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Hammarby Idrottsförening ("Hammarby Sports Club"), commonly known as Hammarby IF or simply Hammarby ( or, especially locally, ), is a Sweden sports club located in Stockholm, with a number of member organizations active in a variety of different sports.
It was founded in 1889 as Hammarby Roddförening ("Hammarby Rowing Association"), but by 1897 the club had diversified and was participating in different sports, leading to the renaming to Hammarby IF.
In 1999, the club was reorganized into a legal format referred to in Swedish as an alliansförening ("alliance association"), with each of the club's departments becoming a separate legal entity cooperating under the "Hammarby IF" umbrella.
As of 2020, the club had a record high number of 22,746 active members in all of its sections.
By 1897, the club had diversified into different sports following demands from its members, with the first other being athletics, and it was renamed Hammarby Idrottsförening ("Hammarby Sports Club"), or Hammarby IF for short.Persson, p. 15-17 The new multi-sport club was officially established on 7 March said year, with Carl Julius Sundholm taking the inaugural chairman position.
The association launched its first team sport in 1905, the section Hammarby IF Bandy, thus becoming one of the first bandy clubs in Sweden. The first nationwide league was, however, not held until 1930, and the club has not dropped below either the highest or second highest division since.
In 1919, Hammarby IF Boxning was founded, who formed the Swedish Boxing Association together with nine other clubs. Gunnar Berggren finished third in the lightweight class at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, making him the only Hammarby athlete that has ever won an Olympic medal in an individual sport. By 1930, the boxing department found themselves in financial difficulties, after arranging a loss-making gala at Cirkus, and was dissolved.
The club started playing ice hockey in 1921, with their team being made up by a group of bandy players during the first matches. Hammarby IF Hockey would soon position itself as a giant in the early history of the sport in the country, playing in the top league from its inaugural season in 1922 until 1957. During that period, they were crowned domestic champions eight times (in 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1942, 1943, 1945, and 1951).
Famous cyclist Sven Johansson joined Hammarby IF in 1937. Throughout his career, he won 11 individual Swedish Championship titles, and an additional 13 at club level.
In 1939, Hammarby IF Handboll was originally founded. The handball section would cease its operation in the 1950s, but was re-established in 1970 after a merger with local club Lundens BK.
In 1970, Hammarby IF Damfotboll was established, making the club one of the pioneers in Swedish women's football, and it was crowned domestic champions in 1985. Until its first relegation from the top tier in 2011, the club was one of only two teams that had played all 24 seasons in Damallsvenskan since the competition's foundation in 1988.
The first Midnattsloppet run was held in Södermalm in Stockholm in 1982, and has since been hosted annually by Hammarby IF. The number of participants varies between 20,000 and 40,000, who run 10 kilometres in the night time, but the number of spectators is usually much greater.
The club won its first Swedish championship in football, the biggest domestic sport, in 2001. The gold medal was celebrated at Medborgarplatsen in front of some 20,000 supporters in the square. Hammarby won its first Svenska Cupen title in 2021, they played the final versus BK Häcken at their home venue Tele2 Arena. The game was tied after full time and ended up in a penalty shootout, where Hammarby won 5-4.
Hammarby IF won three consecutive Swedish championships in handball from 2006 to 2008, breaking the dominance of clubs from southern and western Götaland that had won all domestic titles since 1978.
In 2010, Hammarby IF also won their first Swedish championship in bandy, after ending as runners-up in six seasons of the previous decade. They also won the gold medal in 2013, through a final that was played at Friends Arena in front of a record crowd of 38,474.
The club changed from blue pants to black in the 1960s. When the renowned footballer Lennart Skoglund rejoined Hammarby in 1964, he donated the club a set of black shorts because he thought the team's blue shorts looked awful.
In 1978, 60 years after the merger with Johanneshof, Hammarby changed its home colours from black and yellow to white shirts, green shorts and white socks.
| Arm wrestling | Hammarby IF Armbrytarförening | 2014 | 2014 | |
| Athletics | Hammarby IF Friidrottsförening | 1897 | 1897 | |
| Bandy | Hammarby IF Bandy | 1905 | 1905 | Zinkensdamms IP |
| Basketball | Hammarby IF Basket | 1975 | 2015 | Farstahallen |
| Boules | Hammarby IF Bouleförening | 2002 | 2002 | |
| Bowling | Hammarby IF Bowlingförening | 1938 | 1938 | Brännkyrka Bowlingcenter |
| Boxing | Hammarby IF Boxningsförening | 1919 | 1969 | |
| Floorball | Hammarby IF Innebandy | 1993 | 1993 | Sjöstadshallen |
| Football | Hammarby Fotboll (men) Hammarby IF Fotbollförening (women) | 1915 1970 | 1915 1970 | Tele2 Arena Hammarby IP |
| Futsal | Hammarby IF Futsal | 2016 | 2016 | Eriksdalshallen |
| Goalball | Hammarby IF Goalbollförening | 2000 | 2000 | |
| Golf | Hammarby Golfklubb | 2019 | 2020 | Björkhagens GK |
| Team handball | Hammarby IF Handboll | 1939 | 1939 | Eriksdalshallen |
| Ice hockey | Hammarby Hockey | 2008 | 2013 | SDC-hallen |
| Orienteering | Hammarby IF Orienteringsförening | 1922 | 1922 | |
| Rowing | Hammarby IF Roddförening | 1889 | 1889 | |
| Rugby union | Hammarby IF Rugby | 2000 | 2000 | |
| Cycle speedway | Hammarby Speedway | 2003 | 2003 | |
| Skiing | Hammarby IF Skidförening | 1937 | 1937 | |
| Table tennis | Hammarby IF Bordtennisförening | 1948 | 2010 |
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