List of Malmö FF chairmen

The club is affiliated with Skånes Fotbollförbund (The Scanian Football Association), and plays its home games at Stadion.

[6] Malmö FF made the transition from amateurism to full professionalism in the late 1970s under the leadership of club chairman Eric Persson.

The general meeting approves the accounts, votes to elect the chairman and other board members, and decides on incoming motions.

The first board of directors comprised Bror Hansson, Fritz Landgren, Werner Mårtensson, Hjalmar Nilsson and Oscar Persson.

[3] Most of the titles won during this time were under foreign managers, the most successful of whom in terms of honours was Bob Houghton, whom Persson appointed in 1974.

Persson was reportedly initially hesitant to employ Houghton, who at 27 was younger than several of the club's players, but was convinced when the Englishman met them and won their respect and confidence.

[3] Persson was succeeded by Hans Cavalli-Björkman, a CEO at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, a major Swedish banking group.

[3] The club also became runners-up in the 1979 Intercontinental Cup, taking part after Forest forfeited their place in the competition; pitted against Olimpia of Paraguay, Malmö lost 3–1 on aggregate.

[15] During the 1980s, Malmö FF won Allsvenskan five times in a row between 1985 and 1989, but were only awarded the Swedish championship in 1986 and 1988 as the club failed to win the newly constructed play-off stage during 1985, 1987 and 1989.

Cavalli-Björkman retired as chairman of Malmö FF after the 1998 season, leaving the post to Bengt Madsen, whom club members elected in the banker's place.

[19] In 2004, Malmö FF won Allsvenskan for the first time since 1989, and thereby ended the longest title drought in the club's history.

[22] Håkan Jeppsson, CEO of Inwido, a Swedish company that sells windows and doors, was elected as the club's new chairman in February 2010.

Jeppsson's first year as chairman proved to be markedly different from those directly preceding it, as the club won its 19th league title in November 2010.

A photograph of an older man with a boy sitting in his lap. The older man, to the left, is bald, wearing glasses and wearing a dark brown business suit with a white shirt and a red tie underneath. The boy is blonde and wears a light blue football shirt and white shorts, with a leather football in his left hand. Several other boys can be seen with similar outfits in the background.
Eric Persson (left, pictured with his nephew) was Malmö FF chairman for a record 38 years, from 1937 to 1975. During this time the club won 10 Allsvenskan league championships, and lifted Svenska Cupen eight times. [ 1 ]
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Fritz Landgren co-founded Malmö FF with 18 other men on 24 February 1910. He was also the chairman of the club over three spells, from 1916 to 1918, from 1922 to 1926, and finally from 1929 to 1934. [ 9 ]