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Malmö FF

Association football club in Sweden

Malmö FF

Association football club in Sweden

FieldValue
nickname*Di blåe* (The Blue Ones)
*Himmelsblått* (Sky Blue)
groundEleda Stadion, Malmö
capacity22,500
current2025 Malmö FF season
clubnameMalmö FF
imageMalmo FF logo.svg
image_size150px
fullnameMalmö Fotbollförening (Malmö)
short nameMFF
founded
chrtitleChairman
chairmanAnders Pålsson
mgrtitleHead coach
managerMiguel Ángel Ramírez
leagueAllsvenskan
season[2025](2025-allsvenskan)
positionAllsvenskan, 6th of 16
website
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Note

the men's football club

Himmelsblått (Sky Blue)

Malmö Fotbollförening (), commonly known simply as Malmö FF or MFF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö, Scania. They compete in the Allsvenskan, the top division of Swedish football, and play home matches at the Eleda Stadion. Malmö FF is Sweden's most successful football club in terms of domestic trophies won. They hold 24 Swedish championships and 16 Svenska Cupen titles, both of which are national records.

The club formed in 1910 and is affiliated with the Scania Football Association, winning its first national championship in 1944. Their most successful period was the 1970s, during which they won five Swedish championships, four Svenska Cupen titles and became the only side from the Nordic countries to have reached a European Cup or UEFA Champions League final, losing 1–0 to English club Nottingham Forest in the 1979 final. For this feat, Malmö FF was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. Malmö FF also became the only Nordic side to be represented at the Intercontinental Cup, the predecessor of the FIFA Club World Cup, by competing in the tournament's 1979 edition. The club is the leader of the overall Allsvenskan table maratontabellen, meaning that they have won the most matches of any side in Allsvenkan history. They also lead the table in terms of total goals scored.

Malmö FF is nicknamed Di Blåe (Scanian for "The Blues"), and their colours are sky blue and white. This is reflected in their kit: sky blue shirts, white shorts and sky blue socks. They have two long-standing rivalries: a regional derby with fellow Scanian club Helsingborg and a competitive rivalry with IFK Göteborg. Another historical rivalry exists with local Division 2 Södra Götaland side IFK Malmö. The MFF Support are their official fan club.

History

Main article: History of Malmö FF

Early years

Malmö IP, the first home stadium for the club between 1910 and 1957

The club arose from a municipal initiative in 1905 to encourage young people in Malmö to play organised football. One of the youth teams, Bollklubben Idrott, also known simply as BK Idrott, was a predecessor to Malmö FF. BK Idrott joined the newly created football department of IFK Malmö in 1909, but soon left because of issues between the two clubs. On 24 February 1910 the 19 members of BK Idrott founded Malmö FF; the first chairman was Werner Mårtensson.

The club spent its first ten years in local and regional divisions as there was no official national league competition, playing the majority of their matches in the city division called the Malmömästerskapen. They also competed in regional competitions in Scania, and played matches against Danish clubs. In 1916 Malmö FF reached the final of the Scanian regional competition (Distriktsmästerskapen) for the first time, playing against rivals Helsingborgs IF but losing 3–4. The club defeated local rivals IFK Malmö three times during the season, and thus earned the unofficial but much desired title of Malmö's best football club. In 1917 Malmö FF competed for the first time in Svenska Mästerskapet, a cup tournament for the title of Swedish champions, but lost their first match in the second qualifying round 4–1 against IFK Malmö. The club continued to play in the cup until 1922, reaching the quarter-finals in 1920 when they were knocked out by Landskrona BoIS. The cup was eventually discontinued and the title of Swedish champions was given to the winners of the Allsvenskan which was first created for the 1924–25 season.

In 1920 the Swedish Football Association invited Swedish football clubs to compete in official national competitions. Malmö FF earned a place in the Division 2 Sydsvenska Serien. They won this division in the first season, and were promoted to the Svenska Serien Västra, the highest level of competition in Sweden at the time. However, they were relegated after a single season, and found themselves back in Sydsvenska Serien for nearly a decade until they again achieved promotion to Allsvenskan, in 1931.

