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Sports in southern Sweden is dominated by football.

Over the years the city's best football team has been Malmö FF who play in the top level Allsvenskan.

They had their most successful periods in the 1970s and 1980s, when they won the league several times.

In 1979, they advanced to the final of the European Cup defeating AS Monaco, Dynamo Kiew, Wisla Krakow and Austria Vienna but lost in the final at the Munich Olympic Stadium against Nottingham Forest by a single goal just before half time scored by Trevor Francis.

To date, they are the only Swedish football club to have reached the final of the competition.

Malmö FF is the club where Zlatan Ibrahimović began his professional football career.

A second football team, IFK Malmö played in Sweden's top flight for about 20 years and the club's quarterfinal in the European Cup is the club's greatest achievement in its history.

Today, the club resides in the sixth tier of the Swedish league system.

Examples of other Malmö based clubs are IF Limhamn Bunkeflo and FC Rosengård.

Both in Division 1 South, the third tier.

Held in Sweden, Malmö was one of the four cities to host the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship and hosted the final.