2016 Malmö FF season

Malmö FF
2016 season
Chairman	Håkan Jeppsson
Head coach	Allan Kuhn
Stadium	Stadion
Allsvenskan	1st
2015–16 Svenska Cupen	Runners-up
2016–17 Svenska Cupen	Round 2
Top goalscorer	League: Vidar Örn Kjartansson (14); All: Vidar Örn Kjartansson (17)
Highest home attendance	22,302 vs. BK Häcken; (5 May 2016, Svenska Cupen)
Lowest home attendance	3,625 vs. IK Sirius; (20 February 2016, Svenska Cupen)
Average home league attendance	17,841; (in Allsvenskan); 15,898; (in all competitions)
Home colours	Away colours
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The 2016 season was Malmö FF's 105th in existence, their 81st season in Allsvenskan and their 16th consecutive season in the league. They competed in Allsvenskan where they finished first, the 2015–16 Svenska Cupen where they finished as runners-up, and the 2016–17 Svenska Cupen where they were knocked out in round two. The season began with the group stage of Svenska Cupen on 20 February, league play started on 2 April and the season concluded with the last league match on 6 November.

The club appointed Allan Kuhn as new head coach on 8 January after Åge Hareide left to coach the Denmark national football team. Despite winning the league title in his first season, Kuhn was sacked by the club on 19 November. For the first time since the 2012 season, Malmö FF only competed in domestic competitions after failing to qualify for Europe in the previous season. On the domestic stage, Malmö FF won their 19th Swedish championship after winning the league title again after a one-year wait. The club also reached their first Svenska Cupen final since 1996 but ultimately finished as runners-up after losing on penalties to BK Häcken, having been 2–0 up at half-time. For the first time since the cup changed format, Malmö FF failed to qualify for next season's group-stage after losing to tier three club Landskrona BoIS in the second round of qualifications.

Players

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	SWE	Johan Wiland
2	DF	SWE	Pa Konate
3	DF	SWE	Anton Tinnerholm
4	DF	SWE	Behrang Safari
5	MF	SWE	Erdal Rakip
6	MF	SWE	Oscar Lewicki
7	MF	DEN	Anders Christiansen
8	MF	GHA	Enoch Kofi Adu
9	FW	SWE	Markus Rosenberg (captain)
10	MF	NOR	Magnus Wolff Eikrem
11	FW	SWE	Alexander Jeremejeff
13	DF	PER	Yoshimar Yotún


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
14	MF	SWE	Erik Andersson
17	DF	SWE	Rasmus Bengtsson
21	DF	ISL	Kári Árnason (vice captain)
22	MF	SWE	Tobias Sana
23	MF	NOR	Jo Inge Berget
24	FW	ISL	Vidar Örn Kjartansson
26	DF	NOR	Andreas Vindheim
29	GK	SWE	Fredrik Andersson
30	GK	SWE	Marko Johansson
31	DF	SWE	Franz Brorsson
32	MF	SWE	Mattias Svanberg

Players in/out

In

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
24	FW	Vidar Örn Kjartansson	25	Jiangsu Suning	Transfer	Winter	2018	(~ 3.6M SEK)	mff.se
7	MF	Anders Christiansen	25	Chievo	Transfer	Winter	2018	Undisclosed	mff.se
4	DF	Behrang Safari	31	Basel	End of contract	Summer	2020	Free	mff.se
11	FW	Alexander Jeremejeff	22	BK Häcken	Transfer	Summer	2019	Undisclosed	mff.se

Out

N	Pos.	Name	Age	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
22	FW	Pawel Cibicki	21	Jönköpings Södra IF	Loan	Winter	—	mff.se
5	DF	Johan Hammar	21	Örgryte IS	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed	mff.se
8	FW	Benjamin Fadi	20	Karlskrona	End of contract	Winter	Free	sydsvenskan.se
11	FW	Agon Mehmeti	26	Stabæk	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed	mff.se
18	MF	Piotr Johansson	21	Östersunds FK	Loan	Summer	—	mff.se
10	FW	Guillermo Molins	27	Beijing Renhe	End of contract	Summer	Free	mff.se
20	MF	Vladimir Rodic	22	Kardemir Karabükspor	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	mff.se
25	DF	Felipe Carvalho	22	Falkenbergs FF	Loan	Summer	—	mff.se
24	FW	Vidar Örn Kjartansson	26	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Transfer	Summer	(~ 41.0M SEK)^[1]	mff.se

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Allsvenskan	N/A	—	Winner	2 April 2016	6 November 2016
2015–16 Svenska Cupen	Round 2	—	Runners-up	8 November 2015	5 May 2016
2016–17 Svenska Cupen	Round 2	—	Round Two	25 August 2016	25 August 2016