First years in the Allsvenskan and early achievements

The Malmö FF team of 1943–44

The club achieved mid-table league positions for two seasons, but was relegated in 1934 as a penalty for breaking amateur regulations. The club had paid their players a small sum of money for each game. Although against the rules, this was common at the time; Malmö FF was the only club to show it in the accounting records. In addition to relegation to Division 2, the club suffered bans for the entire board of directors and twenty-six players. The version of events told by Malmö FF and local press suggests that local rival, IFK Malmö, had reported the violation to the Swedish Football Association. This belief has contributed to the longstanding competitive tensions between the clubs.

The club made their way back to the Allsvenskan in 1937 after two seasons in the Division 2. In the same year Eric Persson was elected as chairman after being secretary since 1929, and held the position until 1974. Persson is regarded by club leaders and fans as the most important person in the club's history, as he turned the club professional in the 1970s. Under his leadership the club went from being titleless in 1937 to holding ten Swedish championships by the end of the 1974 season. In 1939 the club reached its highest position yet, third place in the Allsvenskan, nine points behind champions IF Elfsborg. Malmö FF's first Swedish championship came in 1944, when the club won the penultimate game of the season against AIK before 36,000 spectators at the Råsunda. The last game of the season was won 7–0 against Halmstad BK.

The following nine seasons, Malmö FF finished in the top three in the league. The club won the Swedish Championship in 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1953, and were runners-up in 1946, 1948 and 1952. The club also won the Svenska Cupen in 1944, 1946, 1947, 1951 and 1953, and finished as runners-up in 1945. Between 6 May 1949 and 1 June 1951, the team were unbeaten in 49 matches, of which 23 were an unbroken streak of victories.

Young players in the 1960s

The club finished as runners-up in the Allsvenskan twice more, in 1956 and 1957. The following year the club left Malmö IP for Malmö Stadion, which had been built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and was to host the club for 50 years. In 1964 Malmö FF contracted Spanish manager Antonio Durán; this was the first of a series of changes that led to the most successful era in the club's history. Young talents such as Lars Granström and Bo Larsson emerged during the early 1960s and would prove to be crucial ingredients in the success that would come in the 1970s. The club finished second in 1964 but went on to win their sixth Swedish Championship in 1965, when Bo Larsson scored 28 goals to finish as the league's top goal scorer. Malmö FF once again won the Allsvenskan in 1967, after a less successful year in 1966. The club's young players, as well as talents bought in from neighbouring clubs in Scania in 1967, became a team that consistently finished in the top three in the Allsvenskan.

Successful 1970s, European Cup 1979, 1980s and 1990s

After finishing as runners-up in Allsvenskan for the final two years of the 1960s, Malmö FF started the most successful decade of their history with a Swedish Championship in 1970. The club won Allsvenskan in 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975 and 1977 as well as Svenska Cupen in 1976 and 1978. The 1977 Allsvenskan victory qualified the club for the 1978–79 European Cup, and after victories against AS Monaco, Dynamo Kyiv, Wisła Kraków and Austria Wien, Malmö FF reached the final of the competition, which was played at the Olympiastadion in Munich against Nottingham Forest. Trevor Francis, who scored the only goal of the match, won it 1–0 for Nottingham Forest. Nevertheless, the 1979 European Cup run is the biggest success in the history of Malmö FF. The team were given the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal the same year, awarded for the most significant Swedish sporting achievement of the year, for their achievement in the European Cup.

Malmö Stadion, the home stadium for the club between 1958 and 2008

Much of the success during the 1970s was due to new tactics and training methods brought to the club by Englishman Bob Houghton, who managed the club between 1974 and 1980. Eric Persson was succeeded as chairman in 1974 by Hans Cavalli-Björkman. After the team performed respectably under managers Keith Blunt and Tord Grip in the early 1980s, Roy Hodgson took over in 1985. Roy Hodgson led Malmö FF to two Swedish Championships in 1986 and 1988, and the club won Allsvenskan five years in a row between 1985 and 1989. At the time, the championship was decided by play-offs between the best teams after the end of the regular season; this arrangement was in place from 1982 until 1992. The club reached the play-off final four times between 1986 and 1989 but only managed to win the final twice. Apart from Allsvenskan and Swedish Championships, Malmö FF won Svenska Cupen in 1984, 1986 and 1989.

