Original Adidas training shirt Ängelholms FF
Adidas training shirt Ängelholms FF
Size: 164 (unisex)
Condition: 9.5/10 (used)
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Ängelholms FF is a Swedish football club from Ängelholm. The club was founded in 1905 as Ängelholms IF. After a merger with Skörpinge GIF in 1976, the club continued under its current name. Home games are played at the Ängelholms IP, which can accommodate 5,000 spectators.
Ängelholms IF was most successful in the 1930s. In Division 2 (the then second division) it played against nearby superpowers such as Malmö FF, Helsingborgs IF and Halmstads BK.
Beginning in the late 1960s, Skörpinge GIF's standard squad began to play at the same level as Ängelholm's IF, creating serious competition. There would only be a professional football association in the city if the two clubs merged. That happened in 1976, the name was then changed to the current one.
In 2007, the club was promoted for the second time to the Superettan, the current second division. As a PhD student, the club finished fifth in the final ranking. Until then the highest final ranking ever for Ängelholms FF.
In 2011, the ÄFF surprised everyone by participating until the last match day for a direct ticket to the Allsvenskan. On the last day of play, however, the yellow-blacks lost in the very last seconds to Hammarby IF, which so maintained in the Superettan. Due to the loss, no direct promotion ticket was won for Ängelholm, but jump-off matches against Syrianska FC, the second chance from the highest division, followed. In Ängelholm, the club won 2-1, but an own goal by David Bennhage in the very last minute in Södertälje (3-1) ensured that Ängelholm would remain active in the Superettan.
In the years that followed, ÄFF was able to avoid bankruptcy on a regular basis and the license for the Superettan could only just be obtained each time. A problem for the license was mainly the stadium that did not comply with the regulations. In 2016, the blue-yellows were still relegated to the Ettan. It has not come out in professional football since then.