IK Sirius Bandy

This article is about IK Sirius' bandy section. For other sections of the club, see IK Sirius.

IK Sirius
City	Uppsala, Sweden
League	Elitserien
Founded	1907;118 years ago (1907)
Home arena	Studenternas IP
Head coach	Oskar Robertsson
Website	siriusbandy.se
Home colours Away colours

Studenternas IP

IK Sirius is a Swedish bandy club located in Uppsala, currently playing in Elitserien. IK Sirius were formed in 1907 and play their home games at Studenternas Idrottsplats. ^[1]

History

The sports club that became IK Sirius was founded on 9 August 1907, and got its current name on 5 April 1908 after having been discussing Svartbäckens IK and IK Spurt. ^[2] At the time, several sports club existed in the city of Uppsala: IFK Uppsala, IF Thor, IF Heimdal, and Upsala IF. ^[2] The sports club was founded for athletics, and took up bandy in 1908. ^[3]

IK Sirius' first success was becoming Swedish runners-up in 1918, they followed this up by becoming Swedish champions twice in 1921 and 1922, but they then didn't have any more success in the league until 1926 where they were runners-up and they were also runners-up in 1928.

In the first year of bandy league system in Sweden, 1930–31, Sirius entered in Division 1 Norra together with AIK, Hammarby IF, IF Vesta, IFK Rättvik, Skutskärs IF, SK Tirfing, and Västerås SK and finished 5th. ^[4]

In the 1960s the club came back as one of the strongest in the league, finishing second behind Västerås SK in 1960. They won the title the following year beating Edsbyns IF, but the clubs swapped positions in 1962 with Edsbyns IF taking the crown. In 1966 IK Sirius BK won the league for a fourth time but lost the title to Örebro SK the following year. They regained the title for the 5th and currently last time in 1968 beating Örebro SK in the final match.

In 1992 they gained their only World Cup victory beating Sandvikens AIK 7–0 in the final.

In 2008–09 Sirius had their best season in two decades, finishing 3rd in Elitserien and lost to Edsbyns IF in the semi-final off the play-offs.

Current squad

As of 5 January 2022 ^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIB eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIB nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 GK   SWE Anton Andersson 16 GK   SWE Ludvig Jonasson 12 DF   SWE Oscar Qvist 15 DF   SWE Jerker Ortman 40 DF   SWE Sune Gustafsson 66 DF   SWE Stefan Kröller 6 MF   SWE David Thorén 23 MF   SWE William Liw 61 MF   SWE Ted Haraldsson 9 MF   SWE Matteus Liw

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF   SWE Nils Bergström 39 MF   SWE Arvid Tapper 62 MF   SWE Daniel Bäck-Nirs 10 FW   SWE Ted Bergström Heramb 11 FW   SWE Albin Thomsen 20 FW   SWE Kalle Mårtensson

Honours

Domestic

• Swedish Champions: ^[6]
  • Winners (5): 1921, 1922, 1961, 1966, 1968
  • Runners-up (5): 1918, 1926, 1928, 1960, 1962
• Swedish Cup:
  • Bronze medalists: 2024

International

• World Cup:
  • Winners (1): ^[7] 1992
  • Runners-up (1): 1977

References

1. "IK SIRIUS - Svenska Bandyförbundet". Archived from the original on 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2018-01-22.
2. "1907: Så började det".
3. "IK Sirius". Nordisk familjeboks sportlexikon: uppslagsverk för sport, gymnastik och friluftsliv. Band 6 S–Övrevoll (in Swedish). Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks förlag. 1946. p. 252.
4. "Statistik". www.jimbobandy.nu. Archived from the original on 2015-02-22. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
5. "IK Sirius Bandy | Herrlaget".
6. "Herrar - Svenska Bandyförbundet". www.svenskbandy.se. Archived from the original on 2015-02-17.
7. "Om klubben". www.siriusbandy.se. Archived from the original on 2010-06-04.

External links

• Official website
• ibdb bandysidan