2012 Malmö FF season

The 2012 season was Malmö FF's 101st in existence, their 77th season in Allsvenskan and their 12th consecutive season in the league. They competed in Allsvenskan where they finished in 3rd position. Malmö FF also participated in one competition in which the club continued playing in for the 2013 season, 2012–13 Svenska Cupen. The season was Rikard Norlings first full season as the club's manager as he joined the club halfway through the 2011 season. Ulrich Vinzents was appointed new club captain as the former captain, Daniel Andersson, announced that he would prioritise his coaching career as one of Malmö FF's three assistant managers. However, injury problems for the club's defender saw Andersson playing ten out of twelve league matches before the break for UEFA Euro 2012 and thus also holding the captaincy, Andersson continued to play sporadically after the summer break. Appointed captain Vinzents was injured in an early stage of the season and Miiko Albornoz was brought into the starting eleven, Albornoz held the position until the end of the season. Due to these circumstances third captain Jiloan Hamad held the captaincy for the majority of the matches throughout the season.

Malmö FF

2012 season
Chairman	Håkan Jeppsson
Manager	Rikard Norling
Stadium	Swedbank Stadion
Allsvenskan	3rd
Top goalscorer	League: Mathias Ranégie (10) All: Mathias Ranégie (16)
Highest home attendance	23,638 (10 May vs. Helsingborgs IF)
Lowest home attendance	10,088 (27 August vs. IFK Norrköping)
Average home league attendance	14,799
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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Summary

Allsvenskan

The competitive league season started on 2 April when Malmö FF played against Gefle IF in a home fixture at Swedbank Stadion, the match ended in a draw 0–0. The spring season lasted until 24 May when Allsvenskan took a break due to the UEFA Euro 2012, Malmö's last match in the league before the break was the away fixture against GIF Sundsvall with resulted in a 1–1 draw. The league resumed play on 2 July when Malmö played at home against AIK where Malmö took and impressive 4–0 victory. The season then continued until early November with Malmö playing their last match of the season against AIK at Råsunda, this match was the last ever Allsvenskan fixture at the stadium before demolition, only two additional matches in the group stage of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League remained for AIK to play at the stadium. The fixture AIK vs Malmö FF was also the very first match held at the stadium in 1937, the last fixture was officially requested from AIK.

Malmö FF struggled to score in the early stages of the season and didn't record a goal until 64th minute in the third league game of the season, home against Kalmar FF, this was also the club's first win for the season. The first away fixture for the season against BK Häcken was lost 5–0, the club's biggest loss in the league since the 2001 season. The team continued to play well at home, winning all five home games after the first fixture to the break for the UEFA Euro 2012 with a goal difference of 10–1. However, the team were clearly struggling away from home, in six away fixtures the team only managed to win the match against Djurgårdens IF after a late goal in the 88th minute. The remaining away fixtures before the UEFA Euro 2012 break resulted in three drawn and two lost matches, the away fixture goal difference at this time was 10–15. At the time of the break Malmö FF occupied second position in the league table, eight points behind leaders IF Elfsborg and one point ahead of third placed AIK, Mathias Ranégie was the club's best goalscorer with five goals in the league.

Malmö FF continued to win at home, winning the two first home matches after the break against AIK and GAIS. However, the team lost surprisingly away from home against the relegation threatened Örebro SK who had only won one match before this. Just after this set of matches Malmö started winning away from home when the team took two away wins in a row against GAIS and Gefle IF. When Malmö lost away against leaders Elfsborg with 4–1 and drew with Häcken at home in a goalless match Malmö dropped from second to third in the league table behind Häcken and Elfsborg with 9 matches left to play. The team continued to drop points in some important matches, specifically losing their first home game of the season against IFK Göteborg 2–1, this resulted in a drop in the table to fourth place. After this match Malmö improved and won four matches in a row to top the table for the first time with two matches left of the season. Malmö were level at points with Elfsborg and two points ahead of third placed Häcken. The last home game of the season at Swedbank Stadion against already relegated Örebro resulted in a 1–1 draw, Malmö now positioned second had to win their last game against AIK at the same time as Elfsborg lost points at home against Åtvidabergs FF. However, this proved to a difficult scenario as AIK took a comfortable lead after 33 minutes at the same time as Elfsborg were leading at home. AIK later increased their lead to 2–0 which became the final score. Åtvidaberg later equalised against Elfsborg for the match to end 1–1, however this was enough for Elfsborg to be crowned league champions. Malmö dropped down to a final third place as Häcken won their last game of the season away from home against Sundsvall 2–1. Mathias Ranégie became Malmö FF's best goalscorer of the season with 6 goals scored even though he was sold to Italian side Udinese on the last day of the summer transfer window.

