MFF Support
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MFF Support is the official fan club for 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 Malmö FF
Malmö FF
Malmö Fotbollförening, also known simply as Malmö FF, are a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö. The club is affiliated with Skånes Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Swedbank Stadion. The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are sky blue and white...

. Founded on November 1, 1992, it has 1,877 members as of September 2011. Based on the number of members it is one of largest fan clubs in Sweden. Since the founding of the fan club in the early 1990s the number of members have been rising up until recently after the 2005 season. The current chairman is Magnus Ericsson who's had the post since September 2011.

Current Board

As of 21 September 2011


Chairman: Magnus Ericsson

Board Members: Jonas Nirfalk, Maria Jacobsson, Per Arvidsson, Susanne Lundberg

Deputy Directors: Julia Fält, Stephanie Lindhe

Chairmen

Years Name
2006–2009 Tony Ernst
2009–2011 Ola Solér
2011–Present Magnus Ericsson

History

MFF Support found itself in the limelight during a Royal League game in 2005, the first season of the Scandinavian Royal League Football Tournament. At this event, the Danish police allegedly attacked the members of the fan club without provocation at Parken
Parken Stadium
Parken Stadium is a football stadium in the Indre Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from 1990–1992. It currently has a capacity of 38,065 for football games, and is the home ground of F.C. Københaven and the Danish national football team...

, Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

. MFF Support held the police officers accountable for this scandal, and this event made several headlines in Denmark back in 2005. 2008 the officers where convicted for missconduct in Danish court.

External sources

  • mff.se - MFF Support at Malmö FF
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