IFK Sälhyltan

IFK Sälhyltan (102770)
managed by Elowson
Full Name	IFK Sälhyltan
Nickname	Sälhyltan
Founded	2012-02-19
Location	Småland, Sverige
Arena	Parken
Coach	Bengt Gillkvist
League	V.265
updated on: 2025-12-01 15:00

Team kits

Home kit Away kit

Parken
Last Rebuild	2016-09-25
Terraces	27000
Basic	10000
Roof	8000
VIP	1000
Capacity	46000

Trophies

Season 74 Season 70 Season 68 Season 62 Season 90 Season 88 Season 79 Season 61 Season 55 Season 51 Season 49

Overview

IFK Sälhyltan is a hattrick club founded by Viktor Ahbez. This historical moment happened on February 19, 2012. Team is located in Småland, Sverige. Future stars are coming from IFK Sälhyltan youth club IFK Sälhyltan U-19.

They started out in Division VI, season 48 and finished in 3rd place. During this time the team acquired a lot of new players, and a lot of original players was sacked, the team became a revolving door for players leaving and joining. The team was known for focusing on a strong midfield in the early days with Ivan Traykov as the most prominent playmaker, the forward duo of "Abbiati-Sedeniussen" made big success on the lower levels with Abbiati as the defensive forward and Sedeniussen as the offensive one. On May 24th 2012 Sälhyltan completed an unexpected transfer when they signed striker Göran Uddborn from rivals FC Xsas, the signing was highly controversial since Uddborn had scored 6 goals for FC Xsas when they defeated Sälhyltan with 1-7. Before the start of season 49 the team set as their goal to advance to Division V, they acquired Slovakian midfielder Rudolf Goban as the last piece of the puzzle, he was the most expensive transfer for the team so far and the one with the highest TSI by far. In the middle of season 49 the team acquired new trainer Hayati Yaşar Yaldız after the former trainer Patrik Österlind's contract was terminated (by his own will).

Sälhyltan secured their first league title in their second season after a 5-0 win against porto.10 and got promoted to Divison V. Before the start of the season they bought Julio Aulestia, an experienced defenseman, Eivind Sedeniussen left the team and was replaced by Jesper Jensen. The team only won 2 games in their first but short session in Division V and was relegated to Division VI prior to season 51 but the following season they were promoted once again to Division V, where they would spend the next 3 years.

Sälhyltan managed to win Division V for the first time in season 55, striker Jürgen Dollinger also broke a new club record for most goals scored in a season (23, although Henrik Adolfsson later tied this record in season 58) and also scored 3 hattricks (like the season before), although they lost their qualifying match for Division IV and stayed in the same league the next season.

Forward Henrik Adolfsson joined the team early on in Season 58 forming a strong forward pair along with Kalle Ljungén. Sälhyltan were leaders in their division for a long time but finished 2nd after a weak finish when they lost against Ellene Panthers and tied against MILF FF. Dario De Bettio left the club after season 58, he played 10 seasons in the club and 134 games.

The club came extremely close to winning Division V in season 60 when they finished on the same points and goal difference as the winners AYREON FC, in their last game of the season Sälhyltan won by 6-2 but they were up with 6-1 just 5 minutes from the end of the match so if they hadn't let that last goal in they would've won. Nevertheless, they advanced to Division IV the following season after 3 years in the same division, then won Div. IV the following season in a suprising upset. The wingback Renátó Debreczeni who played for the club the first 2 seasons returned prior to the start of season 63. Their first season in Division III didn't end so well, last place with only 10 points and the club saw themselved being relegated down to Division IV but got promoted once again after 7 seasons.

In season 74 the team managed to win the Division III league title for the first time ever under the guidance of new trainer Lauri Ruus.

Logos through the years

The current logo of Sälhyltan is a modified version of their original logo and has been used since season 74.

Season-by-season record

Season	League	Cup	Special Notes
93	? in IV.151	Round ?
92	3rd in IV.151	Round 5
91	4th in IV.151	Round 1
90	1st in V.265	Round 1	Promoted to Div. IV
89	5th in V.265	Round 2
88	1st in V.265	Round 1	Lost qualifying match for Div. IV
87	4th in V.265	Round 3
86	3rd in V.265	Round 2
85	3rd in V.265	Round 1
84	3rd in V.265	Round 1
83	3rd in V.265	Round 1
82	7th in V.265	Round 1
81	7th in V.265	Round 1
80	2nd in V.265	Round 2
79	1st in V.265	Round 2
78	7th in IV.194	Round 3	Relegated to Div. V
77	3rd in IV.194	Round 4
76	7th in III.54	Round 4	Relegated to Div. IV
75	2nd in III.54	Round 4
74	1st in III.54	Round 2	Lost qualifying match for Div. II
73	2nd in III.54	Round 7
72	6th in III.54	Round 3	Won qualifying match for Div. III
71	5th in III.54	Round 3	Won qualifying match for Div. III
70	1st in IV.56	Round 3	Promoted to Div. III
69	2nd in IV.56	Round 6
68	1st in IV.56	Round 2	Lost qualifying match for Div. III
67	4th in IV.56	Round 4
66	2nd in IV.56	Round 4
65	5th in IV.56	Round 2	Won qualifying match for Div. IV
64	2nd in IV.56	Round 2
63	8th in III.38	Round 5	Relegated to Div. IV
62	1st in IV.8	Round 4	Promoted to Div. III
61	1st in V.872	Round 3	Promoted to Div. IV
60	2nd in V.872	Round 4
59	2nd in V.872	Round 2
58	2nd in V.872	Round 1
57	4th in V.872	Round 3
56	3rd in V.872	Round 4
55	1st in V.872	Round 2	Lost qualifying match for Div. IV
54	3rd in V.872	Round 2
53	5th in V.872	Round 1
52	5th in V.872	Round 2
51	1st in VI.838	Round 1	Promoted to Div. V
50	8th in V.733	Round 1	Relegated to Div. VI
49	1st in VI.400	Round 1	Promoted to Div. V
48	3rd in VI.400	Round 1