Other than finishing as runners-up in Allsvenskan in 1996, the team did not excel in the 1990s, as the club failed to win Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen throughout the entire decade. The 1990s ended with relegation from Allsvenskan in 1999. Hans Cavalli-Björkman was succeeded as chairman by Bengt Madsen in 1999, and former player Hasse Borg was contracted as Director of Sport. These operational changes, as well as the emergence of young talent Zlatan Ibrahimović, led to the return to Allsvenskan in 2001. Ibrahimović rose to fame and became an important player in Malmö FF's campaign to return to the top league. He was later sold to Ajax in 2001, before playing for several European clubs in Italy's Serie A, FC Barcelona in Spain's La Liga, Paris Saint-Germain in France's Ligue 1, Manchester United F.C. in England's Premier League, LA Galaxy in the MLS, and AC Milan again until his retirement in 2023.

Start of the 2000s to the present

Eleda Stadion

The return to Allsvenskan was the start of the successful early 2000s, under the management of Tom Prahl, when the club finished in the top three times in a row. In 2004, it won Allsvenskan, the club's fifteenth Swedish Championship. In 2005, the club reached the last qualifying round for the UEFA Champions League but were defeated by FC Thun. Successful sponsor work and player sales also made Malmö FF the richest club in Sweden. This position was further cemented by the successive Champions League group stage appearances the two following years. Malmö FF moved from Malmö Stadion to Eleda Stadion in 2009, a stadium built entirely for football and located next to the old one.

In 2009, Madsen announced that he would step down as chairman, and was replaced by Håkan Jeppsson early the following year. In 2010, the club marked their 100th anniversary with many celebratory events at the beginning of the season. On the day of the club's 100th anniversary in 2010, the Swedish football magazine Offside declared Malmö FF to be the greatest football club in Swedish history. The season became a great success as the club won Allsvenskan for the nineteenth time and became Swedish champions for the sixteenth time. Unlike in 2004, these successes were achieved without any major transfers before the season, and with a squad consisting mostly of younger players.

In October 2013, Malmö FF won their seventeenth Swedish championship and 20th Allsvenskan title in the penultimate round of the league away from home. Similar to 2010, the title was the result of a young squad. The average age of the squad, 23.8 years, was the youngest team to become champions since the beginning of the 21st century. The following year Malmö FF qualified for the group stage of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League by beating Ventspils, Sparta Prague and Red Bull Salzburg in the qualifying rounds. This was the first time the club qualified for the competition proper since the re-branding from the European Cup in the 1992–93 season and the first time since the 2000–01 season that a Swedish club qualified. In the following months Malmö FF defended their league title, winning their eighteenth Swedish championship and 21st Allsvenskan title. This was the first time a club defended the Allsvenskan title since the 2003 season.

The 2020s have brought renewed national success to the club, winning the Allsvenskan in 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024, reaching a total of 27 league titles, while reaching the Champions League group stage in the 2021–22 edition and reaching the knockout stages of the UEFA Europa League in 2019–20, under the management of Jon Dahl Tomasson and Henrik Rydström.

Malmö FF is a dominant force in Sweden. As of the end of the 2021 Allsvenskan season, the club are the leaders of the overall Allsvenskan table maratontabellen. Malmö FF are also the record holders for the total number of Swedish championships, Allsvenskan titles and Svenska Cupen titles.

Colours and crest

Because of the club colours, sky blue and white, the club is often known by the nicknames Di blåe (Scanian: The Blues) and Himmelsblått (The Sky Blues). The home kit is sky-blue shirts, white shorts, and sky-blue socks. The away strip is black. Various alternative kits have been used for European play such as an all-white kit introduced in the 1950s, and re-used for the 2011 and 2012 seasons, and all-black kits with sky-blue and golden trimmings were used for the European campaigns in 2005 and 2013.

