fc rosengård · History

FC Rosengård is a Swedish women's football club based in Malmö. It was founded on 7 September 1970, when the board of Malmö FF set up a women's team within the club under the name Malmö FF Dam. It became independent in 2007 as LdB FC Malmö and took the name FC Rosengård in December 2013. Its honours include 14 Swedish championships, six Swedish Cups and four Swedish Super Cups.

Origins as Malmö FF Dam

Putte Asp was the team's first coach, a post he held until 1973. Through the 1970s the side worked its way up the regional divisions: in 1980 it won Division 2 Södra Götaland, and in 1986 it won Division 1 Södra, then the top tier, to claim its first Swedish championship. The early 1990s brought a run of success, with league titles in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994 and a first Swedish Cup in 1990.

Ground and local roots

The team plays at Malmö IP, a ground with room for 7,600 spectators. The club's name comes from its merger with FC Rosengård 1917, a club from the Rosengård district founded in 1917 as Malmö Boll och Idrottsförening, where Zlatan Ibrahimović played his youth football. Since 2008 the club has also run a Football for Life centre in South Africa.

The runners-up years and a first European run

After the 1994 title came a long spell close to the top without another league crown. The team finished second in 1996 and in every season up to 2002, seven in a row, with a second Swedish Cup in 1997 as some consolation. It was also runner-up in 1989 and 2005, and lost the 2003 cup final. In Europe, the 2003–04 UEFA Women's Cup took Malmö to the semi-finals: after beating Kolbotn 2–1 in the quarter-finals, the team lost 4–1 on aggregate to 1. FFC Frankfurt. Anders Johansson took charge in 2003 and Jörgen Petersson in 2006.

LdB FC Malmö (2007–2013)

On 11 April 2007 the women's team split from Malmö FF and was renamed LdB FC Malmö following a sponsorship agreement. With Martin Sjögren as coach, the club won the league again in 2010, a year in which Therese Sjögran was named the league's best player and Dutch forward Manon Melis finished as top scorer. A second straight title followed in 2011 with a squad that included Caroline Seger, and the club won the Super Cup in 2011 and 2012. After Sjögren left in 2011, Peter Moberg and Jonas Eidevall took over, with Eidevall as head coach from 2012. The team reached the Champions League quarter-finals in 2011–12, going out to Frankfurt, and in 2012–13, when Olympique Lyon beat them 8–0 on aggregate. The league title returned to Malmö in 2013.

FC Rosengård and the Marta years

On 12 December 2013 LdB FC Malmö merged with FC Rosengård 1917 and adopted its name. Brazilian forward Marta arrived from Tyresö in 2014 and stayed in Malmö until April 2017, when she joined Orlando Pride. The team won the Damallsvenskan in 2014 and 2015 and lifted the Super Cup in 2015 and 2016. After losing the 2015 cup final, it won three Swedish Cups in a row, in 2016, 2017 and 2018. In Europe it reached the quarter-finals in three consecutive seasons, going out to VfL Wolfsburg on away goals in 2015, to Frankfurt on penalties in 2016 and to FC Barcelona in 2017. Players such as Nilla Fischer, Hedvig Lindahl, Lieke Martens, Anja Mittag and Ramona Bachmann also played for the club.

Titles from 2019 to 2024

The league title came back in 2019, and in 2020–21 the team reached another Champions League quarter-final, losing 4–0 on aggregate to Bayern Munich. Eidevall left in 2021 after almost a decade in charge. Renée Slegers coached the side between 2021 and 2022, and Joel Kjetselberg from 2022 to 2025. In that period Rosengård won the 2021 and 2022 league titles and the 2022 Swedish Cup, and played in the group stage of the 2022–23 Champions League. Caroline Seger retired at the end of 2024, the season in which the club won its 14th Swedish championship.