Svenska Cupen

It was decided in late 2011 that the format of the cup was to be changed to the fall–spring format instead of the current calendar year format. On 6 August the round of the tournament was drawn with Malmö facing Sandvikens IF at Jernvallen in Sandviken, the match was played on 20 August 2012. Malmö were 3–1 down until the 76th minute of the match and looked to be heading out of the competition, one goal each from Mathias Ranégie (who had previously scored the opening goal after three minutes) and Tokelo Rantie took the match to extra time. Two additional goals from Rantie to complete his hat-trick and one goal from Wílton Figueiredo turned the game to Malmö's favour and the club eventually made it through with a final score of 6–3. Malmö went on to compete in the tournament's group stage in March 2013.

Key events

• 27 October 2011: Goalkeeper Dejan Garača and forward Agon Mehmeti leaves the club on free transfer.^[1] Goalkeeper Robin Olsen joins the club on a three-year contract transferring from IFK Klagshamn.^[2]
• 9 December 2011: Midfielder Jeffrey Aubynn leaves the club on free transfer.^[3]
• 13 December 2011: Midfielder Erik Friberg joins the club on a three-year contract transferring from Seattle Sounders FC.^[4]
• 23 December 2011: Midfielder Simon Thern joins the club on a three-year contract transferring from Helsingborgs IF.^[5]
• 23 December 2011: Midfielder Omid Nazari leaves the club, transferring to Ängelholms FF.^[6]
• 12 January 2012: Defender Tobias Malm leaves the club on loan to Trelleborgs FF for the duration of the season.^[7]
• 31 January: Defender Ulrich Vinzents is named the new club captain.^[8]
• 20 February 2012: Goalkeeper Viktor Noring joins the club on loan until 20 August 2012, transferring from Trelleborgs FF.^[9]
• 13 June 2012: Goalkeeper Johan Dahlin signs a new two and a half year contract, keeping him at the club until the end of the 2014 season.^[10]
• 17 July 2012: Defender Filip Helander signs a new three and a half year contract, his first contract for the first team, keeping him at the club until the end of the 2015 season.^[11]
• 30 July 2012: Defender Matias Concha joins the club on a two and a half year contract, transferring from German club Bochum.^[12]
• 9 August 2012: Forward Tokelo Rantie joins the club on a one and a half year loan deal transferring from Stars of Africa Academy.^[13]
• 22 August 2012: Goalkeeper Zlatan Azinović joins the club on a half year contract, transferring from Trelleborgs FF.^[14]
• 31 August 2012: Forward Mathias Ranégie leaves the club, transferring to Udinese.^[15]
• 31 August 2012: Midfielder David Löfquist joins the club on loan until 31 December 2012, transferring from Parma.^[16]

Players

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF   DEN Ulrich Vinzents (captain) 3 DF   SWE Jasmin Sudić 4 DF   SWE Daniel Andersson 5 DF   SWE Pontus Jansson 6 DF   FIN Markus Halsti 7 FW   SWE Daniel Larsson 8 MF   SWE Erik Friberg 9 MF   BRA Wílton Figueiredo 10 MF   SWE Jiloan Hamad 11 MF   SWE Simon Thern 13 FW   SWE Mathias Ranégie 14 DF   SWE Miiko Albornoz 15 DF   SWE Filip Helander 17 MF   SWE Ivo Pękalski 18 MF   SWE Amin Nazari