Kit evolution

The club colours have not always been sky blue. The predecessor club BK Idrott wore blue and white striped shirts and white shorts, and this kit was still used for the first six months of 1910 after Malmö FF was founded. This was later changed to red and white striped shirts and black shorts to show that Malmö FF was a new, independent club. This colour combination has on occasion been used in modern times as the away kit. The present sky-blue kit was introduced in 1920. Since 2010 a small Scanian flag is featured on the back of the shirt just below the neck.

Crest evolution

File:Malmo FF Original Crest from 1910.gif| File:Malmö FF Crest from 1920.gif| File:Malmö FF's 3rd Crest.gif| File:Malmo FF logo.svg|

The crest of Malmö FF consists of a shield with two vertical sky-blue fields on the sides, and one vertical white field in the middle. Underneath the shield is "Malmö FF" spelled out in sky-blue letters with a sky-blue star under the text. In the top area of the shield is a white horizontal field over the three vertical fields. The abbreviation of the club name "MFF" is spelled out with sky-blue letters in this field. On top of the shield are five tower-like extensions of the white field. The present shield crest made its debut on the shirt in the 1940s. There were other crests before this but they were never featured on the shirt. While the first crest was black and white, the second crest was red and white in accordance with the club's main colours between 1910 and 1920.

For the 100th anniversary of the club in 2010, the years 1910 and 2010 were featured on each side of the shield on a sky-blue ribbon behind the shield.

Malmö FF is the only Swedish club to wear two stars above its crest, representing at least 20 domestic championship titles. The stars are only featured on match shirts and are not part of the club's crest.

Supporters

Malmö FF has several fan clubs, of which the largest is the official fan club MFF Support, founded in 1992. MFF Support describes itself as "a non-profit and non-political organization working against violence and racism". The chairman of MFF Support is Thelma Ernst.

There are also several smaller independent supporter groups. The most prominent of these is Supras Malmö, which was founded in 2003 by a coalition of smaller ultras groups and devoted fans. The name "Supras" is derived from the words supporters and ultras – the latter indicating that the group is inspired by a fan culture with roots in southern Europe. Supras Malmö is the most visible group in the main supporter stand at Eleda Stadion, marking its presence with banners, flags and choreography. Another group with similar goals is Rex Scania. MFF Tifosi 96 (MT96) is a network of supporters creating tifos for special occasions and important games. Malmösystrar (Sisters of Malmö) is the largest female supporter faction in Europe with over 200 members.

Malmö FF supporters maintains a friendship with the supporters of Hertha BSC.

Rivalries

Main article: IFK Göteborg–Malmö FF rivalry{{!}}Mesta Mästarmötet, Helsingborgs IF–Malmö FF rivalry{{!}}Skånederby, IFK Malmö–Malmö FF rivalry{{!}}Malmö derby

Because of geographical proximity, minor rivalries exist with Trelleborgs FF and Landskrona BoIS, which are both also located in Scania. The main rivals of the club are Helsingborgs IF, IFK Göteborg and IFK Malmö. The rivalry between Malmö FF and Helsingborgs IF has existed since Malmö FF were promoted up to Allsvenskan in the 1930s, and is primarily geographic, since both teams are from Scania in southern Sweden. The rivalry with IFK Göteborg relates more to title clashes; the two are the most successful clubs in Swedish football history and the only two to have appeared in European cup finals, IFK Göteborg in the UEFA Cup in 1982 and 1987 and Malmö FF in the European Cup in 1979.

During the 2000s, a rivalry between Malmö FF and FC Copenhagen has grown stronger. The rivalry is mainly about geographical proximity and the fact that the teams have played against each other more frequently. During a match in the Royal League in 2005 at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, the meeting was given greater significance than before, this after Danish police, for unclear reasons, handed out blows with batons to Malmö supporters in the stands.

The rivalry with IFK Malmö is both geographical and historical. The two clubs come from the same city and used to play at the same stadium in the early 20th century. The supposed actions of board members of IFK Malmö in 1933, revealing Malmö FF's breaches of amateur football rules to the Swedish Football Association, further contribute to the competitive tensions between the two clubs. IFK Malmö have not played in Allsvenskan since 1962; thus matches between the two sides are rare.

