IK Brage 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....

 football club

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 located in Borlänge

Borlänge

Borlänge is a locality and the seat of Borlänge Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 49200 inhabitants in 2011.- History :Originally Borlänge was the name of a tiny village, and the first historical information about it is from 1390. The village was insignificant up until about 1870...

. The club, formed 1925, has played 18 seasons in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan

Allsvenskan

Allsvenskan is a Swedish professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Swedish football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Superettan...

. The 2010 season will be played in the second highest Swedish league, Superettan

Superettan

Superettan is the second highest league in the league system of Swedish football and comprises 16 Swedish football teams. It was created in 2000. Before that, the second level league in Sweden had been Division 1....

. IK Brage played in lower divisions (Division 1 and Division 2) between 2005–2009, but since the club was founded Brage have mostly played in the highest or the second highest league in Sweden.

The club can be seen as a continuation of the club IK Blixt which was founded in the early 1920s, but merged into Domnarvets GIF in 1923. Two years later, the merger was split and IK Blixt changed name to IK Brage in 1925.

Season to season

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Season	Level	Division	Section	Position	Movements
1991	Tier 2	Division 1		1st	Lost in playoff for promotion
1992	Tier 2	Division 1		3rd	Promoted
1993	Tier 1	Allsvenskan		14th	Relegated
1994 Division 1 1994 Statistics of Swedish football Division 1 in season 1994.-Overview:It was contested by 28 teams, and Djurgårdens IF and Örgryte IS won the championship.-Norra:-Södra:-References:*...	Tier 2	Division 1	Norra	6th
1995 Division 1 1995 Statistics of Swedish football Division 1 in season 1995.-Norra:-Södra:-References:*...	Tier 2	Division 1	Norra	5th
1996 Division 1 1996 Statistics of Swedish football Division 1 in season 1996.-Overview:It was contested by 28 teams, and Västerås SK and IF Elfsborg won the championship.-Norra:-Södra:-References:*...	Tier 2	Division 1	Norra	6th
1997 Division 1 1997 Statistics of Swedish football Division 1 in season 1997.-Overview:It was contested by 28 teams, and Hammarby IF and Västra Frölunda IF won the championship.-Norra:-Södra:-References:*...	Tier 2	Division 1	Norra	8th
1998 Division 1 1998 Statistics of Swedish football Division 1 in season 1998.-Overview:It was contested by 28 teams, and Djurgårdens IF and Kalmar FF won the championship.-Norra:-Södra:-References:*...	Tier 2	Division 1	Norra	6th
1999 Division 1 1999 Statistics of Swedish football Division 1 in season 1999.-Overview:It was contested by 28 teams, and GIF Sundsvall and BK Häcken won the championship.-Norra:-Södra:-References:*...	Tier 2	Division 1	Norra	5th
2000	Tier 2	Superettan		8th
2001	Tier 2	Superettan		10th
2002	Tier 2	Superettan		14th	Relegated
2003 Division 2 2003 Statistics of Swedish football Division 2 in season 2003.-Division 2 Norrland:-Division 2 Östra Svealand:-Division 2 Västra Svealand:-Division 2 Östra Götaland:-Division 2 Västra Götaland:...	Tier 3	Division 2	Västra Svealand	1st	Promotion Playoffs - Promoted
2004	Tier 2	Superettan		15th	Relegated
2005 Division 2 2005 Statistics of Swedish football Division 2 in season 2005.-Division 2 Norrland:-Division 2 Norra Svealand:-Division 2 Östra Svealand:-Division 2 Mellersta Götaland:...	Tier 3	Division 2	Norra Svealand	8th
2006 Division 2 2006 Statistics of Swedish football Division 2 in season 2006.-Division 2 Norrland:-Division 2 Norra Svealand:-Division 2 Östra Svealand:-Division 2 Mellersta Götaland:-Division 2 Västra Götaland:... *	Tier 4	Division 2	Norra Svealand	2nd
2007 Division 2 2007 Statistics of Swedish football Division 2 in season 2007.-Division 2 Norrland:-Division 2 Norra Svealand:-Division 2 Östra Svealand:-Division 2 Mellersta Götaland:-Division 2 Västra Götaland:...	Tier 4	Division 2	Norra Svealand	1st	Promoted
2008 Division 1 2008 Statistics of Swedish football Division 1 in season 2008.-Overview:It was contested by 28 teams, and Syrianska FC and FC Trollhättan won the championship.-Division 1 Norra:-Division 1 Södra:-References:*...	Tier 3	Division 1	Norra	11th
2009	Tier 3	Division 1	Norra	2nd	Promotion Playoffs - Promoted
2010 2010 Superettan -Standings:-Results:...	Tier 2	Superettan		11th
2011 2011 Superettan * 1 Correct as of end of 2010 Superettan season-Personnel and kits:Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules...	Tier 2	Superettan		14th	Relegation Playoffs

* League restructuring in 2006 resulted in a new division being created at Tier 3 and subsequent divisions dropping a level.

