* Kujtim Bala Kosovar football player, playing for Halmstads BK

Though unrelated, the two connected immediately and posed a serious threat to any defense they encountered, Teteh for example firing a memorable four goal salvo against Halmstads BK in a 4-0 win and scoring 15 goals in 17 appearances.

His parents relented and took him to Halmstads BK where he played on the youth team under Olle Eriksson.

In 1989, at the age of 12, Ljungberg had convinced Halmstads BK to move him from p12 to p14 which was against Halmstad's policies at the time.

The club's first participation in the European club tournaments was also promising, with Litex eliminating the Swedish Halmstads BK ( 2: 0 and 1: 2 ) and reaching the second qualifying round ( but being knocked out by Russian powerhouse Spartak Moscow ).

* Halmstads BK, Swedish football club

The club signed star manager Roy Hodgson, who in the last few years had won two gold medals to Halmstads BK and new players were brought in.

The 2001 season was only marginally better with an 8th place, although the club scored the second highest number of goals in the league, after Halmstads BK, entire 48 goals, but the club also conceded 44 balls.

Halmstads BK won the Bernhard Aronssons vandringspris after defeating IS Halmia in 1922 ; the club also won a series of tournaments in Jönköping, Malmö and Ängelholm, however the district championship was lost to Varberg this year.

Halmstads BK was able to win Sydsvenskan in 1926 and was to play qualifying matches against IF Elfsborg to reached Allsvenskan, however Elfsborg proved to be too strong and won 2 – 1 after three matches.

In 1929 Halmstads BK celebrated 15 years with a match against SpVgg Sülz from Cologne, Germany ; 1600 people watched the game in heavy rain, SpVgg Sülz won 5 – 2, the club also failed to win Division 2 Söder after a hard race with Stattena IF and Redbergslids IK, ending up in third place.

A chart showing the progress of Halmstads BK through the swedish football league system.

Halmstads BK started the next decade with ending up in 4th place in the league, a visit by CD Europa did pull a large audience, the Spanish team won with 6-5.

IS Halmia won the league in 1932 and in a campaign in the local newspapers tried to get the better Halmstads BK players to join the team, this failed however, Halmstads BK defeated IS Halmia in a charity match for the city's unemployed, the swimmers also left the club and founded SK Laxen.

Under the leadership of playing manager Gunnar Olsson Halmstads BK was able to reach Division 1, the top league at the time, in 1933 for the first time in the clubs history, this after defeating BK Drott and Helsingborgs IF for the league title and then defeating Krokslätts FF with 4-0 totally.

Halmstads BK left the top league in 1936 after ending up second last, the club would have been able to stay if they had won over IK Sleipner in the last game, however the team lost with 2-4.

1938 was a middle year for Halmstads BK as they ended up in 6th position at the end of the season, English club Sheffield United played a friendly against the club and won with 5-2.

Due to the ongoing Second World War Sweden focused more on military readiness in case of an invasion than on sport, this led to Halmstads BK being forced to use 29 different players during the season and the result came thereafter as the club ended up in 3rd place behind Malmö BI and winners IS Halmia.

Halmstads BK was the superior team in 1941 Division 2 but failed to defeat GAIS in the qualify for Division 1.

Halmstads BK won Division 2 after hard competition with local rivals IS Halmia in 1942 and in the qualify the club was able to defeat Lundby IF with 3-2.

Halmstads BK returned to Division 1 after only 1 season in Division 2, the club crushed Örgryte IS with 6-1 in the 1947 qualify, the team also played their first match outside Sweden this year, they defeated Helsingør IF with 8-2 and the youth squad won the youth championship again after defeating Djurgårdens IF with 2-1.

On 6 March 1914, the club was allowed entrance to Riksidrottsförbundet ; the following year they played in their first competition, Pokalserien, a local tournament in which they faced IS Halmia and Halmstads Kamraterna ; the club ended up last with 2 points and 5-16 in goal difference, in 1916 the same result was seen again, but this time the club only managed to score 1 goal totally.

In 1917 the club was able to defeat Halmstads Kamraterna twice and end up in second place behind IS Halmia ; the same year athletics was made a part of the club.

In 1921 the club yet again won the championship, this time by defeating IS Halmia, the club also won Hallandspostens pokal after defeating Halmstads IF 5 – 0, a women's section was added to the athletics part of the club.

1953 saw a change in the league system and Halmstads BK was lucky as the club was able to stay only because of better goal difference as 6 teams was relegated.

