Upsala Studenters IF is a Swedish sport club from Uppsala founded in 1908. They club has had sections in basketball, table tennis, athletics, fencing, handball, volleyball, bandy and tennis[1] The handball team was promoted to Allsvenskan in 1937.[2] They won the Swedish championship, decided by a straight knockout tournament, in 1939.[3] After that season, they withdrew from Allsvenskan and never returned.[2] They did, however, play in the last edition of the Swedish championship tournament in 1952 (after that the Swedish champions title was awarded to the league winners).[3] In 2012, the handball team merged with HK71 and formed Uppsala HK.[4]
References
- ^ "Föreningen". Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ a b "Placeringar i högsta serien" (PDF). Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ a b Boken om handboll ("The book about handball"). Bygd och folk förlag. pp. 46–75.
- ^ "Om klubben". Retrieved 6 July 2017.