IK Sirius

Idrottsklubben Sirius, commonly known as IK Sirius or Sirius, is a Swedish sports club located in Uppsala. Today IK Sirius is active in bandy, floorball, and football as an alliance club.[1]

IK Sirius
Full nameIdrottsklubben Sirius
Sportsbandy
floorball
football
Founded9 August 1907 (1907-08-09)
Based inUppsala, Sweden
Colours  Black
  Blue

History

The sports club that became IK Sirius was founded on 9 August 1907 in the area of Svartbäcken in Uppsala, and got its current name on 5 April 1908 after having been discussing Svartbäckens IK and IK Spurt.[2] At the time, several sports club existed in the city of Uppsala: IFK Uppsala, IF Thor, IF Heimdal, and Upsala IF.[2] The sports club was founded for athletics, and took up cross-country skiing, bandy and football in 1908.[3] During the first half of the 20th century, the sports club has also practised canoeing, swimming, handball, ice hockey, tennis, wrestling, boxing, and orienteering.[3]

In 1980, the ice hockey department was dissolved.[4] In 1991, the two remaining departments of football and bandy split and choose to act as a alliance club using the same name.[5]

In 1999, the floorball club IBK JT 97 joined IK Sirius.[6]

Departments
SportStartedEndedHome venueNotesRef.
athletics1907discontinued[3][7]
bandy
IK Sirius Bandy		1908Studenternas IP[3][8]
bowlingdiscontinued[7]
boxingdiscontinued[3]
canoeing19171929became KS Ägir[3]
cross-country skiing1908discontinued[3]
floorball
IK Sirius Innebandy		1999IFU ArenaIBK JT 97 (a 1997 merge of Teknikums IBK and Johannesbäck IBS) joined IK Sirius in 1999; FBC Uppsala merged into IK Sirius in 2017[6][9]
men's football
IK Sirius Fotboll		1908Studenternas IP[3][10]
women's football
IK Sirius Fotboll (women)		2017became IK Uppsala[11][12]
handball
IK Sirius Handboll		1936discontinued[3][7]
ice hockey
IK Sirius Ishockey		19371980[3][7][4]
swimmingdiscontinued[3][7]
orienteeringdiscontinued[3]
tennisdiscontinued[3]
water polodiscontinued[7]
wrestlingdiscontinued[3]

References
  1. "Om IK Sirius - IK Sirius".
  2. "1907: Så började det".
  3. "IK Sirius". Nordisk familjeboks sportlexikon: uppslagsverk för sport, gymnastik och friluftsliv. Band 6 S–Övrevoll (in Swedish). Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks förlag. 1946. p. 252.
  4. "Uppland |".
  5. "Sirius - Uppslagsverk - NE.se".
  6. "Historik".
  7. "IK Sirius Bandy | Vår historia".
  8. "IK SIRIUS - Svenska Bandyförbundet". Archived from the original on 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2018-01-22.
  9. "Sirius Innebandy herr arenor".
  10. "Studenternas".
  11. "Damlaget lämnar Sirius efter striderna". 5 November 2016.
  12. "IK Uppsala Fotboll".
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