Players

• Only competitive games are counted

Nat.	Player	Age	Position	Games	Goals	Assists	Hattricks	NT	U20	Year	Season
	Tomi Osenius	28	GK	186	0	0	0	0	0	2022	82
	Mikko Seiro	25	D/IM	131	16	6	0	0	0	2023	84
	Torbjørn Dal	27	WB/W	130	15	15	0	0	0	2023	85
	Kristian Keeney	27	WB/W	125	28	9	0	0	0	2023	85
	Ghanem Azzam	25	IM/D	127	17	2	0	0	0	2023	85
	Mika Alakoskela	20	IM	51	11	5	0	0	0	2024	89
	Patrik Nesskog	25	IM/F	73	37	8	0	0	0	2024	89
	Anders Granbeck	25	W	67	24	14	0	0	0	2024	89
	Lars-Olov Selmo	24	W	69	19	17	0	0	0	2024	89
	Joakim Halskov	34	F	48	41	11	2	0	0	2024	89
	Damián Alejandro Rombola	37	F	0	0	0	0	0	0	2025	93

• Captain: Lars-Olov Selmo

Notable players

• Most goals: Henrik Adolfsson, 221 goals (58-74)
• Most assists: Lars-Olov Selmo, 17 assists (89-present)
• Most games: Gilbert Dang, 240 games (60-73)
• Captained games: Gilbert Dang, 204 games (60-73)
• Most clean sheets: Tomi Osenius, 77 clean sheets (82-present)
• Man of the match: Tomi Osenius, 124 games (82-present)

Players with experience from national teams

• Brandon Carter, Wales: 13 games for senior team, 4 games for junior team (57)
• Kade Hanson, Oceania: 13 games for junior team (60)
• Gilbert Dang, Cameroon: 2 games for senior team, 18 games for junior team (60-73)
• Gordon Bocking, England: 14 games for junior team (78-80)

Former captains

• Elof Stridén (48)
• Renátó Debreczeni (49)
• Julio Aulestia (50-51)
• Henri Vainiotalo (52)
• Ugo Guillemot (53-54)
• Jürgen Dollinger (55)
• Ingmar Pecker (56)
• Karl Ståhlander (57)
• Per Silverflod (58-59)
• Gilbert Dang (60-73)
• Finn Gillkvist (74-76)
• Balder Grenstedt (77-80)
• Dan Fransson (81)
• Teofil Wedgård (82-84)
• Tomi Osenius (85-92)

Non-playing staff

Coach

• Bengt Gillkvist (88-present)

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Former coaches

• Patrik Österlind (48-49)
• Hayati Yaşar Yaldız (49-54)
• Ugo Guillemot (55-58)
• Sven Hansson (59-63)
• Rufus Renmo (64-66)
• Renátó Debreczeni (67-68)
• Peter Pettersson (68-73)
• Lauri Ruus (74-88)

Hall of Fame

	Gilbert Dang
	First day with club	2015-10-15
	Current occupation	Assistant Coach
	Was inducted in the Hall of Fame at age 52 in June 10, 2025.

	Henrik Adolfsson
	First day with club	2015-03-22
	Current occupation	Sales Manager
	Was inducted in the Hall of Fame at age 39 in May 18, 2020.

	Rickard Hansson
	First day with club	2013-04-28
	Current occupation	Referee
	Was inducted in the Hall of Fame at age 38 in July 28, 2019.

	Karl Ståhlander
	First day with club	2013-02-14
	Current occupation	Secretary
	Was inducted in the Hall of Fame at age 36 in July 26, 2018.

	Bengt Gillkvist
	First day with club	2012-02-19
	Current occupation	Coach
	Was inducted in the Hall of Fame at age 43 in March 25, 2018.

External Links

• IFK Sälhyltan @ htev.org
• IFK Sälhyltan @ Maptrick.org
• Export team data with HT-Mess @ ht-mess.webdizainers.lv