Dalkurd FF
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Dalkurd Fotbollsförening, commonly known as Dalkurd FF or simply Dalkurd (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈdɑ̂ːlkɵrd]) is a Swedish professional football club based in Uppsala. The club competes in Division 2, the fourth tier of football in the country. On 26 September 2004, the club was originally founded by members of the Kurdish diaspora in Borlänge, Dalarna.
On 24 November 2017, Dalkurd chose to move their senior team operations to Uppsala, some 140 kilometers southeast of Borlänge, where they will play at the new ground Nya Studenternas IP following its opening in 2020. In the 2018 season, however, Dalkurd played their home games at Gavlevallen in Gävle, some 110 kilometers north of Uppsala (and roughly 110 kilometers east of Borlänge). Dalkurd FF holds the record for the lowest average attendances in the history of both Allsvenskan and Superettan, the two highest Swedish leagues. Dalkurd FF is affiliated with Upplands Fotbollförbund.
History
The club was formed in Borlänge in 2004 by a group of Kurds. It started as a social project to contribute to the youth of Borlänge by offering activities for them. IK Brage helped financing the project. In the first season the squad consisted of an average age of 17 years. Besides contributing to the youngsters, the chairman, Ramazan Kizil, had high expectations of the football players and an ultimate goal: he wanted to take Dalkurd to the professional levels of the Swedish league. Dalkurd won every division they participated in from their very first season in 2005 to 2009. Owing to this uncommon success they got a lot of media attention, both in Sweden and abroad.
The club narrowly avoided catastrophe when travelling home from Spain in March 2015. The club had initially intended to fly from Barcelona to Düsseldorf on Germanwings Flight 9525, but changed its booking at the last minute when they decided the layover in Germany would be too long. Flight 4U 9525 crashed into the French Alps on 24 March, killing everyone on board.
Season to season
* League restructuring in 2006 resulted in a new tier being created at Tier 3 and subsequent divisions dropping a level. |
Dalkurd FF je známy svojou silnou komunitnou podporou a aktívnym zapojením do sociálnych otázok. Klub sa zasadzuje za začlenenie a porozumenie medzi rôznymi kultúrami a jeho domáce zápasy sú často oslavou kurdskej kultúry.
Na ihrisku je Dalkurd FF známy svojím útočným štýlom hry a dôrazom na kolektívnu hru. Klub má v zostave niekoľko talentovaných hráčov, vrátane útočníka Adama Bergmark Wiberga a stredopoliara Adama Ben Lamin.
V ostatných rokoch Dalkurd FF dosiahol značný úspech a v roku 2016 postúpil do švédskej Allsvenskan, najvyššej švédskej ligy. Klub však v Allsvenskan vydržal len jednu sezónu a v roku 2017 zostúpil do Superettan.
Napriek zostupu zostáva Dalkurd FF populárnym a podporovaným klubom a jeho fanúšikovia budú dúfať, že sa klub čoskoro vráti do Allsvenskan.