Nacka FC

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Nacka FC
Full nameNacka Football Club
Founded14 May 2015
GroundSaltsjöbadens IP
Nacka
Sweden
ChairmanSalih Shala
Head Coach Eldin Kozica
League Division 2 Södra Svealand

Nacka FC is a Swedish football club located in the Stockholm suburb of Nacka. [1] The club is a merger club consisting of Nacka FC, a youth club formed in 2015 and FC Iliria Stockholm, a team formed by the ethnic Albanian community in Stockholm the same year. The clubs merged in 2019, under the name FC Nacka Iliria and later fully merged to the common name Nacka FC. [2]

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Background

Since their foundation in 2015, Nacka FC has achieved a record-paced climb up the Swedish football league system. Together with FC Stockholm Internazionale they are the only club in the Swedish capital who has managed to climb from the lowest division (division 7) all the way up to division 2 within 7 seasons. The club is also the youngest club participating in the top tiers of Swedish football (Allsvenskan to division 3).

As newcomers to division 2 Södra Svealand in season 2023, the club will continue to be managed by the Swedish-Bosnian coach Eldin Kozica. The Sport Director is Salih Shala, the Swedish-Albanian co-founder of the club who has been in charge of the first team since its debut in the lowest division in Sweden. [3]

Players

First-team squad

As of 6 January 2021 [4]

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of Norway.svg  NOR Theo Graasvoll
2 DF Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Kenan Nisic
4 DF Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Youssri Ouni
5 DF Flag of Albania.svg  ALB Albion Kurbasha
6 DF Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Marcus Törnstrand
7 MF Flag of Poland.svg  POL Jakub Kolarczyk
8 MF Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Erik Håkansson
9 FW Flag of The Gambia.svg  GAM Fabakary Sanneh
10 MF Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  SUI Tim Hauzenberger
11 FW Flag of Afghanistan (2013-2021).svg  AFG Shahir Ameri
13 DF Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Adam Ohlander
14 MF Flag of Ethiopia.svg  ETH Bilal Ali Mohammed
No.Pos.NationPlayer
16 FW Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Ilias Alaoui
17 MF Flag of Sierra Leone.svg  SLE Abu Bakarr Suma
19 FW Flag of Yemen.svg  YEM Emad Adel Qasem
20 MF Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Alex Fischer
22 GK Flag of Croatia.svg  CRO Kevin Blennestrand
23 FW Flag of North Macedonia.svg  MKD Jovan Kostovski
24 DF Flag of Egypt.svg  EGY Aymann Ahmed
27 FW Flag of The Gambia.svg  GAM Lamin Sanneh
29 FW Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Alessandro Visconti
30 GK Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Victor Pålsson Lundell
99 FW Flag of Djibouti.svg  DJI Mahammad Abdi Momin

Season to Season

SeasonDivisionSectionPositionMovements
2015Division 7Stockholm3rd
2016Division 77 J1stPromoted
2017Division 66 F3rd
2018Division 66 F2ndPromoted
2019Division 5Södra1stPromoted
2020Division 4Södra2ndPromoted
2021Division 3Södra Svealand4th
2022Division 3Södra Svealand1stPromoted
2023Division 2Södra Svealand

Footnotes

  1. "FC Iliria Stockholm" . Retrieved 2010-09-20.
  2. "FC Nacka Iliria" . Retrieved 2020-02-15.
  3. "Nacka FC - Herr / Nacka FC Iliria - Svenskalag.se".
  4. "Laget" (in Swedish). FC Nacka Iliria. Retrieved 6 Jan 2022.


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