Average attendances

! width="80" |High ! width="80" |Low ! width="80" |Average ! width="80" |Occupancy ! width="80" |Median |- |2010 |227,904 |24,148 |9,346 |**15,194 ** |63.3%

14,149
2011
185,825
23,612
6,715
**12,388 **
51.6%
11,333
-
2012
221,981
23,638
10,088
**14,799 **
61.7%
14,583
-
2013
241,395
23,758
9,837
**16,093 **
67.1%
15,560
-
2014
211,357
20,310
9,336
**14,090 **
58.7%
13,382
-
2015
259,973
22,337
12,862
**17,332 **
77.0%
16,215
-
2016
267,622
21,719
13,747
**17,841 **
79.3%
17,526
-
2017
273,807
21,354
14,482
**18,254 **
81.1%
18,830
-
2018
223,822
20,072
11,237
**14,921 **
66.3%
14,745
-
2019
248,496
21,812
11,521
**16,566 **
73.6%
16,267
-
2020
0
0
0
** 0 **
0%
0
-
2021
108,115
21,067
0
** 7,208 **
32.0%
5,113
-
2022
261,156
20,231
13,312
** 17,410 **
77.4%
17,052
-
2023
301,126
21,612
17,116
** 20,075 **
89.2%
20,231
-
2024
304,320
21,576
19,173
** 20,288 **
90.2%
20,118
-
2025
279,938
21,269
15,226
** 18,662 **
82.9%
18,676
}
SeasonCompetitionCapacityMatchesTotalHighLowAverage
[2011–12](2011-12-uefa-champions-league-qualifying-phase-and-play-off-round)UEFA Champions League20,500346,91619,08412,50115,639
[2011–12](2011-12-uefa-europa-league-group-stage)UEFA Europa League326,90010,8027,6328,967
[2013–14](2013-14-uefa-europa-league-qualifying-phase-and-play-off-round)UEFA Europa League325,85511,5385,6898,618
[2014–15](2014-15-uefa-champions-league)UEFA Champions League6110,01420,5008,83118,336
[2015–16](2015-16-uefa-champions-league)UEFA Champions League6113,95820,50012,43618,993
[2017–18](2017-18-uefa-champions-league-qualifying-phase-and-play-off-round)UEFA Champions League120,05820,05820,05820,058
[2018–19](2018-19-uefa-champions-league-qualifying-phase-and-play-off-round)UEFA Champions League345,98518,15310,62315,328
[2018–19](2018-19-uefa-europa-league)UEFA Europa League582,69220,31211,48716,538
[2019–20](2019-20-uefa-europa-league)UEFA Europa League8125,47120,5008,66715,684
[2020–21](2020-21-uefa-europa-league)UEFA Europa League30000
[2021–22](2021-22-uefa-champions-league)UEFA Champions League761,52219,5514,0128,789
[2022–23](2022-23-uefa-champions-league)UEFA Champions League229,06417,23411,83014,532
[2022–23](2022-23-uefa-europa-league)UEFA Europa League564,02916,05710,91212,806
[2024–25](2024-25-uefa-champions-league)UEFA Champions League357,67920,58918,43219,226

Stadia

Malmö FF's first stadium was Malmö IP, which was shared with arch-rivals IFK Malmö. The team played here from the founding of the club in 1910, until 1958. The stadium still exists today, albeit with lower capacity, and is now used by women's team FC Rosengård, who were previously the women's section of Malmö FF. Capacity in 2012 is 7,600, but attendances were usually much higher when Malmö FF played there. For the last season in 1957, the average attendance was 15,500. The club's record attendance at Malmö IP is 22,436 against Helsingborgs IF on 1 June 1956. The stadium is still considered a key part of the club's history, as it was here that the club were founded, played their first 47 seasons, and won five Swedish championships.

A new stadium was constructed in Malmö after Sweden was awarded the 1958 FIFA World Cup – this saw the birth of Malmö Stadion. Malmö FF played their first season at the stadium in 1958. The first time the club won the Swedish championship at the stadium was in 1965. An upper tier was added to the stadium in 1992. The club enjoyed the most successful era of their history at this stadium, winning ten out of twenty Swedish championships while based there. The stadium originally had a capacity of 30,000 but this was lowered to 27,500 due to changes in safety regulations. The club's record attendance at the stadium was 29,328 against Helsingborgs IF on 24 September 1967.

