Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at PlatinumCars Arena. The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are white and blue. Formed on 29 May 1897, the club have won thirteen national championship titles and six national cup titles.
The club plays in the highest Swedish tier, Allsvenskan, which they first won in 1943. IFK Norrköping were most successful during the 1940s, when they won five Swedish championships and two Svenska Cupen titles under the Hungarian coach Lajos Czeizler and with players like Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm.
IFK Norrköping won the 2015 Allsvenskan, their first win since 1989, which also gave them a spot in the second qualification round of 2016–17 UEFA Champions League.
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History
IFK Norrköping won the first division 11 times in 20 years, the last in 1963. It won for its 12th time in 1989.
On 31 October 2015, IFK Norrköping won its 13th championship title after defeating the defending champions Malmö FF with 2–0 away in Swedbank Stadion in Malmö in the last round of 2015 Allsvenskan. On 8 November IFK Norrköping won supercupen against Swedish cup winners IFK Göteborg. The result was 3–0.
Players
First-team squad
As of 6 October 2026
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Retired numbers
12 – Fans of the club
Winners of Guldbollen
1947: Gunnar Nordahl
1949: Knut Nordahl
1953: Bengt "Julle" Gustavsson
1957: Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson
1960: Torbjörn Jonsson
1961: Bengt "Zamora" Nyholm
1963: Harry Bild
1966: Ove Kindvall
1968: Björn Nordqvist
1990: Tomas Brolin
1992: Jan Eriksson
League top scorers
Gunnar Nordahl 1944–45 (27 goals), 1945–46 (25 goals) and 1947–48 (18 goals)
Harry Bild 1956–57 (19 goals)
Henry "Putte" Källgren 1957–58 (27 goals) (shared with Bertil Johansson, IFK Göteborg)
Ove Kindvall 1966 (20 goals)
Jan Hellström 1989 (16 goals)
Niclas Kindvall 1994 (23 goals)
Imad Khalili 2013 (15 goals) (eight goals scored for Helsingborgs IF)
Emir Kujović 2015 (21 goals)
Kalle Holmberg 2017 (14 goals) (shared with Magnus Eriksson, Djurgårdens IF)
Christoffer Nyman 2020 (18 goals)
Samuel Adegbenro 2021 (17 goals)
Stefan Pettersson 1983 (17 goals)
Bruno Santos 2005 (17 goals)
Garðar Gunnlaugsson 2007 (18 goals)
Management
Technical staff
As of 12 December 2025
Honours
League
Swedish Champions
Winners (13): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1989, 2015
Allsvenskan:
Winners (12): 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1960, 1962, 1963, 2015
Runners-up (10): 1952–53, 1957–58, 1959, 1961, 1966, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2018
Superettan:
Winners (1): 2007
Runners-up (1): 2010
Mästerskapsserien:
Runners-up (2): 1991, 1992
Cups
Svenska Cupen:
Winners (6): 1943, 1945, 1968–69, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1993–94
Runners-up (5): 1944, 1953, 1967, 1971–72, 2016–17
Svenska Supercupen:
Winners (1): 2015
Records
Most played games (Allsvenskan or Division I):
Christoffer Nyman, 322 games (2011–2016, 2019-)
Most league goals (Allsvenskan or Division I):
Henry "Putte" Källgren, 126 goals (1951–60)
Most spectators:
32 234 against Malmö FF, 7 June 1956
Biggest victory (Allsvenskan or Division I):
11–1 against Djurgårdens IF, 14 October 1945.
Biggest defeat (Allsvenskan or Division I):
0 – 11 against Örgryte IS, 6 April 1928 and Helsingborgs IF, 22 September 1929
Managerial history
List of IFK Norrköping managers (1905–present)
Affiliate clubs
IF Sylvia
Husqvarna FF
Western United FC
Other sections
IFK Norrköping also maintains departments for women's football, set up in 2009, orienteering, bowling and bandy. The bandy team played in Sweden's highest division in 1937.
Part of the club was also an ice hockey team which played in the seasons 1950/51 and 1955/56 in the highest Swedish division. The ice hockey teams of IFK and local rivals IK Sleipner were joined in 1967 to form IF IFK/IKS, known from 1973 forward as IK Vita Hästen ("Ice Hockey Club White Horse") which evolved into today's HC Vita Hästen.