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Key facts
- Full name
- Silkeborg Idrætsforening
- Short name
- SIF
- Founded
- 1917 ; 109 years ago ( 1917 )
- Ground
- JYSK Park
- Capacity
- 10,000 (6,000 seated)
- Owner
- Trivela Group
- Chairman
- Kent Madsen
- Head coach
- Kent Nielsen
- League
- Superliga
- 2025 26
- Superliga , 9th of 12
- Website
- www .silkeborgif .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports team
- Sport
- Soccer
- League
- Danish Superliga
- Stadium
- Jysk Park
- Country
- Denmark
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- association football club
- Country
- Denmark
- Located in
- Silkeborg Municipality
- Headquarters
- Silkeborg
- Legal form
- aktieselskab
- Sport
- association football
- League
- Danish Superliga
- Official website
- www.silkeborgif.com
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- category for members of a team
- Category:Silkeborg IF players
- head coach
- Kent Nielsen
- home venue
- JYSK Park
- topic's main category
- Category:Silkeborg IF
- Commons category
- Silkeborg IF
- postal code
- 8600
- inception
- 1917-01-01
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Current season
Silkeborg Idrætsforening, ( pronounced [ˈse̝lkəˌpɒˀ ˈitʁætsfɒˌe̝ˀne̝ŋ]; commonly known as Silkeborg IF or SIF in short) is a professional football club based in Silkeborg, Denmark. The club was founded in 1917, reached the highest level of Danish football in 1987, and afterwards became one of the most successful football clubs in Denmark. They won the 1993–94 Danish Superliga, finished third in 1994–95, 2000–01, and 2021–22, second in 1997–98, and won the Danish Cup in 2001 and 2024. Silkeborg has participated in European competitions several times, winning the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1996.
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