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IF Fram

football club in Åland, Finland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ5970889 ↗
Source-derived summary

IF Fram is a football club located in Saltvik in Åland. They no longer participate in the Finnish football league system but take part in the Swedish football league system.

Background

Idrottsföreningen Fram are based in the municipality of Saltvik in Åland and were formed in 1922. The club currently specialises in football, athletics, skiing, hockey and table tennis.

In recent years IF Fram has participated in the lower divisions of the Swedish football league system. The club currently plays in Division 6 Uppland Norra which is the eighth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Rangsby Stadium in Saltvik.

IF Fram is affiliated to the Ålands Fotbollförbund.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “IF Fram” is football club in Åland, Finland. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fram, football and club, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1922—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1922. For this dossier, Fram, football and club is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “football club in Åland, Finland” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5970889. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1922.

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This entry incorporates text from “IF Fram” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.