IK Sirius
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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]
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 an alliance club using the same name.[5]
In 1999, the floorball club IBK JT 97 joined IK Sirius.[6]
| Sport | Started | Ended | Home venue | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| athletics | 1907 | discontinued | [3][7] | ||
| bandy IK Sirius Bandy | 1908 | Studenternas IP | [3][8] | ||
| bowling | discontinued | [7] | |||
| boxing | discontinued | [3] | |||
| canoeing | 1917 | 1929 | became KS Ägir | [3] | |
| cross-country skiing | 1908 | discontinued | [3] | ||
| floorball IK Sirius Innebandy | 1999 | IFU Arena | IBK 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 | 1908 | Studenternas IP | [3][10] | ||
| women's football IK Sirius Fotboll (women) | 2017 | became IK Uppsala | [11][12] | ||
| handball IK Sirius Handboll | 1936 | discontinued | [3][7] | ||
| ice hockey IK Sirius Ishockey | 1937 | 1980 | [3][7][4] | ||
| swimming | discontinued | [3][7] | |||
| orienteering | discontinued | [3] | |||
| tennis | discontinued | [3] | |||
| water polo | discontinued | [7] | |||
| wrestling | discontinued | [3] |
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