List of Malmö FF seasons

[1] After participating in regional competitions and national cup play in Svenska Mästerskapet during the 1910s, Malmö FF joined Sweden's newly created national league system in 1920, and played in the second tier of Swedish football for the next decade – with the exception of one season in Svenska Serien, then unofficially the top football league in Sweden.

[5] After winning a record five consecutive Allsvenskan titles between 1985 and 1989, the club won nothing during the 1990s and were relegated for the first time in 1999, though they returned to the top flight a year later.

[11] Excluding second-tier seasons, however, the record belongs to Bo Larsson, whose tally of 28 goals in 22 games during 1965 remains unmatched today.

[14] The Swedish Football Association introduced an official league system in 1920, and placed Malmö FF in a regional section of the second tier, Division 2 Sydsvenska Serien.

Achieving mid-table positions in this league, Malmö FF stayed in the second tier after it was renamed Division 2 Södra for the 1928–29 season.

Malmö FF won the Division 2 Södra title at the first attempt, but failed to win the play-offs which decided promotion back to Allsvenskan.

The side had a period of great success in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when they finished within the top three in Allsvenskan for ten cosecutive seasons, securing five league titles.

[23] Malmö FF won promotion back to Allsvenskan after only one season in Superettan,[24] and once again established themselves as a successful top-level club during the first decade of the 21st century.

[25] Malmö FF then became a mid-table team as they finished between the fifth and ninth positions during the latter part of the decade, before they won the league once more in 2010, the club's centenary year.

[30] In the same season Malmö FF also became the first Swedish club to play in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League in fourteen years.

An association football team poses for a formative black-and-white photograph. A row of seven men sits on a bench, all wearing light-coloured shirts and white shorts apart from the player in the centre, who wears black. A football rests on the ground between his feet. Behind the seated row stand seven more men, all but one of whom are wearing the same light-coloured shirts. The exception is a gentleman standing at the end of the row on the viewer's right, who wears a dark double-breasted suit, tie and wide-brimmed fedora hat. All of those present have their arms folded apart from the man in the suit, whose hands are behind his back. In the background a set of goalposts can be seen.
The Malmö FF team of 1943–44 , when the club won Allsvenskan for the first time
An impressive trophy of a somewhat cubist fashion. Made of silver, it comprises a large socle, a large semi-circular handle on each side and a depiction of an old-fashioned leather football on top. The words "Lennart Johanssons Pokal" can be seen engraved on the front.
Lennart Johanssons Pokal , the current trophy awarded to the Swedish football champions , here seen in 2010 in Malmö FF's ownership after winning Allsvenskan the same year
A black-and-white action shot taken in the midst of an association football match. To the viewer's right a player in light shirt, white shorts and white socks turns to his right, his eyes pointed down towards the ball. A shield bearing the letters "MFF" is prominently displayed on his shirt. Behind him, an opposing player in a white shirt can be seen stumbling mid-chase, throwing his arms forward to break his fall.
Malmö FF's Bertil Nilsson (right) , pictured in 1959
A broad-shouldered, Nordic-looking association football player, pictured mid-match. Looking to his left (the viewer's right), he sports a sky blue, white and black shirt and white shorts, and a red and white striped band around his left arm.
Malmö FF midfielder Niclas Nyhlén , pictured in 1996 as the team's captain