Supporters
The official supporter club is called Black & White, and was established 1993, before the upcoming season of Allsvenskan, where Landskrona made a comeback after several years in the lower divisions. Since the building of Landskrona IP in 1924, the singing supporters have always stood on the part of IP called the "English Stand" (in Swedish: Engelska Läktaren).
But in 2006 this was about to change. A group of supporters break loose from the main clique, and began to stand on the Western Stand, built in 2004. Influenced by southern European football cultures, they formed the supporter faction Fanaticos Landskrona, which is now the leading supporter group in Landskrona.
The main rival to Landskrona is Helsingborgs IF. The cities lie very close, and the supporters of the two teams hold a certain grudge against each other, which dates back to the beginning of 20th century. There is also a big rivalry between Landskrona and Malmö FF, which reaches back to the 1940s.
The matches between the teams from Scania (in Swedish called Skånederbyn) are some of the most interesting in Swedish football, and is always seen by a big number of spectators.
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“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)