Following the 2004 victory in Allsvenskan, plans were made to construct a new stadium. In July 2005, Malmö FF announced that work was to begin on Eleda Stadion, designed for 18,000 seated spectators and 6,000 standing. The stadium can also accommodate 21,000 as an all-seater for international and European games in which terracing is not allowed. Construction started in 2007 and was finished in 2009. The new stadium is located next to Malmö Stadion. Although there was still small-scale construction going on around the stadium at the time, the stadium was inaugurated on 13 April 2009 with the first home game of the 2009 season against Örgryte IS; Malmö FF's Labinot Harbuzi scored the inaugural goal in the 61st minute. The first Swedish championship won at the stadium occurred in 2010, when the club beat Mjällby AIF on 7 November in the final game of the season 2–0. Attendance at this game set the stadium record of 24,148. Stadion is a UEFA category 4 rated stadium.

European record

Main article: Malmö FF in European football

Malmö FF has a rich European legacy with participation in UEFA competitions since 1964. The club's best European performance was in the 1978–79 season, when they reached the final of the UEFA Champions League (then European Champion Clubs' Cup), where they were beaten 0–1 by English Champions Nottingham Forest. This makes Malmö FF the only Nordic club to have reached this far in the European Cup or Champions League. Malmö FF is also the only Nordic club to have been represented at the Intercontinental Cup (succeeded by FIFA Club World Cup) in which they competed for the 1979 title. Malmö FF is one of the four Swedish clubs to have participated in the UEFA Champions League group stages, along with IFK Göteborg, AIK, and Helsingborg.

Overall record by competition

TournamentSPldWDLGFGAGD**Total**45197704383247273
1995322340103148−45
178034153112297+25
5229763518
48017423
1200214
1200213

UEFA Coefficient

Correct as of 14 June 2024. The table shows the position of Malmö FF (highlighted), based on their UEFA coefficient club ranking for 2024, and the four clubs which are closest to Malmö FF's position (the two clubs with the higher coefficient and the two with the lower coefficient).

20242023Mvmt.Club2019–202020–212021–222022–232023–242024 Coeff.868319.0008710318.500876318.5008910218.0566013418.000
[[File:RedDownArrow.svg15x15px]] −3POL Lech Poznań3.0014.002.00
[[File:Green-Up-Arrow.svg15x15px]] +16UKR Zorya Luhansk2.504.005.002.005.00
[[File:RedDownArrow.svg15x15px]] −24Sweden **Malmö FF**8.002.505.001.50
[[File:Green-Up-Arrow.svg15x15px]] +13ITA Torino FC2.50
[[File:Green-Up-Arrow.svg15x15px]] +74POL Legia Warsaw2.502.504.009.00

Ownership and finances

Malmö FF made the transition from an amateur club to fully professional in the late 1970s under the leadership of club chairman Eric Persson. The club is an open member association, and the annual general meeting is the highest policy-making body where each member has one vote, therefore no shares are issued. The meeting approves the accounts, votes to elect the chairman and the board, and decides on incoming motions. During the successful 2010's era Håkan Jeppsson was the chairman after taking over after Bengt Madsen in 2010, prior to his sudden death in 2018. The club's legal status means that any interest claims are made to the club and not to the board of directors or club members. Daily operations are run by a managing director who liaises with the chairman.

With an equity of 497 million SEK the club is the richest football club in Sweden as of 2019. The turnover for 2018 was 343 million SEK. The highest transfer fee received by Malmö FF for a player was 86.2 million SEK (€8.7 million at that time) for Zlatan Ibrahimović who was sold to Ajax in 2001. At the time, this was the highest transfer fee ever paid to a Swedish football club.

The main sponsors of Malmö FF are Volkswagen, Elitfönster AB, Intersport, Imtech, JMS Mediasystem, Mercedes-Benz, SOVA and Svenska Spel. The club also had a naming rights deal with Swedbank regarding the name of Eleda Stadion between 2007 and 2017 when it was called Swedbank Stadion.

