Hammarby IF Fotbollföreningmore commonly known as Hammarby Fotboll or Hammarby [1] Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhâmːa r ˌbyː] or, especially locally, [-ˌbʏ]is a Swedish professional football club from Stockholm founded in hjälp familjen hammarby The club is based at Tele2 Arena in Johanneshov but founded in the neighbouring Södermalm district of Stockholm City Centrethe area that is the clubs heartland.
Competing in Sweden's first tierAllsvenskan[3] Hammarby are placed tenth in the all-time Allsvenskan table[4] and has won the league once, in The club has competed in the Svenska Cupen final five times, winning their first title in The club's colours are green and white, which are reflected in its crest and kit.
Between andhowever, the club played in black-and-yellow striped home shirts, which since often form the club's away colors. It is known for its vociferous fans and for having the highest average attendance in the Nordic countries.
InHammarby Roddförening "Hammarby Rowing Association" was established in Södermalmwith engineer Axel Robert Schönthalthe first chairman, being credited as the founder. Inthe sporting ground Hammarby IP was built in Södermalm.
Due to a lack of football pitches in Stockholm, several other clubs proposed to merge with Hammarby IF to get access to the stadium. An offer from Klara SK was accepted and Hammarby officially established a football department on 13 August InHammarby first competed in the Svenska Serienby then the highest league in Swedish football, with key players like goalkeeper Victor Olssondefender Gösta Wihlborg and forward Gustav Björk.
Hammarby qualified to compete in Allsvenskan 's inaugural season in On 3 August said year, Rikard Larsson became Hammarby's first goalscorer in Allsvenskan, and also the first goalscorer in the league's history, in a 1—5 loss against Örgryte IS. During the upcoming years, Hammarby failed to produce any sort of challenge in Swedish football.
Several star players emigrated to the United States[21] transferred to other clubs or opted to instead play ice hockey for Hammarby. Hammarby would, however, suffer from another relegation, finishing last in Allsvenskan in — Back in Division 2, the club finished in the top four for the next six years.
In the —47 seasonthe club finished at the foot of the table, and because of a restructuring of the league system, the club got relegated to Division 4. Hammarby did not return to the second highest league until the —51 season.
In the —55 seasonthe club returned to Allsvenskan, but this time it finished sixth and managed to stay for another season. However, the club underwent yo-yoinghaving been promoted and relegated between Allsvenskan and Division 2 seven times until Nacka Skoglundone of the league's top players who played for Hammarby from toreturned to Hammarby to play from to In the Allsvenskan seasonHammarby had acquired only 3 points in the spring portion of the season, but during the autumn, showed a dramatic improvement.
With star players Kenneth Ohlsson and Ronnie Hellströmand with a crowd that tried out supporter songs for the first time, the club went through the autumn half undefeated and finished in fifth place, its best showing in Allsvenskan.