Piteå IF

Piteå Idrottsförening, commonly known as Piteå IF, is a Swedish football club located in Piteå that currently competes in Sweden's top-division women's league, Damallsvenskan.

For the club's men's team, see Piteå IF (men).
Piteå IF
Full namePiteå Idrottsförening
Founded1985 (1985)
GroundLF Arena
Piteå
Sweden
Capacity3,950
ChairmanBerndt Siljemark
CoachStellan Carlsson
LeagueDamallsvenskan
20196th
WebsiteClub website

In 2018, they won the Swedish national Championship for the first time.[1]

History

The sports club was formed on 24 May 1918 but did not take up men's football until 1920 when they united with their local rival club IFK Piteå, which then was dissolved. The women's team was founded in 1985. Piteå IF's female section is currently playing in the highest league, Damallsvenskan, which it reached for the first time in 2009.[2]

The club has one of the largest football youth academies in the county of Norrbotten and is one of two clubs who arrange the large international youth soccer cup, the Piteå Summer Games.[3]

Players

Current squad
As of 27 June 2020.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  SWE Caroline Frykgård
2 DF  SWE Lena Blomkvist
3 DF  SWE Linnea Selberg
4 MF  SWE Josefin Johansson (captain)
5 DF  SWE Sejde Abrahamsson
6 DF  SCO Cailin Michie
7 MF  SWE Linn Vikström
8 MF  SWE Julia Karlernäs
9 FW  SWE Cajsa Hedlund
10 FW  FIN Vilma Koivisto
11 MF  SWE Cecilia Edlund
12 MF  SWE Olivia Wänglund
14 DF  NGA Faith Ikidi
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 MF  SWE Ellen Löfkvist
16 DF  SWE Maja Green
17 MF  SWE Selina Henriksson
18 MF  SWE Nina Jakobsson
19 MF  SWE Astrid Larsson
21 DF  SWE Sofia Wännerdahl
22 FW  BRA Fernanda
25 GK  NOR Guro Pettersen

Former players

Stadium

The club plays their home matches at LF Arena.

gollark: Wouldn't you just constantly stay near maximum size then?
gollark: What, resizing a flappy bird to go through pipes?
gollark: Oopsle!
gollark: ⛄
gollark: Roughly, though it's a little bit hard to read.

References
  1. Jens Kärrman (27 October 2018). "Piteå tog första guldet efter dramatik" (in Swedish). Dagens nyheter. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. "Piteå IF". Damfotboll. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  3. "Pitea Summer Games 2015". International Sports Entertainment Agency. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.