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{{Short description|Danish football club}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{about|the association football team|the handball team|KIF Kolding}}
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| clubname = Kolding IF
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| fullname = Kolding Idræts Forening
| nickname = ''De blå-hvide'' (The blue-whites)
| founded = {{Start date and age|df=y|1895}}, as Kolding Fodsports Klub
| ground = [[Kolding Stadion|Autocentralen Park]],<br />[[Kolding]]
| capacity = 10,000 (2,197 seated)
| chairman = Claus Holm-Søberg
| manager = [[Albert Rudé]]
| league = [[Danish 1st Division|1st Division]]
| season = [[2023–24 Danish 1st Division|2023–24]]
| position = [[Danish 1st Division|1st Division]], 3rd of 12
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'''Kolding Idræts Forening''' is an [[association football]] club based in [[Kolding]], Denmark. The team competes in the [[Danish 1st Division]], the second tier of the [[Danish football league system]], after getting promotion at the end of the [[2022–23 Danish 2nd Division|2022–23 season]]. Founded in 1895, Kolding IF played in the top-flight 1982 and 1983 [[Danish 1st Division]] championships.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haslund.info/danmark/dtk/koldif.asp |title=www.haslund.info - Dansk klubfodbold - Kolding IF |access-date=29 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071004232829/http://www.haslund.info/danmark/dtk/koldif.asp |archive-date=4 October 2007 }}</ref> In 2002, they joined forces with [[Kolding Boldklub]], the other major football club in Kolding, to form the cooperative [[Kolding FC]] first team. The joint club merged with [[Vejle Boldklub]] in 2011 to form [[Vejle Boldklub Kolding]]. This merger was dissolved in 2013 and Kolding IF reemerged.

==Current squad==
{{updated|4 February 2025}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kolding-if.dk/sport/herrer/truppen-og-stab/|title = Truppen}}</ref>
{{Fs start}}
{{fs player|no= 1|nat=DEN|name=Christoffer Petersen|pos=GK}}
{{fs player|no= 2|nat=DEN|name=Jakob Vadstrup|pos=DF}}
{{fs player|no= 3|nat=DEN|name=Albert Nørager|pos=DF}}
{{fs player|no= 4|nat=DEN|name=[[Christian Vestergaard]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no= 5|nat=ISL|name=[[Ari Leifsson]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no= 6|nat=DEN|name=Sebastian Sommer|pos=MF}}
{{fs player|no= 7|nat=DEN|name=Sami Jalal Karchoud|pos=MF}}
{{fs player|no= 8|nat=NOR|name=Mats Pedersen|pos=MF}}
{{fs player|no=10|nat=FRO|name=[[Meinhard Olsen|Meinhard Egilsson Olsen]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=11|nat=DEN|name=Abdoulie Njai|pos=FW}}
{{fs player|no=12|nat=DEN|name=Frederik Møller|pos=MF}}
{{fs player|no=13|nat=DEN|name=Malthe Bøndergaard|pos=DF}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=14|nat=DEN|name=Christoffer Palm|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=15|nat=DEN|name=[[Joachim Rothmann]]|pos=FW}}
{{fs player|no=16|nat=DEN|name=Mads Bager|pos=DF}}
{{fs player|no=17|nat=CAF|name=[[Sterling Yatéké]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=18|nat=DEN|name=Villads Westh|pos=MF}}
{{fs player|no=19|nat=DEN|name=Casper Holmelund|pos=FW}}
{{fs player|no=20|nat=DEN|name=Magnus Saaby|pos=MF}}
{{fs player|no=22|nat=DEN|name=Isak Tånnander|pos=MF}}
{{fs player|no=23|nat=DEN|name=Niels Morberg|pos=MF}}
{{fs player|no=24|nat=DEN|name=Casper Jørgensen|pos=MF}}
{{fs player|no=27|nat=UKR|name=Kyrylo Shushman|pos=GK}}
{{fs player|no=30|nat=DEN|name=[[Luka Callø]]|pos=DF|other=<small>on loan from [[Aarhus Gymnastikforening|AGF]]</small>}}
{{fs player|no=33|nat=NGA|name=[[Jamiu Musbaudeen]]|pos=MF|other=on loan from [[C.D. Mafra|Mafra]]}}
{{fs player|no=99|nat=GER|name=[[Lennart Moser]]|pos=GK}}
{{Fs end}}

===Youth players in use 2024-25===
{{Fs start}}
{{fs player|no=30|nat=DEN|name=Valdemar Philip|pos=DF}}
{{Fs end}}

===Out on loan===
{{Fs start}}
{{fs player|no=— |nat=DEN|name=Nicolai Bossen|pos=MF|other=at [[IF Lyseng]] until 30 June 2025}}
{{fs mid}}
{{fs player|no=— |nat=FIN|name=[[Momodou Sarr (footballer)|Momodou Sarr]]|pos=FW|other=at [[FC Inter Turku|Inter Turku]] until 31 December 2025}}
{{Fs end}}

==Noted players==
* 1950s–60s: [[Jørgen Lildballe]] (1955), holds the record for most first team matches&nbsp;– 386.
* 1980s: [[Jan Mølby]] (1981), played on the [[Denmark national football team|Danish national team]], and went to European top clubs afterwards.

==Achievements==
*'''[[Danish 2nd Division]]'''
**'''Winners (1):''' [[2022–23 Danish 2nd Division|2022–23]]
*'''Jutland Championships'''
**'''Winners (2):''' 1930–31, 1935–36
**''Runners-up (6):'' 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1942
*'''Jutland Cup'''
**''Runners-up (1):'' 1939–40<ref>{{in lang|da}} http://www.jyskfodboldhistorie.dk/pdf/603404.pdf&nbsp;– {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929060147/http://www.jyskfodboldhistorie.dk/pdf/603404.pdf |date=29 September 2007 }} only achievements before 1950 are noted</ref>

==See also==
*[[Kolding FC]]
*[[Kolding Boldklub]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{in lang|da}} [http://www.kif-fodbold.dk/ Official site]

{{Danish 1st Division}}

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[[Category:Football clubs in Denmark]]
[[Category:Sport in Kolding]]
[[Category:Association football clubs established in 1895]]
[[Category:1895 establishments in Denmark]]