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 .
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. At the time, several sports club existed in the city of Uppsala: IFK Uppsala, IF Thor, IF Heimdal, and Upsala IF. The sports club was founded for athletics, and took up cross-country skiing, bandy and football in 1908. During the first half of the 20th century, the sports club has also practised canoeing, swimming, handball, ice hockey, tennis, wrestling, boxing, and orienteering.
In 1980, the ice hockey department was dissolved. In 1991, the two remaining departments of football and bandy split and choose to act as an using the same name.
In 1999, the floorball club IBK JT 97 joined IK Sirius.
Departments Sport Started Ended Home venue Notes Ref.athletics 1907 discontinued bandyIK Sirius Bandy 1908 Studenternas IP bowling discontinued boxing discontinued canoeing 1917 1929 became KS Ägir cross-country skiing 1908 discontinued floorballIK 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 men's footballIK Sirius Fotboll 1908 Studenternas IP women's footballIK Sirius Fotboll (women) 2017 became IK Uppsala handballIK Sirius Handboll 1936 discontinued ice hockeyIK Sirius Ishockey 1937 1980 swimming discontinued orienteering discontinued tennis discontinued water polo discontinued wrestling discontinued
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