8 to 12 football teams in each.- The competition :There are 39 groups of 8 to 12 teams each representing a local geographical area...

 Stockholm Norra which is the sixth tier of Swedish football

Swedish football league system

The Swedish football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in Sweden which is controlled by the Swedish Football Association and consists of 276 teams in 22 leagues divided into five levels...

. They play their home matches at the Lidingövallen in Lidingö.

The club is affiliated to Stockholms Fotbollförbund

Stockholms Fotbollförbund

The Stockholms Fotbollförbund is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in Stockholm County.- Background :...

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Season to season

In their most successful period IFK Lidingö competed in the following divisions:

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Season	Level	Division	Section	Position	Movements
1939-40	Tier 3	Division 3	Östsvenska	4th
1940-41	Tier 3	Division 3	Östsvenska Södra	1st	Promotion Playoffs - Promoted
1941-42	Tier 2	Division 2	Norra	10th	Relegated
1942-43	Tier 3	Division 3	Östsvenska Södra	1st	Promotion Playoffs
1943-44	Tier 3	Division 3	Östsvenska Södra	7th
1944-45	Tier 3	Division 3	Östsvenska Södra	3rd
1945-46	Tier 3	Division 3	Östsvenska Södra	1st	Promotion Playoffs - Promoted
1946-47	Tier 2	Division 2	Östra	9th	Relegated
1947-48	Tier 3	Division 3	Östra	9th	Relegated

In recent seasons IFK Lidingö FK have competed in the following divisions:

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Season	Level	Division	Section	Position	Movements
1993	Tier 4	Division 3	Norra Svealand	11th	Relegated
1994	Tier 5	Division 4	Stockholm Norra	1st	Promoted
1995	Tier 4	Division 3	Östra Svealand	5th
1996	Tier 4	Division 3	Östra Svealand	4th
1997	Tier 4	Division 3	Östra Svealand	12th	Relegated
1998	Tier 5	Division 4	Stockholm Mellersta	1st	Promoted
1999	Tier 4	Division 3	Östra Svealand	8th
2000	Tier 4	Division 3	Östra Svealand	6th
2001	Tier 4	Division 3	Östra Svealand	1st	Promoted
2002 Division 2 2002 Statistics of Swedish football Division 2 in season 2002.-Division 2 Norrland:-Division 2 Västra Svealand:-Division 2 Östra Svealand:-Division 2 Östra Götaland:-Division 2 Västra Götaland:...	Tier 3	Division 2	Östra Svealand	11th	Relegated
2003	Tier 4	Division 3	Norra Svealand	11th	Relegated
2004	Tier 5	Division 4	Stockholm Mellersta	8th
2005	Tier 5	Division 4	Stockholm Mellersta	1st
2006*	Tier 5	Division 3	Norra Svealand	10th	Relegated
2007	Tier 6	Division 4	Stockholm Mellersta	12th	Relegated
2008	Tier 7	Division 5	Stockholm Mellersta	5th
2009	Tier 7	Division 5	Stockholm Mellersta	7th
2010	Tier 7	Division 5	Stockholm Mellersta	1st	Promoted
2011	Tier 6	Division 4	Stockholm Norra	4th

* League restructuring in 2006 resulted in a new division being created at Tier 3 and subsequent divisions dropping a level.

External links

• IFK Lidingö FK - Official Website
• IFK Lidingö FK Facebook