IK Sirius is a Swedish bandy club located in Uppsala, currently playing in Elitserien. Formed in 1907, they play their home games at Studenternas IP.
The sports club that became IK Sirius was founded on 9 August 1907, and got its current name on 5 April 1908 after having been discussing Svartbäckens IK and IK Spurt. At the time, several sports club existed in the city of Uppsala: IFK Uppsala, IF Thor, IF Heimdal, and Upsala IF. The sports club was founded for athletics, and took up bandy in 1908.
IK Sirius' first success was becoming Swedish runners-up in 1918, they followed this up by becoming Swedish champions twice in 1921 and 1922, but they then didn't have any more success in the league until 1926 where they were runners-up and they were also runners-up in 1928.
In the first year of bandy league system in Sweden, 1930âÂÂ31, Sirius entered in Division 1 Norra together with AIK, Hammarby IF, IF Vesta, IFK Rättvik, Skutskärs IF, SK Tirfing, and VästerÃÂ¥s SK and finished 5th.
In the 1960s the club came back as one of the strongest in the league, finishing second behind VästerÃÂ¥s SK in 1960. They won the title the following year beating Edsbyns IF, but the clubs swapped positions in 1962 with Edsbyns IF taking the crown. In 1966 IK Sirius BK won the league for a fourth time but lost the title to ÃÂrebro SK the following year. They regained the title for the 5th and currently last time in 1968 beating ÃÂrebro SK in the final match.
In 1992 they gained their only World Cup victory beating Sandvikens AIK 7âÂÂ0 in the final.
In 2008âÂÂ09 Sirius had their best season in two decades, finishing 3rd in Elitserien and lost to Edsbyns IF in the semi-final off the play-offs.