Source: Competitions

Allsvenskan

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Malmö FF (C)	30	21	3	6	60	26	+34	66	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	AIK	30	17	9	4	52	26	+26	60	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
3	IFK Norrköping	30	18	6	6	59	37	+22	60	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
4	IFK Göteborg	30	14	8	8	56	47	+9	50
5	IF Elfsborg	30	13	9	8	58	38	+20	48

Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off
(Note: Play-off is only played if need to decide champion, teams for relegation or UEFA competition and will be played on a neutral ground).
(C) Champions

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	21	3	6	60	26	+34	66	12	1	2	30	9	+21	9	2	4	30	17	+13

Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W	L	L	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	L	W	L	W
Position	1	7	12	8	5	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Source: see below
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

2 April 2016 1	Malmö FF	3–1	IFK Norrköping	Malmö
13:00	Christiansen 44' Berget 76' (pen.) Rakip 90+2'	Report	Nyman 16'	Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 21,085 Referee: Stefan Johannesson

6 April 2016 2	Jönköpings Södra IF	3–2	Malmö FF	Jönköping
18:30	Smylie 47' Cibicki 26', 63'	Report	Bengtsson 4' Berget 78'	Stadium: Stadsparksvallen Attendance: 6,321 Referee: Andreas Ekberg

11 April 2016 3	Malmö FF	1–2	GIF Sundsvall	Malmö
19:00	Molins 40'	Report	Sonko Sundberg 12' Hasani 86'	Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 13,747 Referee: Johan Hamlin

18 April 2016 4	IF Elfsborg	0–1	Malmö FF	Borås
19:00		Report	Rosenberg 78'	Stadium: Borås Arena Attendance: 8,512 Referee: Martin Strömbergsson

24 April 2016 5	Malmö FF	1–0	Djurgårdens IF	Malmö
15:00	Carvalho 62'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 18,734 Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim

27 April 2016 6	IFK Göteborg	0–3	Malmö FF	Gothenburg
18:30		Report	awarded win due to Tobias Sana was hit by a banger.	Stadium: Gamla Ullevi Attendance: 15,748 Referee: Jonas Eriksson

1 May 2016 7	Malmö FF	3–0	BK Häcken	Malmö
17:30	Kjartansson 34', 38', 66'			Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 15,479 Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson

8 May 2016 8	Helsingborgs IF	2–1	Malmö FF	Helsingborg
15:00	Larsson 4' Rusike 81'	Report	Eikrem 90 + 4'	Stadium: Olympia Attendance: 11,065 Referee: Martin Strömbergsson

14 May 2016 9	Malmö FF	3–0	Gefle IF	Malmö
16:00	Molins 49', 58' Rodić 76'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 13,801 Referee: Magnus Lindgren

18 May 2016 10	Hammarby IF	2–3	Malmö FF	Stockholm
18:30	Rômulo 3' Israelsson 75'	Report	Kjartansson 10' Christiansen 43' Eikrem 73'	Stadium: Tele2 Arena Attendance: 23,617 Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim

23 May 2016 11	Malmö FF	2–0	Falkenbergs FF	Malmö
19:00	Rosenberg 7' Kjartansson 12'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 15,876 Referee: Martin Strömbergsson

28 May 2016 12	Östersunds FK	1–4	Malmö FF	Östersund
16:00	Dyer 63'	Report	Rosenberg 3' Kjartansson 6', 65', 90 + 4'	Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena Attendance: 7,739 Referee: Johan Krantz

11 July 2016 13	Malmö FF	1–0	Örebro SK	Malmö
19:00	Berget 52'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 17,526 Referee: Bojan Pandzic

17 July 2016 14	AIK	1–1	Malmö FF	Solna
17:30	Avdić 48'	Report	Kjartansson 15'	Stadium: Friends Arena Attendance: 15,847 Referee: Martin Strömbergsson

23 July 2016 15	Malmö FF	1–1	Kalmar FF	Malmö
16:00	Kjartansson 90'	Report	V. Elm 44'	Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 14,887 Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson

1 August 2016 16	Örebro SK	0–3	Malmö FF	Örebro
19:00		Report	Kjartansson 28', 53' Rosenberg 56'	Stadium: Behrn Arena Attendance: 9,047 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson

7 August 2016 17	Malmö FF	2–0	AIK	Malmö
13:00	Eikrem 43' Christiansen 90 + 3'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 20,150 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson

14 August 2016 18	Kalmar FF	1–1	Malmö FF	Kalmar
15:00	Ring 73'	Report	Christiansen 80'	Stadium: Guldfågeln Arena Attendance: 7,212 Referee: Bojan Pandzic

