IF Heimer was a Swedish football club located in Lidköping in Lidköping Municipality, Västra Götaland County.
Background IF Heimer was a sports club from Lidköping that was founded by several young men in the town on 18 March 1906.
Since their foundation IF Heimer has participated mainly in the middle divisions of the Swedish football league system. Their best period was in the 1920s including the years 1925 to 1928 when they played in Division 2 Västsvenska which was then the second tier of Swedish football. In 1941 they played a Division 2 promotion qualification match with Skogen before 4,027 spectators but their all time attendance record was the 4,178 people who attended a friendly match against IFK Norrkoping in 1948.
The lowest point for the club was in 1952 when they finished bottom of Division 5 but they subsequently played many years in Division 3 followed by spells in Division 2 over the last two decades. The club currently plays in Division 3 Mellersta Götaland which is the fifth tier of Swedish football. They have played their home matches at the Framnäs IP in Lidköping since 1915. In 2012 Heimer merged with Lidköpings IF to form Lidköpings FK.
IF Heimer was affiliated to the Västergötlands Fotbollförbund.
Season to season SeasonLevelDivisionSectionPositionMovements1993Tier 4 Division 3Mellersta Götaland1stPromoted1994Tier 3Division 2Västra Götaland6th1995Tier 3Division 2Västra Götaland5th1996Tier 3Division 2Västra Götaland10thRelegation Playoffs1997Tier 3Division 2Västra Götaland9th1998Tier 3Division 2Västra Götaland9th1999Tier 3Division 2Västra Götaland5th2000Tier 3Division 2Västra Götaland8th2001Tier 3Division 2Västra Götaland10thRelegation Playoffs2002Tier 3Division 2Västra Götaland11thRelegated2003Tier 4 Division 3Mellersta Götaland3rd2004Tier 4 Division 3Nordöstra Götaland1stPromoted2005Tier 3Division 2Västra Götaland8th2006*Tier 4 Division 2 Mellersta Götaland7th2007Tier 4 Division 2 Mellersta Götaland12th Relegated2008Tier 5 Division 3 Mellersta Götaland9th2009Tier 5 Division 3 Mellersta Götaland3rd2010Tier 5 Division 3 Mellersta Götaland4th * League restructuring in 2006 resulted in a new division being created at Tier 3 and subsequent divisions dropping a level.
Attendances
In recent seasons IF Heimer have had the following average attendances:
SeasonAverage attendanceDivision / SectionLevel2005485 Div 2 Västra Götaland Tier 32006301 Div 2 Mellersta Götaland Tier 42007469 Div 2 Mellersta Götaland Tier 42008300 Div 3 Mellersta Götaland Tier 52009281 Div 3 Mellersta Götaland Tier 52010285 Div 3 Mellersta Götaland Tier 5 * Attendances are provided in the Publikliga sections of the Svenska Fotbollförbundet website.
Footnotes
External links IF Heimer – official website