Media coverage

Malmö FF have been the subject of several films. Some examples are Swedish football documentaries Blådårar 1 and Blådårar 2, which portray the club from both supporter and player perspectives during the 1997 and 2000 seasons. Blådårar 1 is set in 1997, when the club finished third in Allsvenskan. The film focuses on devoted fan Lasse, player Anders Andersson, former chairman Hans Cavalli-Björkman and other individuals. Blådårar 2 is set in 2000, the year after the club had been relegated to Superettan, and follows the team as they fight for Malmö FF's return to Allsvenskan. The second film continues to follow Lasse, but also has a significant focus on Zlatan Ibrahimović, his progress and how he was eventually sold to AFC Ajax during the 2001 season.

The club have also been featured in Mitt Hjärtas Malmö, a series of documentaries covering the history of Malmö. Clips used included match footage from the 1940s (Volume 7), and match footage from the 1979 European Cup Final in Munich from a fan's perspective (Volume 8). Volume 9 of the series is devoted entirely to coverage of the club's 100th anniversary in 2010.

In the 2005 Swedish drama movie Om Sara, actor Alexander Skarsgård plays the fictional football star Kalle Öberg, who plays for Malmö FF. Finally, a recurring sketch in the second season of the comedy sketch show Hipphipp! involved a group of Malmö FF fans singing and chanting while performing everyday tasks, such as shopping or operating an ATM.

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Retired numbers

12 – MFF Support

Notable players

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List criteria:

  • player has made more than 500 appearances overall for the club, or
  • player has won Guldbollen, an official UEFA or FIFA award, or
  • player has been picked as one of the 11 best players in the official hall of fame Sydsvenskan team that was selected by the newspapers readers for the club's 100th anniversary in 2010.
NameNationalityMalmö FF
careerTotal
appearancesTotal
goalsGuldbollenUEFA/FIFA AwardSydsvenskan team
Sweden1934–195360041950
Sweden1934–19515013
Sweden1952–19655151031962
Sweden1957–1968
19704141611967
Sweden1962–1966
1969–19795462891965
1973Yes
Sweden1963–197962616Yes
Sweden1968–1983624491977Yes
Sweden1968–1974
1977–198356413
Sweden1971–1980
1984–198859111979Yes
Sweden1976–198747346Yes
Sweden1975–198856828
Sweden1977–1982
1993–1995132361986Yes
Sweden1980–199557439
Sweden1984–20015881
Sweden1985–1987
1988–1989160301989Yes
Sweden1987–1991176831993Yes
Sweden1987–199110371999Yes
Sweden1989–1992
2004–2005184241995
2001UEFA Team of the Year
2001Yes
Sweden1999–200169162005
2007–2016UEFA Team of the Year
2007
2009
2013
2014
FIFPro World XI
2013
FIFA Puskás Award
2013Yes
Finland2005–2007186UEFA Jubilee Awards
Sweden2013–201457192021

Management

Organisation

As of 10 January 2026

NameRole
SWE Anders PålssonPresident
SWE Jimmy RosengrenChief executive officer
SWE Pontus HanssonSecretary
SWE Daniel AnderssonHead of football
vacantSporting director
SWE Anne-Maj JanssonSporting assistant
SWE Jeffrey AubynnHead of scouting
ARG Jaime SeguraTechnical manager
SWE Alf WesterbergSporting co-ordinator
SWE Per ÅgrenSporting director (youth)
DEN Lars HallengreenChief scout (youth)

Technical staff

As of 10 January 2026

NameRole
SPA Miguel Ángel RamírezHead coach
SPA Endika GabiñaAssistant coaches
SWE Guillermo Molins
CHI Mario Chavez
SWE Ola ToivonenLoan manager
ENG Mark Piros-ReadFitness coaches
ENG Matt Umney
ENG Aidan Spurling
SWE Zlatan AzinovicGoalkeeping coach
SWE Jesper RobertssonPhysiotherapists
SWE Roem Muftee
SWE Johan Ahlberg
SWE Igor ZindovicClub doctor
SWE Andreas Omidfar
SWE Sebastian LeytonClub masseur
SWE David BjörkmanNaprapat
SWE Greger AndrijevskiNutritionist
SWE Sverker FryklundPsychologist
SWE Daniel MöllerEquipment manager

