Ängelholms FF

Ängelholms FF
Full name Ängelholms Fotbollförening
Founded 1976 (1976)
Ground Ängelholms IP, Ängelholm
Ground Capacity 4,000
Chairman Mats Johansson
Head coach Christian Järdler
League Division 1 Södra
2016 Superettan, 16th (relegated)
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 Sweden GK Oscar Berglund
2 Sweden DF Martin Rudolfsson
3 Sweden DF Fredrik Lundgren
4 Sweden DF Patrick Dyrestam (on loan from IFK Göteborg)
5 Poland DF Zeyn S-Latef
6 Sweden DF Albin Nilsson
7 Sweden MF Sebastian Carlsén
8 Sweden MF Christian Ljungberg
9 United States FW Ryan Finley
10 Sweden MF Philip Bernholtz
11 Sweden MF Björn Westerblad (vice captain)
13 Sweden FW Ardian Rexhepi
No. Position Player
14 Sweden MF Johan Eiswohld
15 Sweden FW Fredrik Karlsson (captain)
16 Sweden MF Love Fredriksson
18 Sweden FW Andreas Karlsson
19 Sweden MF Astrit Sejmani
20 Sweden MF Vlado Zlojutro
21 Sweden MF Marcus Bergholtz
22 Sweden GK Carl Lindell
23 Sweden DF Erik Johansson
24 Sweden DF Dennis Stojanović-Fredin
25 Sweden 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
— Sweden MF Stanley Batres Prado
No. Position Player
— Sweden MF Axel Grahn

For season transfers, see transfers winter 2014–15.

Retired numbers

12 – Daniel Johansson, defender (1996–2009)

Achievements

League

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.
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