IK Sirius

IK Sirius

Full name	Idrottsklubben Sirius
Sports	bandy floorball football
Founded	9 August 1907; 117 years ago (1907-08-09)
Based in	Uppsala, Sweden
Colours	Black   Blue

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 [sv].[1]

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 an alliance club [sv] using the same name.[5]

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

Departments

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]

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".