KFUM Borås

KFUM Borås is a Swedish multi-sport club based in Borås. The club's basketball team, known as Borås Basket, play in the Swedish top division Basketligan in 2017–18.^[1]^[2] KFUM is a translation of the English language YMCA.

The club's handball team were promoted to the highest league, Allsvenskan, in 1964.^[3] The team that won promotion mainly consisted of local players. A major reason for their success was the physical shape of the players. Coach Arne Eriksson, a former Swedish military pentathlon champion, made the players regularly practise long-distance running. This gave the team an advantage over technically more skilled opponents.^[4] In their debut season in the top-flight, Borås finished second, a single point behind champions Redbergslids IK.^[3]^[5] They did this with largely the same team that had won promotion.^[4] They had an average attendance around 2400 during the season.^[6] However, the club was relegated in the following season and never returned to the top division.^[3] During this time, the team played their home matches in Boråshallen, the same arena that is currently used by the basketball team.^[4] In 1984, KFUM Borås's handball department merged with three other clubs to form Borås HK 84.^[7] In 2017, Borås HK 84 discontinued its men's first team.^[8]

The club used to have a tennis department. In 2012 it merged with two other clubs and the organisation that operates the courts to form Elfsborg Tennis.^[9]^[10]

References[edit]

^ "Föreningen". Retrieved 12 November 2017.
^ ""Det är skamligt hur han blir behandlad"". Retrieved 12 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "PLACERINGAR I HÖGSTA SERIEN" (PDF). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "När KFUM fyllde Boråshallen". Retrieved 12 November 2017.
^ "Handboll 1964/1965 Allsvenskan Herr". Retrieved 12 November 2017.
^ "Sjuhärads handbollshistoria från I15 till nedläggning". Retrieved 13 November 2017.
^ "Om Borås HK 84". Retrieved 12 November 2017.
^ "BHK drar ur herrlaget: "Det gör ont i hjärtat"". Retrieved 12 November 2017.
^ "Välkommen till Borås Tennis- och Boulecenter". Retrieved 12 November 2017.
^ "Tennisklubbar slås ihop i Borås". Retrieved 12 November 2017.

[basket1-1] "Föreningen". Retrieved 12 November 2017.

[basket2-2] ""Det är skamligt hur han blir behandlad"". Retrieved 12 November 2017.

[placeringar-3] "PLACERINGAR I HÖGSTA SERIEN" (PDF). Retrieved 12 November 2017.

[upp-4] "När KFUM fyllde Boråshallen". Retrieved 12 November 2017.

[RU-5] "Handboll 1964/1965 Allsvenskan Herr". Retrieved 12 November 2017.

[publik-6] "Sjuhärads handbollshistoria från I15 till nedläggning". Retrieved 13 November 2017.

[BHK84-7] "Om Borås HK 84". Retrieved 12 November 2017.

[ned-8] "BHK drar ur herrlaget: "Det gör ont i hjärtat"". Retrieved 12 November 2017.

[tennis1-9] "Välkommen till Borås Tennis- och Boulecenter". Retrieved 12 November 2017.

[tennis2-10] "Tennisklubbar slås ihop i Borås". Retrieved 12 November 2017.

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