22 August 2016 19	Malmö FF	4–1	Jönköpings Södra IF	Malmö
19:00	Bengtsson 23' Kjartansson 25' Christiansen 31' Jeremejeff 86'	Report	Cala 90 + 3'	Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 16,533 Referee: Stefan Johannesson

28 August 2016 20	GIF Sundsvall	0–1	Malmö FF	Sundsvall
17:30		Report	Kjartansson 64'	Stadium: Norrporten Arena Attendance: 4,116 Referee: Per Melin

12 September 2016 21	Malmö FF	3–1	IFK Göteborg	Malmö
19:00	Rosenberg 15', 79' Jeremejeff 77'	Report	Jeremejeff 67' (o.g.)	Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 21,273 Referee: Stefan Johannesson

18 September 2016 22	Djurgårdens IF	3–1	Malmö FF	Stockholm
17:30	Eriksson 7' Olunga 16', 60'	Report	Eikrem 20'	Stadium: Tele2 Arena Attendance: 15,370 Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim

22 September 2016 23	Malmö FF	1–0	IF Elfsborg	Malmö
19:00	Rakip 90 + 1'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 16,597 Referee: Glenn Nyberg

25 September 2016 24	Malmö FF	2–0	Helsingborgs IF	Malmö
17:30	Christiansen 22' Svanberg 90 + 5'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 19,918 Referee: Martin Strömbergsson

1 October 2016 25	BK Häcken	2–4	Malmö FF	Gothenburg
16:00	Owoeri 15' Farnerud 19'	Report	Adu 13' Berget 34' Jeremejeff 61' Sana 83'	Stadium: Bravida Arena Attendance: 4,752 Referee: Glenn Nyberg

16 October 2016 26	IFK Norrköping	1–2	Malmö FF	Norrköping
15:00	Bärkroth 48'	Report	Árnason 29' Jeremejeff 69'	Stadium: Nya Parken Attendance: 15,940 Referee: Stefan Johannesson

22 October 2016 27	Malmö FF	0–3	Östersunds FK	Malmö
16:00		Report	Ghoddos 37', 87' Bachirou 51'	Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 20,297 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson

26 October 2016 28	Falkenbergs FF	0–3	Malmö FF	Falkenberg
19:00		Report	Berget 2' Svanberg 20' Jeremejeff 53'	Stadium: Falkenbergs IP Attendance: 5,120 Referee: Martin Strömbergsson

30 October 2016 29	Gefle IF	1–0	Malmö FF	Gävle
17:30	Williams 72'	Report		Stadium: Gavlevallen Attendance: 3,380 Referee: Glenn Nyberg

6 November 2016 30	Malmö FF	3–0	Hammarby IF	Malmö
15:00	Berget 29' Rosenberg 86', 90'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 21,719 Referee: Stefan Johannesson

Non-competitive

Pre-season

Kickoff times are in UTC+1 unless stated otherwise.

29 January 2016	Malmö FF	1–0	Fremad Amager	Malmö
18:30	Mehmeti 62'	Report		Stadium: Malmö IP Attendance: 1,555

5 February 2016	F.C. Copenhagen	1–0	Malmö FF	Dubai
15:00 UTC+4	Delaney 40'	Report		Stadium: The Sevens Stadium

9 February 2016	Malmö FF	1–1	FC Midtjylland	Dubai
20:00 UTC+4	Rosenberg 60'	Report	27'	Stadium: The Sevens Stadium

14 February 2016	Malmö FF	1–0	Brøndby IF	Malmö
14:00	Berget 83'	Report		Stadium: Malmö IP Attendance: 3,847

23 February 2016	AaB	3–0	Malmö FF	Aalborg
15:00	Jönsson 16' Enevoldsen 21', 57'	Report		Stadium: Aalborg Stadium Attendance: 4,744

25 March 2016	Malmö FF	4–0	HJK Helsinki	Malmö
15:00	Christiansen 14' Rosenberg 22', 31' Carvalho 57'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 1,033 Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson

Mid-season

Kickoff times are in UTC+2 unless stated otherwise.

29 June 2016	Malmö FF	1–0	Odense Boldklub	Malmö
15:00	Kjartansson 77'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 1,461 Referee: Robert Daradic

4 July 2016	Malmö FF	2–0	AGF Aarhus	Malmö
17:00	Kjartansson 61', 64'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 2,561

4 August 2016	Malmö FF	0–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Malmö
19:00		Report	Rodríguez 85'	Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 1,526

Footnotes

^ "Malmö FF fick 41 miljoner för Kjartansson". sydsvenskan.se (in Swedish). 26 October 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.

External links

Official website (in Swedish)

[1] "Malmö FF fick 41 miljoner för Kjartansson". sydsvenskan.se (in Swedish). 26 October 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.

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