GAIS

GAIS
	GAIS
Full name	Göteborgs Atlet- och Idrottssällskap
Nickname(s)	Makrillarna (The Mackerels); Grönsvart (Green-black); Gårdakvarnen (The Gårda Mill)
Founded	11 March 1894
Ground	Gamla Ullevi; (Capacity: 18,416)
Chairman	Jonas Andersson
Head Coach	Stefan Jacobsson
Current League	Ettan Fotboll
2022	Ettan Södra, 1st (Promoted)
Website	Club home page

General

Kit history

Göteborgs Atlet- och Idrottssällskap (meaning Gothenburg's Athletics and Sports Association), commonly referred to as GAIS or Gais, is a Swedish football club based in Gothenburg. The club is affiliated to the Göteborgs Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Gamla Ullevi. Fans also refers to the club as Grönsvart (green-black) or Makrillarna (the Mackerels) because of the traditional shirt colours.

GAIS is one of the oldest football clubs in Sweden. The club was a founding member of Allsvenskan and also the first champions of the league. They have won a total of four national championship titles, five league championship titles and one national cup title. Even though GAIS have played 49 seasons in Allsvenskan they only spent six years in the top division during a 30-year period from 1976 to 2005, with another six seasons of that time spent as low as the third division. The club thus gained the reputation of being a yo-yo club, constantly going up and down through the league system. After their promotion in 2005 the club played seven straight seasons in Allsvenskan which was a feat not achieved since the degradation in 1955. After relegation in 2012 they finished seventh in Superettan in 2013 and has remained there since.