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW   SWE Dardan Rexhepi 20 DF   BRA Ricardinho 21 MF   SWE Jimmy Durmaz 22 DF   SWE Filip Stenström 23 DF   SWE Matias Concha 24 MF   SWE David Löfquist (on loan from Parma) 25 GK   DEN Robin Olsen 27 GK   SWE Johan Dahlin 28 FW   SWE Alexander Nilsson 29 FW   RSA Tokelo Rantie (on loan from Stars of Africa) 30 GK   SWE Viktor Noring (on loan from Trelleborgs FF) 30 GK   SWE Zlatan Azinović 31 MF   SWE Simon Kroon 32 MF   SWE Tobias Lewicki

Players in/out

In

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
22	DF		Filip Stenström	20	EU	IF Limhamn Bunkeflo	Loan return	Winter	2013	N/A	lb07.se
30	GK		Dejan Garača	20	EU	IF Limhamn Bunkeflo	Loan return	Winter	2011	N/A	lb07.se
25	GK		Robin Olsen	21	EU	IFK Klagshamn	Transfer	Winter	2014	N/A
8	MF		Erik Friberg	25	EU	Seattle Sounders FC	Transfer	Winter	2014	N/A
32	MF		Tobias Lewicki	18	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Winter	2013	N/A	fotbolltransfers.com
11	MF		Simon Thern	19	EU	Helsingborgs IF	Transfer	Winter	2014	N/A
30	GK		Viktor Noring	21	EU	Trelleborgs FF	Loan	Winter	2012	N/A
23	DF		Matias Concha	32	EU	VfL Bochum	Transfer	Summer	2014	N/A
29	FW		Tokelo Rantie	21	Non-EU	Stars Of Africa Academy	Loan	Summer	2013	N/A
30	GK		Zlatan Azinović	24	EU	Trelleborgs FF	Transfer	Summer	2012	N/A	mff.se
24	MF		David Löfquist	26	EU	Parma	Loan	Summer	2012	N/A

Out

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
24	FW		Agon Mehmeti	22	EU	Palermo	End of contract	Winter	Free
30	GK		Dejan Garača	21	EU	Syrianska FC	End of contract	Winter	Free
25	GK		Dušan Melichárek	29	EU	Slovácko	End of contract	Winter	Free	fcslovacko.cz
5	MF		Miljan Mutavdžić	25	Non-EU	Radnički 1923	End of contract	Winter	Free	sydsvenskan.se
16	DF		Yago Fernández	23	EU	Girona	End of contract	Winter	Free	sydsvenskan.se
11	MF		Jeffrey Aubynn	34	EU	GAIS	End of contract	Winter	Free	mff.se
23	DF		Tobias Malm	19	EU	Trelleborgs FF	Loan	Winter	N/A
32	MF		Tobias Lewicki	19	EU	Youth system	Demoted	Summer	N/A	skanskan.se
—	MF		Rick Kruys	27	EU	Excelsior	Transfer	Summer	N/A	sbvexcelsior.nl
21	MF		Jimmy Durmaz	23	EU	Gençlerbirliği	Transfer	Summer	N/A
30	GK		Viktor Noring	21	EU	Trelleborgs FF	Loan return	Summer	N/A
13	FW		Mathias Ranégie	28	EU	Udinese	Transfer	Summer	N/A

