Kalmar FF
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| Full name | Kalmar Fotbollsförening |
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| Nickname(s) | Röda bröder (Red brothers) |
| Short name | KFF |
| Founded | 15 June 1910 as IF Göta |
| Ground | Guldfågeln Arena, Kalmar |
| Capacity | 12,000 |
| Chairman | Mattias Rosenlund |
| Head coach | Peter Swärdh |
| League | Allsvenskan |
| 2016 | Allsvenskan, 6th |
| Website | Club home page |
Kalmar Fotbollsförening, also known simply as Kalmar FF, Kalmar or (especially locally) KFF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Kalmar. The club is affiliated to Smålands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Guldfågeln Arena. Formed on 10 January 1910 as IF Göta, the club have won one national championship title (2008) and three national cup titles (1981, 1987 & 2007). The club is currently playing in Allsvenskan, where the season lasts from April to November. Kalmar FF's local rivals are Kalmar AIK and Östers IF.
On 15 June 1910, the club IF Göta was created, however they were not allowed to enter the Riksidrottsförbundet due to a conflict regarding the name. The name was already taken by Stockholm's-Göta and Karlstads-Göta. Later in 1912 the club changed its name to IF Gothia and was then accepted by Riksidrottsförbundet.
In 1918 Fredriksskans was opened and at the same time the where a major conference in Kalmar about the high number of clubs in the town, this led to the merging of IF Gothia and Kamraterna to Kalmar Idrotts Sällskap and Kalmar IK merged with Falken to form Kalmar AIK. In 1927 Kalmar Idrotts Sällskap changed its name to Kalmar FF.
In 1927–1928 they qualified for the local league in the Swedish league system, IFK Oskarshamn won the league and was moved up to the Southswedish league, covering both Småland and Skåne, however IFK Oskarshamn renounce its position and it was given to Kalmar FF, this gave rise to complaint from the clubs in Skåne since there were no good train connections to Kalmar at that time, however SJ solved it. In their first game they defeated KIS Malmö FF with 6–0.
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