Huddinge IK
Founded	1950
Home ice	Björkängshallen
Based in	Huddinge Huddinge Municipality Huddinge Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Huddinge, which is a part of Stockholm urban area.The municipality is the second most populated in Stockholm County.... , Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
Colours	Red, white, blue
League	Division 1

Huddinge IK is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 ice hockey

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 team from Huddinge

Huddinge Municipality

Huddinge Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Huddinge, which is a part of Stockholm urban area.The municipality is the second most populated in Stockholm County....

, a southern suburb of Stockholm

Stockholm

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. The team is currently playing in the third highest league in Sweden, Division 1

Swedish Division 1 (ice hockey)

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. In the middle of the 1990s a girls´ and ladies´ section in floorball

Floorball

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 was founded, from which the senior ladies´ team advanced in 2008 to the highest level league, Elitserien

Elitserien (ladies floorball)

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Founded: 1950

Home arena: Björkängshallen (capacity 2,505)

Uniform colors: Red, white, blue

Swedish Championships won: 0

History

Originally started up as an ice hockey section of Huddinge IF

Huddinge IF

Huddinge IF is a Swedish football club located in Huddinge, a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden.-Background:Huddinge Idrottsförening is the municipality's oldest sports club. Inspired by the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912, Otto Hellsten founded the club in the same year...

 for the 1946/47 season, refounded as an own club on January 8, 1950. The team advanced to the second level league in 1966, and in seasons 1975/76-78/79, 81/82-96/97 and 2002/03 (21 seasons) the club has participated in the qualifications for the Elitserien

Elitserien

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, never making it all the way. No other club, which has never made it all the way, has done so more times than Huddinge. A qualification play off game in 1989 versus Timrå IK

Timrå IK

Timrå IK is a Swedish ice hockey team from Timrå, who currently plays in the top division, Elitserien. Seasons in the top division include 1956–57 to 1975–76, 1977–78, 1981–82, and 2000–01 until present.-History:...

 was decided by a winning goal for Timrå 1:14 into the third overtime period, and was by then the longest Swedish hockey game ever played. The game is still among the top 10 longest games.

The last time the team was close to advancing, in the 1992-93 season, they moved their home game versus neighbors AIK to the Globe Arena and reached their spectator record of 12,487, the sixth largest record for any Swedish club (the five larger ones being Frölunda HC - 31,144, Djurgårdens IF - 18,070, AIK - 17,098, Färjestads BK - 15,274 and Malmö Redhawks - 13.247). They won the game (5-3). The away game versus AIK, about a month later, was tied 3-3, and had a spectator number of 13,124. For 15 years, these two games between AIK and Huddinge in 1993 were the two Swedish national games outside of the top division and the Swedish Championship competitions with the largest spectator numbers, but in November 2008 that record was lost to IF Malmö Redhawks.

In the 1999/2000 and 2004/05 seasons, the team has been relegated to the present third level league, division 1, but both times there has been an instant comeback. In the 2007/08 season the team had to play a relegation league to remain in HockeyAllsvenskan and didn't make it, but was re-promoted in the middle of the summer on the relegation of Nyköpings Hockey

Nyköpings Hockey

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. In the 2008/09 season, however, Huddinge once more had to play the relegation league and didn't make it, and in the 2009/10 season Hudinge won their division 1 and Alletta leagues but lost two straight games in the play offs for the qualification league, to Olofströms IK. With neighbors AIK promoted for the 2010/11 Elitserien, this made the 2010/11 HockeyAllsvenskan the first time ever with no team from the Stockholm area in the second level league icehockey.

The team is most renowned as a "plant school" for the more established teams in the area. Famous Swedish ice hockey players such as Michael Nylander

Michael Nylander

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, Jan Mertzig

Jan Mertzig

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, Mattias Norström

Mattias Norström

Erik Johan Mattias "Notan" Norström is a Swedish retired professional ice hockey defenceman, currently working for the AIK IF organization. Norström began his National Hockey League career with the New York Rangers. However, he is most noted for his ten seasons as a member of the Los Angeles...

 have been fostered on the team.

In the 1953-54 season, when the club entered the third level league for the first time, it had a tremendously big name in Swedish ice hockey history on the team - Lars Ljungman, the Swedish ice hockey player who has scored the most goals in the same national game, 12 goals when Sweden beat Belgium 24-1 in the 1947 World Championships in Prague.

Peter Forsberg

Peter Forsberg

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 made his debut game with the senior team for his Swedish club Modo Hockey

MODO Hockey

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, when they played Huddinge away, one Sunday in March 1990.