Squad stats

Number	Position	Name	2012 Allsvenskan		2012–13 Svenska Cupen		Others		Total
			Appearances	Goals	Appearances	Goals	Appearances	Goals	Appearances	Goals
2	DF	Ulrich Vinzents	8	0	0	0	7	0	15	0
3	DF	Jasmin Sudić	9	0	1	0	9	0	19	0
4	DF	Daniel Andersson	16	1	1	0	7	0	24	1
5	DF	Pontus Jansson	30	1	0	0	9	0	39	1
6	DF	Markus Halsti	13	1	0	0	8	0	21	1
7	FW	Daniel Larsson	30	4	1	0	10	4	41	8
8	MF	Erik Friberg	24	0	0	0	8	2	32	2
9	MF	Wílton Figueiredo	22	5	1	1	9	1	32	7
10	MF	Jiloan Hamad	30	6	1	0	9	0	40	6
11	MF	Simon Thern	28	3	1	0	11	1	40	4
13	FW	Mathias Ranégie	19	10	1	2	8	4	28	16
14	DF	Miiko Albornoz	27	3	1	0	9	0	37	3
15	DF	Filip Helander	12	0	0	0	9	0	21	0
17	MF	Ivo Pękalski	21	1	0	0	3	0	24	1
18	MF	Amin Nazari	1	0	0	0	7	0	8	0
19	FW	Dardan Rexhepi	13	0	1	0	9	1	23	1
20	DF	Ricardinho	28	2	1	0	11	0	40	2
21	MF	Jimmy Durmaz	15	6	0	0	9	2	24	8
22	DF	Filip Stenström	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
23	DF	Matias Concha	2	0	1	0	1	0	4	0
24	MF	David Löfquist	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
25	GK	Robin Olsen	1	0	1	0	2	0	4	0
27	GK	Johan Dahlin	29	0	0	0	10	0	39	0
28	FW	Alexander Nilsson	17	2	1	0	8	2	26	4
29	FW	Tokelo Rantie	11	3	1	3	1	0	13	6
30	GK	Viktor Noring	0	0	0	0	4	0	4	0
30	GK	Zlatan Azinović	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	MF	Simon Kroon	1	0	0	0	6	0	7	0
32	MF	Tobias Lewicki	1	0	0	0	6	0	7	0
—	FW	Dino Islamović	0	0	0	0	4	0	4	0
—	DF	Pa Konate	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
—	MF	Paweł Cibicki	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
—	MF	Egzon Sekiraça	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0

Disciplinary record

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name				Notes
2	DF		Vinzents	1
3	DF		Sudić	1
5	DF		Jansson	2
6	DF		Halsti	1		1
8	MF		Friberg	6
9	MF		Figueiredo	6
10	MF		Hamad	2
11	MF		Thern	1
13	FW		Ranégie	3
14	MF		Albornoz	5
15	MF		Helander	1
17	MF		Pękalski	2
19	FW		Rexhepi	1
20	DF		Ricardinho	6
21	MF		Durmaz	2
27	GK		Dahlin	3
28	FW		Nilsson	1
29	FW		Rantie	1

Source: svenskfotboll.se
Only competitive matches
  = Number of bookings;   = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;   = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.
Notes: Allsvenskan only

Club

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head Coach First Team	Rikard Norling
Assistant Coach First Team	Jörgen Pettersson
Assistant Coach First Team	Daniel Andersson
Assistant Coach First Team and Fitness Coach	Simon Hollyhead
First Team Coach / Head Coach U-21	Leif Engqvist
Head Coach Youth Academy	Mats Engqvist
Youth Talent Coach	Staffan Tapper
Goalkeeping Coach	Jonnie Fedel
Physiotherapist	Wilner Registre

Source: Malmö FF

Other information

Chairman	Håkan Jeppsson
Managing director	Per Nilsson
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Swedbank Stadion (24,000 / 105x70 m)

Source: Malmö FF and Swedbank Stadion

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Allsvenskan	—	—	3rd	2 April 2012	4 November 2012

Source: Competitions

Allsvenskan

Main article: 2012 Allsvenskan

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	IF Elfsborg (C)	30	18	5	7	48	29	+19	59	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	BK Häcken	30	17	6	7	67	36	+31	57	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
3	Malmö FF	30	16	8	6	49	33	+16	56	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
4	AIK	30	15	10	5	41	27	+14	55
5	IFK Norrköping	30	15	7	8	50	43	+7	52

Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	16	8	6	49	33	+16	56	10	3	1	25	5	+20	6	5	5	24	28	−4

Source: svenskfotboll.se

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A
Result	D	L	W	W	W	L	D	W	W	D	W	D	W	L	W	W	W	D	L	W	D	W	D	L	W	W	W	W	D	L
Position	10	14	9	6	2	4	6	4	5	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	4	4	3	2	1	2	3

Source: see below
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Kickoff times are in UTC+2.