Things changed in 1954 as Halmstads BK dominated the new league and won promotion with 12 points ahead of IK Sleipner in second place, then made yet again a trip south, this time to North Africa and Spain, bowling was added to the club.

Halmstads BK reached their best position so far in 1954-55 season as the club ended up in 2nd place, winning Stora Silvret ( eng: The Big Silver ), then during 1955-56 season, Halmstads BK biggest victory was recorded as they club crushed Västerås SK with 9-0, Östen Ståhl scored 6 goals in the match, Sylve Bengtsson also became the leagues top goal scorer with 22 goals, Halmstads BK ended in 7th position.

In 1976 Halmstads BK hired Roy Hodgson as new manager and success came directly as the club went on and won Allsvenskan for the first time ever, the title was won in the second last game against IFK Norrköping, the last match against Östers IF was seen by 16000 people cheering for the team.

Halmstads BK ended up in 8th place in 1977 season and Dynamo Dresden proved too strong in the first round of European Cup, yet again the club ended in 8th place in 1978, Mats Jingblad was moved up from the clubs youth system this year.

In 1952 the club yet again ended up in 2nd place, the club also went on a trip, first to Germany, where they played a series of matches, and then to the French Riviera where the club played a game and enjoyed the weather and beach, they then returned home and played a game against Brazilian team Corinthians with a mixed team of Halmstads BK and IS Halmia players, the Brazilians won with 10-1, Sylve Bengtsson returned from the 1952 Summer Olympics with a bronze medal.

The 1990s decade started far from promising for the club ; in 1990 season the club ended in 9th place and a new play-off was started in 1991, Halmstads BK just missed the play-off on goal difference to IFK Norrköping, ending up in 7th place and was forced to play relegation play-off against team 8-10 in Allsvenskan and the Division 1 champions, it went poorly and the club was relegated.

A poor start of the 1999 season didn't prevent Halmstads BK from fighting for the league title until the second last match, the club had to be satisfied with 3rd place and Lilla Silvret.

The very same year GAIS got relegated from Allsvenskan for the sixth time, this time due to scoring two goals less than Halmstads BK.

In 1997 he moved from Vardar to Swedish side Halmstads BK, a team that won the Swedish premier league Allsvenskan the same year.

1995 became a hard year for Halmstads BK supporters to forget as they for the first time ever won Svenska Cupen and the club ended up in 3rd place, winning Lilla Silvret, but it was the home match against Parma F. C.

2005 became a bad year for Halmstads BK as they struggled to a 10th place, Gunnar Heidar Thorvaldsson became league top goalscorer with 16 goals, however in Europe things went a bit better as the club managed to qualify for the new group stage in the UEFA Cup after winning on away goal against last year runners-up Sporting Clube de Portugal, however the club failed to take a single point in the group and only scored 1 goal.

They gave their new organization the name Halmstads Bollklubb and chose Axel Winberg as the club's first chairman.

Halmstads BK won their second title in 1979.

In 1997 Halmstads BK celebrated their third championship title after 3-0 in the last game against Ljungskile SK, Mats Lilienberg, now in Halmstads BK, became league top goalscorer with 14 goals, along side Christer Mattiasson, IF Elfsborg, and Dan Sahlin, Örebro SK.

Halmstads BK started the new millennium with taking their fourth Allsvenskan title, they also reached second round in the UEFA Cup after defeating S. L.

However since Örjans Vall is an old stadium, built in 1922, it doesn't meet the present European demands for stadiums, forcing Halmstads BK to play their European games on Olympia, Helsingborg, or at Ullevi, Göteborg.

Halmstads BK rejected the offer and chose to print their own match program, making them currently the only club in the top league with their own match programme.

In 1949 the club reached Allsvenskan for the first time after defeating Halmstads BK in the decisive game of the season ; during this time Swedish leagues were played autumn – spring, on 31 July they played their first game in Allsvenskan against Degerfors IF and lost 2-0, afterward, the later world famous Gunnar Nordahl claimed that he had seen much worse newcomers, also this year, on 4 September Kalmar faced Malmö FF in front of 15 093 people in the audience ; this is still the audience record on Fredriksskans.

* 30 October 2004: Malmö FF wins their 15th title after passing Halmstads BK in the last round of Allsvenskan as they beat IF Elfsborg 1 – 0 while Halmstad, that would have taken the gold with a win, only managed to play 1 – 1 against IFK Göteborg.