IFK Göteborg Academy

The IFK Göteborg Academy is a youth development program associated with the Swedish football club IFK Göteborg. This academy is often called The Football Academy (Swedish: Fotbollsakademin). Another informal name for the academy is Änglagården (English: The House of Angels), after the name of the primary training facility used by the academy.

Academy history

In 1996 noted-sportsman Roger Gustafsson resigned as manager of the IFK Göteborg team. He had won an extraordinary five championships in his six-year tenure. Gustafsson received several employment offers from major European clubs. However, he indicated that he was not interested in leaving IFK, which he had worked for since 1983 (in a variety of positions). He encouraged IFK to change strategy after the Bosman ruling—which allowed the players to leave their team for free at contract expiration—by putting much more emphasis on producing talented players on their own rather than buying talent from other clubs.[1]

He constructed an educational programme called "Secrets to Soccer" (S2S, Swedish: "Fotbollens hemligheter") which was first used in 1998 by the youngest of the IFK Göteborg's youth teams (six- to eight-year-olds).[2] At present, all of the club's youth teams, from ages six to sixteen, use the program. The S2S programme is also available for other clubs both in Sweden and in other countries.

The oldest youth squad (the under-19s) are educated both at Änglagården and Kamratgården—the main training ground of IFK Göteborg—as well as at the football gymnasiums Katrinelundsgymnasiet and Aspero Idrottsgymnasium.[2][3] In 2015, the academy moved into the newly constructed multi-sports complex Prioritet Serneke Arena.

The main aim of the academy is to provide the first squad with 50 percent of its players. Other aims include that all players and leaders should develop both as individuals and as players/leaders, that all involved should remember their time at IFK Göteborg as one of their best times in life, and that the academy should contribute to the development of football.

Boys under-19s

Squad
As of 2 April 2022[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK  SWE Isak Felldin
— GK  SWE Lucas Samuelsson
— DF  SWE Oliwer Brodin
— DF  SWE Felix Eriksson
— DF  SWE Alai Hussain Ghasem
— DF  SWE Hampus Heed
— DF  SWE William Jansson
— DF  SWE Simon Jonasson
— DF  SWE Angelo Isla Kulpa
— DF  SWE Bojan Petrić
— DF  SWE Anton Pärleholt
— DF  SWE Liam Röhne
— MF  SWE Melwin Berg
— MF  SWE Jonathan Enhult
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  SWE Yaqub Finey
— MF  SWE Danilo Glušica
— MF  SWE Lucas Hansson
— MF  SWE Mohib Khalaf
— MF  SWE León Persson
— MF  SWE Algot Pärleholt
— MF  SWE Oliver Svahn
— FW  SWE Linus Carlstrand
— FW  SWE Kasper Frelén
— FW  SWE Anton Kurochkin
— FW  SWE Kevin Larsson Ajayi
— FW  SWE Philip Nicoletti
— FW  SWE Boris Sadiku
— FW  SWE Johannes Selvén

Available first-team players

The following players are part of the first-team squad, but are born in 2003 or later, and are thus available to compete in the 2022 Swedish Under-19 Championships.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW  SWE Hussein Carneil
20 DF  SWE Johan Bångsbo
24 MF  CRO Filip Ambrož
No. Pos. Nation Player
29 FW  SWE Oscar Vilhelmsson
31 GK  SWE Gustav Lillienberg

Honours

Boys under-17s

Honours

Girls under-17s

Honours

Citations
  1. Orrenius, Johan (2009-10-29). "Folk kallade mig för dåre". Expressen. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
  2. "Gunnar Nordahl-stipendiet 2008 till IFK Göteborg". Swedish Football Association. 2008-11-10. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
  3. "IFK Göteborgs fotbollsakademi". IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  4. "P19 spelarporträtt" (in Swedish). IFK Göteborg. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  5. Svenska Fotbollförbundet – Segrande lag genom åren.
  6. Alsiö et al. 2004, pp. 246–247.
  7. Alsiö et al. 2004, p. 248.

References
  • Alsiö, Martin; Frantz, Alf; Lindahl, Jimmy; Persson, Gunnar, eds. (2004). 100 år: Svenska fotbollförbundets jubileumsbok 1904–2004 (in Swedish). Vol. 2. Vällingby: Stroemberg Media Group. ISBN 91-86184-59-8.
  • "Segrande lag genom åren" (in Swedish). Svenska Fotbollförbundet. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
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