Current squad

For season transfers, see transfers winter 2011–2012.

Noted players

Plamen Nikolov

Plamen Nikolov (footballer born 1957)

Plamen Nikolov is a former Bulgarian football defender.In his career Nikolov played mostly for PFC Levski Sofia. In 1984 he was named Bulgarian Footballer of the Year. For Bulgaria national football team, Nikolov was capped 55 times. He was a successful player in the Swedish top division when...

 (1986-1990) Ian Butterworth

Ian Butterworth

Ian Stuart Butterworth is a former professional footballer, formerly assistant and caretaker manager at Norwich City....

 (1997)11 games 0 goals Brian Hornsby

Brian Hornsby

Brian Hornsby, born in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire on 10 September 1954, is a former football player who played for Arsenal, Shrewsbury Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Carlisle United in the English league. He also had short spells playing abroad for Edmonton Drillers , IK Brage and Falu FK for...

 (1984–85) 20 apps 1 goals Simon Hunt

Simon Hunt (footballer)

Simon Hunt is a retired English professional footballer who played in both the UK and Sweden. Most recently he was head of international scouting at Ipswich Town, and before that Sporting Director at West Bromwich Albion-Playing career:...

 (1987–89), (1991–93) 126 apps 43 goals Paul Maguire (footballer)

Paul Maguire (footballer)

Paul Edward Maguire is a Scottish footballer who played for a number of English clubs, racking up 373 appearances in the Football League.-Playing career:...

 (1984) 9 apps 0 goals Gary McSheffrey

Gary McSheffrey

Gary McSheffrey is an English footballer who plays as a left winger. He is currently in his second spell with hometown team Coventry City in the Football League Championship....

 (2001) 6 apps 0 goals Alin Vigariu Mark McGhee

Mark McGhee

Mark Edward McGhee is a former Scottish professional football player. McGhee started his career at Greenock Morton in 1975 and spent spells at clubs including Newcastle United, Aberdeen, Hamburg, Celtic, IK Brage and Reading...

 (1991) 3 apps 2 goals Kebba Ceesay

Kebba Ceesay

Kebba Ceesay is a Gambian-Swedish footballer, currently part of the Djurgårdens IF squad. Ceesay joined Djurgården from IK Brage at the start of the 2007 season, and made his Allsvenskan debut for Djurgården in the Stockholm derby against Hammarby IF on August 13, 2007. He usually plays as a...

 Mikael Eklund

Mikael Eklund

Mikael Eklund is a Swedish footballer playing currently for IK Brage, Borlänge. He is a trainee of Forssa BK in Borlänge. He won the Swedish championship, Allsvenskan, in 2008 with Kalmar FF. Eklund got his breakthru when playing for IK Brage in Superettan, and he signed for Kalmar FF in 2003.-...

 Martin Ericsson

Martin Ericsson

Martin Ericsson is a Swedish professional footballer, who plays as an attacking midfielder for IF Elfsborg in Allsvenskan. He has played seven matches for the Sweden national football team....

 Lasse Nilsson

Lasse Nilsson

Lasse Nilsson is a Swedish footballer who currently plays for the Elfsborg in the Swedish Allsvenskan.- Career :His former teams are IK Brage, IF Elfsborg, sc Heerenveen, Aalborg Boldspilklub and AS Saint-Étienne....

 Fredrik Söderström

Fredrik Söderström

Sven Olof Fredrik Söderström is a retired Swedish footballer who played as a midfielder.-Club career:Söderström started his professional career with lowly IK Brage. In January 1997, he moved to Vitória de Guimarães in Portugal, where his stellar performances attracted the attention of league...

 Rolf Zetterlund

Rolf Zetterlund

Rolf Zetterlund is a former Swedish footballer and football manager.He played for Atvidabergs FF, Sandvikens IF, AIK and IK Brage. He obtained the Swedish Football player of the year award the same he retired as a player, in 1980, at the age of 38...

League

• Division 1 Norra
  Division 1 Norra
  Division 1 Norra is one of two leagues of the third level, Division 1, in the league system of Swedish football and comprises 14 Swedish football teams...
  
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  • Runners-up (1): 2009
• Division 1 Östra
  Division 1 Östra
  Division 1 Östra was a short-lived league of the third level, Division 1, in the league system of Swedish football...
  
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  • Winners (1): 1992