Malmö FF v Gefle IF

2 April 2012 Round 1	Malmö FF	0–0	Gefle IF	Malmö
19:00		Report		Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 17,102 Referee: Tobias Mattsson (Karlstad)

BK Häcken v Malmö FF

7 April 2012 Round 2	BK Häcken	5–0	Malmö FF	Gothenburg
14:00	Anklev   5' Waris   24', 49' Makondele   43', 84' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Rambergsvallen Attendance: 4,108 Referee: Michael Lerjéus (Skövde)

Malmö FF v Kalmar FF

13 April 2012 Round 3	Malmö FF	2–0	Kalmar FF	Malmö
19:00	Larsson   64' Durmaz   69'	Report		Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 12,533 Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Stocksund)

Djurgårdens IF v Malmö FF

16 April 2012 Round 4	Djurgårdens IF	2–3	Malmö FF	Stockholm
19:00	Keene   54' Hämäläinen   64'	Report	Figueiredo   13' Hamad   33' Ranégie   88'	Stadium: Stockholms Stadion Attendance: 9,582 Referee: Martin Hansson (Holmsjö)

Malmö FF v Syrianska FC

23 April 2012 Round 5	Malmö FF	2–0	Syrianska FC	Malmö
19:00	Figueiredo   20' Durmaz   90'	Report		Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 11,640 Referee: Martin Strömbergsson (Gävle)

IFK Norrköping v Malmö FF

30 April 2012 Round 6	IFK Norrköping	3–2	Malmö FF	Norrköping
17:30	Þorvaldsson   21', 80' Frempong   89'	Report	Durmaz   52' Hamad   90'	Stadium: Idrottsparken Attendance: 8,079 Referee: Michael Lerjéus (Skövde)

Mjällby AIF v Malmö FF

3 May 2012 Round 7	Mjällby AIF	2–2	Malmö FF	Hällevik
19:00	Fejzullahu   59', 83'	Report	Durmaz   8' Hamad   20'	Stadium: Strandvallen Attendance: 6,295 Referee: Daniel Stålhammar (Landskrona)

Malmö FF v Åtvidabergs FF

6 May 2012 Round 8	Malmö FF	2–1	Åtvidabergs FF	Malmö
17:30	Ranégie   67', 90+2'	Report	Möller   88'	Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 14,112 Referee: Johan Hamlin (Bro)

Malmö FF v Helsingborgs IF

10 May 2012 Round 11	Malmö FF	3–0	Helsingborgs IF	Malmö
19:00	Larsson   14' Pękalski   21' Ranégie   26'	Report		Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 23,638 Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sigtuna)

IFK Göteborg v Malmö FF

14 May 2012 Round 9	IFK Göteborg	2–2	Malmö FF	Gothenburg
19:00	Söder   31' Dyrestam   78'	Report	Thern   44' Nilsson   90+2'	Stadium: Gamla Ullevi Attendance: 12,549 Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Stocksund)

Malmö FF v IF Elfsborg

17 May 2012 Round 10	Malmö FF	1–0	IF Elfsborg	Malmö
17:30	Ranégie   62'	Report		Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 17,243 Referee: Martin Hansson (Holmsjö)

GIF Sundsvall v Malmö FF

24 May 2012 Round 12	GIF Sundsvall	1–1	Malmö FF	Sundsvall
19:00	Eklund   58'	Report	Nilsson   17'	Stadium: Norrporten Arena Attendance: 5,210 Referee: Bojan Pandzic (Gothenburg)

Malmö FF v AIK

2 July 2012 Round 13	Malmö FF	4–0	AIK	Malmö
19:00	Figueiredo   15', 42' Durmaz   29', 40'	Report		Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 14,583 Referee: Martin Hansson (Holmsjö)

Örebro SK v Malmö FF

9 July 2012 Round 14	Örebro SK	2–1	Malmö FF	Örebro
19:00	Lumbana   54' Berisha   65'	Report	Hamad   47'	Stadium: Behrn Arena Attendance: 7,156 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson (Gävle)

Malmö FF v GAIS

16 July 2012 Round 15	Malmö FF	2–0	GAIS	Malmö
19:00	Larsson   23' Ranégie   31'	Report		Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 13,023 Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Stocksund)

