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Gefle Idrottsförening, also known simply as Gefle IF, Gefle ((:ˈjæːvlɛ)), or locally Gif ((:ɡɪf)), are a Swedish professional football club based in Gävle. The club is affiliated with Gestriklands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Strömvallen, but are due to move to Gavlevallen for the start of the 2015 season.〔 The club colours are blue and white. Formed on 5 December 1882 as Gefle SK, the club have played twelve seasons in Sweden's highest football league Allsvenskan,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Maratontabell )〕 with the first season being 1933–34. The club are currently playing in Allsvenskan, where the season lasts from April to November.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Kontaktuppgifter och tävlingar 2013 – Gefle IF FF )〕 ==History== Gefle IF was originally formed as Gefle SK in December 1882 but changed the name to its current form only months after.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= När Gefle IF hade Sveriges bästa fotbollslag )〕 The name "Gefle" is one of the old variations of spelling for the town Gävle which was used from the 1500s to the early 1900s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Gävle stads namn )〕 The multisports club mainly focused on winter sports during its early years, with rowing being their only summertime activity. In 1896 the club started having regular football training sessions under the guidance of an English accountant by the name of Robert Carrick. Although born in England he had grown up in Gävle but returned to his homeland for a few years as a student. There he had picked up the new sport which he brought back with him to Sweden and introduced at Gefle IF.〔 The club found early success at the turn of the century by winning one of the biggest swedish cups at the time, Rosenska Pokalen, three times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Historik )〕 Due to high travel costs Gefle declined to participate in the other major swedish football tournament, Svenska Mästerskapet, during those years. Therefore, the clubs golden generation never got the chance to play against the nations other dominant team at the time, Örgryte IS from Gothenburg. An ever increasing number of football clubs were starting up in the early 1900s and Gefle were not able to maintain its dominant position among all the new competition. When the first swedish league Svenska Serien started in 1910 Gefle IF were not included and when they entered into the second tier of the league system in 1912–13 they finished dead last.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= När Gefle IF var bäst i Sverige )〕 During the rest of the 20th century the club mostly moved up and down between the second and third level of the Swedish football league system. They only managed two short lived stints at the top level Allsvenskan, one in the early 30s and one in the early 80s. Between the 1979 and 1981 season Gefle IF and Brynäs IF merged and played under the name Gefle IF/Brynäs, but the merger split up again in 1982.〔 In 2004 manager Kenneth Rosén was finally able to bring the club back to the top division after finishing second in the 2004 Superettan. Rosén had missed part of the previous season due to illness and after the club was promoted he again had to be hospitalized and died soon after. Long-time club servant Per "Pelle" Olsson immediately stepped in and took over as manager during the off-season and has managed to keep the club at the top level ever since.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Gefle IF:s tränare död )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gefle IF」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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