Notable coaches

This is a list of coaches who have won one or more titles at the club

NameYearsAllsvenskanSvenska Cupen
Sweden Sven Nilsson1944
1945–1946
1950[1943–44](1943-44-allsvenskan)
[1949–50](1949-50-allsvenskan)[1944](1944-45-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1944)
[1946](1946-47-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1946)
Hungary Kálmán Konrád1947–1949[1948–49](1948-49-allsvenskan)[1947](1947-48-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1947)
Wales Bert Turner1951–1954[1950–51](1950-51-allsvenskan)
[1952–53](1952-53-allsvenskan)[1951](1951-52-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1951)
[1953](1953-54-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1953)
Spain Antonio Durán1964–1971[1965](1965-allsvenskan)
[1967](1967-allsvenskan)
[1970](1970-allsvenskan)
[1971](1971-allsvenskan)1967
Sweden Karl-Erik Hult1972–1973[1972–73](1973-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1972-73)
England Bob Houghton1974–1980
1990–1992[1974](1974-allsvenskan)
[1975](1975-allsvenskan)
[1977](1977-allsvenskan)[1973–74](1974-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1973-74)
[1974–75](1975-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1974-75)
[1977–78](1978-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1977-78)
[1979–80](1980-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1979-80)
Sweden Tord Grip1983–1984[1983–84](1984-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1983-84)
England Roy Hodgson1985–1989[1985](1985-allsvenskan)
[1986](1986-allsvenskan)
[1987](1987-allsvenskan)
[1988](1988-allsvenskan)
[1989](1989-allsvenskan)[1985–86](1986-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1985-86)
[1988–89](1989-in-swedish-football-svenska-cupen-1988-89)
Sweden Tom Prahl2002–2005[2004](2004-allsvenskan)
Sweden Roland Nilsson2008–2011[2010](2010-allsvenskan)
Sweden Rikard Norling2011–2013[2013](2013-allsvenskan)
Norway Åge Hareide2014–2015[2014](2014-allsvenskan)
Denmark Allan Kuhn2016[2016](2016-allsvenskan)
Sweden Magnus Pehrsson2017–2018[2017](2017-allsvenskan)
Denmark Jon Dahl Tomasson2020–2021[2020](2020-allsvenskan)
[2021](2021-allsvenskan)
SER Miloš Milojević2022[2021–22](2021-22-svenska-cupen)
Sweden Henrik Rydström2023–2025[2023](2023-allsvenskan)
[2024](2024-allsvenskan)[2023–24](2023-24-svenska-cupen)

Statistics

Main article: List of Malmö FF records and statistics, List of Malmö FF seasons

Malmö FF have played 86 seasons in Allsvenskan. The only clubs to have played more seasons are AIK with 93 and IFK Göteborg with 89 (2021). The club are also the leaders of the all-time Allsvenskan table since the end of the 2012 season. They are the only Nordic club to have played a European Cup final, present day UEFA Champions League, having reached the 1979 European Cup Final. Malmö FF is also the only Nordic club to have been represented at the Intercontinental Cup (succeeded by FIFA Club World Cup) in which they competed for the 1979 title.

Honours

Malmö FF have won domestic honours. The club currently holds the records for most Swedish championships, Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen titles. The club's most recent honour was in 2023 when they won Allsvenskan. The club first played in Europe for the 1964–65 European season in the European Cup, and most recently in the 2021–22 European season in the group stage for the UEFA Champions League. Including the qualification stages, they have participated in the European Cup and UEFA Champions League eighteen times and in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League seventeen times. The club have also played in other now defunct European competitions such as the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Intertoto Cup.

Domestic

The Malmö FF team of 1948–49
  • Swedish Champions
    • Winners (24): 1943–44, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1986, 1988, 2004, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024

League

Cups

European

  • European Cup (Champions League)

Worldwide

  • Intercontinental Cup
    • Runners-up (1): 1979

Doubles

  • Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen
    • Winners (9): 1943–44, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1967, 1974, 1975, 1986, 1989, 2024

Footnotes

References

General

Specific

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