GAIS v Malmö FF

23 July 2012 Round 16	GAIS	2–3	Malmö FF	Gothenburg
19:00	Tornblad   14' Johansson   34'	Report	Ranégie   29' Andersson   47' (pen.) Jansson   68'	Stadium: Gamla Ullevi Attendance: 5,045 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson (Gävle)

Gefle IF v Malmö FF

28 July 2012 Round 17	Gefle IF	0–2	Malmö FF	Gävle
16:00		Report	Ranégie   33', 38' (pen.)	Stadium: Strömvallen Attendance: 4,150 Referee: Bojan Pandzic (Gothenburg)

Malmö FF v BK Häcken

5 August 2012 Round 18	Malmö FF	0–0	BK Häcken	Malmö
16:00		Report		Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 14,848 Referee: Daniel Stålhammar (Landskrona)

IF Elfsborg v Malmö FF

12 August 2012 Round 19	IF Elfsborg	4–1	Malmö FF	Borås
17:30	Larsson   31' Elm   70' Hult   75' Mobaeck   87'	Report	Ranégie   57'	Stadium: Borås Arena Attendance: 12,922 Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sigtuna)

Malmö FF v GIF Sundsvall

27 August 2012 Round 20	Malmö FF	2–0	GIF Sundsvall	Malmö
19:00	Albornoz   87' Rantie   89'	Report		Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 11,534 Referee: Bojan Pandzic (Gothenburg)

Malmö FF v Mjällby AIF

1 September 2012 Round 21	Malmö FF	1–1	Mjällby AIF	Malmö
16:00	Rantie   13'	Report	Ericsson   53'	Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 13,486 Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Stocksund)

Åtvidabergs FF v Malmö FF

17 September 2012 Round 22	Åtvidabergs FF	0–1	Malmö FF	Åtvidaberg
19:00		Report	Ricardinho   72' (pen.)	Stadium: Kopparvallen Attendance: 4,637 Referee: Michael Lerjeus (Skövde)

Helsingborgs IF v Malmö FF

24 September 2012 Round 23	Helsingborgs IF	1–1	Malmö FF	Helsingborg
20:45	Uronen   56'	Report	Figueiredo   85'	Stadium: Olympia Attendance: 14,191 Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Täby)

Malmö FF v IFK Göteborg

27 September 2012 Round 24	Malmö FF	1–2	IFK Göteborg	Malmö
20:05	Rantie   1'	Report	Hysén   68' Stiller   87'	Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 15,109 Referee: Martin Strömbergsson (Gävle)

Syrianska FC v Malmö FF

1 October 2012 Round 25	Syrianska FC	0–2	Malmö FF	Södertälje
19:00		Report	42' (o.g.) Thern   51'	Stadium: Södertälje Fotbollsarena Attendance: 1,901 Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Täby)

Malmö FF v IFK Norrköping

5 October 2012 Round 26	Malmö FF	2–0	IFK Norrköping	Malmö
19:00	Hamad   61' Albornoz   82' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 10,088 Referee: Martin Hansson (Holmsjö)

Kalmar FF v Malmö FF

21 October 2012 Round 27	Kalmar FF	1–2	Malmö FF	Kalmar
15:00	Israelsson   76'	Report	Ricardinho   15' Larsson   22'	Stadium: Guldfågeln Arena Attendance: 6,676 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson (Gävle)

Malmö FF v Djurgårdens IF

26 October 2012 Round 28	Malmö FF	3–1	Djurgårdens IF	Malmö
19:00	Thern   22' Halsti   54' Hamad   56'	Report	Nymann   26'	Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 15,107 Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Täby)

Malmö FF v Örebro SK

1 November 2012 Round 29	Malmö FF	1–1	Örebro SK	Malmö
20:05	Albornoz   57'	Report	Kamara   70'	Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 17,935 Referee: Martin Hansson (Holmsjö)

AIK v Malmö FF

4 November 2012 Round 30	AIK	2–0	Malmö FF	Solna
15:00	Bangura   33' Lundberg   62'	Report		Stadium: Råsunda Attendance: 28,057 Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Stockholm)

Svenska Cupen

2012–13

The tournament continued into the 2013 season.

