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

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  1. ^ "Föreningen". Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  2. ^ ""Det är skamligt hur han blir behandlad"". 3 November 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "PLACERINGAR I HÖGSTA SERIEN" (PDF). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  4. ^ a b c "När KFUM fyllde Boråshallen". 22 March 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Handboll 1964/1965 Allsvenskan Herr". Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Sjuhärads handbollshistoria från I15 till nedläggning". 9 November 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Om Borås HK 84". Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  8. ^ "BHK drar ur herrlaget: "Det gör ont i hjärtat"". 9 November 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Välkommen till Borås Tennis- och Boulecenter". Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Tennisklubbar slås ihop i Borås". Sveriges Radio. 3 October 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2017.