History of Malmö FF
The club is affiliated with Skånes Fotbollförbund (The Scanian Football Association), and plays its home games at Stadion.
The members of BK Idrott joined the newly created football department of IFK Malmö in 1909, but soon left because of issues between the two clubs.
In 1916 Malmö FF reached the final of the Scanian regional competition (Distriktsmästerskapen) for the first time, playing against rival Helsingborgs IF but losing 3–4.
They won this division in the first season, and were promoted to Svenska Serien Västra, the highest level of competition in Sweden at the time.
However, they were relegated after a single season, and found themselves back in Sydsvenska Serien for nearly a decade until they again achieved promotion to Allsvenskan, in 1931.
Somehow these gifts later became known by the Swedish Football Association in Stockholm, and was by them considered to be a crime against the harsh amateur rules of the time.
[13] Legendary chairman Eric Persson was for the rest of his days known to have a strong repulsive antipathy towards the yellow IFK Malmö, which likely was the gossip tubs.
After an initial 0–0 draw home against French champions Monaco it seemed difficult for Malmö FF to progress further in the competition.
[17] After an unusually cold winter, Malmö FF played Polish champions Wisla Krakow.
After a 1–2 defeat away, the return match began ill-fitting for Malmö FF as the Polish side scored in the 58th minute.
However Malmö FF turned the match back around as Anders "Puskas" Ljungberg scored a hat trick that together with a goal from Tore Cervin completed the comeback.
After a goalless draw in Vienna, Tommy Hansson scored the single decisive goal that brought Malmö FF to the final of the European Cup.
The 1998 Allsvenskan season resulted in a tenth place for the team as they narrowly escaped the relegation play-offs with one point to spare.
Malmö FF ended the season in 13th out of 14th place, two points behind the teams playing the relegation play-offs.
Successful sponsor work and player sales also made Malmö FF the richest club in Sweden, a position they still hold as of 2012.
[27] Malmö FF once again reached the final qualifying stage of the UEFA Champions League in 2011–12 after beating Scottish side Rangers F.C.
However like in 2005 the club failed to progress to the group stage and the competition proper after losing 3–4 on aggregate against the Croatian 2010–11 Prva HNL champions Dinamo Zagreb.
The other teams that was part of the group were Ukrainian Metalist Kharkiv, Dutch AZ and Austrian Austria Wien.
A major point of discussion during the season was manager Roland Nilsson's mid-season departure from the club in May and Rikard Norling's appointment in June.
A bright point of the 2011 season was Malmö FF's progression to the quarter–finals in the 2011 Svenska Cupen, the club's best cup result since they reached the semi-finals in 2002.
For Rikard Norling's first full season as manager in 2012 the club managed had only the 2012 Allsvenskan to focus on since they had failed to qualify for European play as well as Svenska Cupen changing format to a fall-spring schedule which made 2012 a gap year with only one cup match for the club.