Main article: 2012–13 Svenska Cupen

Kickoff times are in UTC+2.

Sandvikens IF v Malmö FF

20 August 2012 Round 2	Sandvikens IF	3–6 (a.e.t.)	Malmö FF	Sandviken
19:00	Vigren   43' Sipuri   55' Berglund   60'	Report	Ranégie   3', 87' Rantie   76', 110', 117' Figueiredo   116'	Stadium: Jernvallen Attendance: 2,700 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson (Gävle)

Non competitive

Pre-season

Malmö FF   v   D.C. United

2 February 2012 Friendly	Malmö FF	1–1	D.C. United	Bradenton, Florida, United States
10:30 (UTC-5)	Friberg   15'		Richter   55'	Stadium: IMG Academy

Malmö FF   v   Columbus Crew

8 February 2012 Friendly	Malmö FF	2–1	Columbus Crew	Bradenton, Florida, United States
10:30 (UTC-5)	Ranégie   24' Durmaz   29'		Rentería   1'	Stadium: IMG Academy

Mjällby AIF v Malmö FF

17 February 2012 Friendly	Mjällby AIF	0–2	Malmö FF	Asarum, Sweden
15:00 (UTC+1)		Report	Larsson   Durmaz	Stadium: Asarums IP Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson (Gothenburg)

Malmö FF   v   OB

24 February 2012 Friendly	Malmö FF	1–2	OB	Malmö, Sweden
14:00 (UTC+1)	76' (o.g.)		Andreasen   36', 39'	Stadium: Malmö IP Attendance: 1,620 Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Lund)

Celtic   v   Malmö FF

6 March 2012 Friendly	Celtic	0–0	Malmö FF	Lennoxtown, Scotland
11:30 (UTC±0)				Stadium: Lennoxtown training centre

Malmö FF   v   Viking FK

10 March 2012 Friendly	Malmö FF	1–0	Viking FK	Lomma, Sweden
15:30 (UTC+1)	Larsson   37'			Stadium: Lomma IP Referee: Daniel Stålhammar (Landskrona)

IF Elfsborg v Malmö FF

16 March 2012 Friendly	IF Elfsborg	2–3	Malmö FF	Borås, Sweden
17:00 (UTC+1)	Ishizaki   80' (pen.) Larsson   90'	Report	Thern   7' Ranégie   60', 85'	Stadium: Borås Arena Attendance: 1,347 Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson (Gothenburg)

Malmö FF v BK Häcken

24 March 2012 Friendly	Malmö FF	4–2	BK Häcken	Malmö, Sweden
15:00 (UTC+1)	Larsson   13' Figueiredo   31' Nilsson   51' Söderberg   63' (o.g.)	Report	Waris   60' Söderberg   80'	Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 2,853 Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Lund)

Mid-season

Shamrock Rovers   v   Malmö FF

17 June 2012 Friendly	Shamrock Rovers	1–2	Malmö FF	Dublin, Republic of Ireland
15:00 (UTC+1)	Twigg   5'		Larsson   4' Friberg   81'	Stadium: Tallaght Stadium

Malmö FF v Kalmar FF

25 June 2012 Friendly	Malmö FF	1–1	Kalmar FF	Malmö, Sweden
18:00 (UTC+2)	Ranégie   84'		Andersson   57'	Stadium: Swedbank Stadion

Malmö FF   v   West Bromwich Albion

19 July 2012 Friendly	Malmö FF	1–0	West Bromwich Albion	Malmö, Sweden
19:00 (UTC+2)	Nilsson   8'	Report^[permanent dead link]		Stadium: Swedbank Stadion Attendance: 3,128 Referee: Martin Hansson (Holmsjö)

Lazio   v   Malmö FF

16 August 2012 Friendly	Lazio	2–1	Malmö FF	Rome, Italy
21:00 (UTC+2)	Hernanes   38' (pen.) Kozák   90+3'	Report	Rexhepi   80'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Referee: Gianpaolo Calvarese (Teramo)

Footnotes

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