Editing Bandy (section)

====Bandy and association football====
With [[association football]] and ''hockey on ice'' or bandy both being popular sports in parts of Europe around 1900, bandy was highly influenced by football and taking after [[Laws of the Game (association football)|its main rules]]: having a field approximately the same size, having the same number of players on each team and having the same game time (2×45 minutes).<ref>[https://runeberg.org/nfbc/0554.html "Nordisk familjebok (Uggleupplagan)", vol. 3. Bergsvalan - Branstad, 1905, p. 1027 (in Swedish)], accessed 7 September 2022</ref> It is natural that bandy got the nickname 'winter football'.<ref name="Oxford"/>

It was common for sports clubs to have both a bandy and a football section, with athletes playing both sports but at different times of the year. Some examples are ''Nottingham Forest Football and Bandy Club'' in England (today known just as [[Nottingham Forest F.C.]]) and Norwegian [[Strømsgodset IF]] and [[Mjøndalen IF]], with both having an active bandy section.

In Sweden, most football clubs that were active during the first half of the 20th century also played bandy. Swedish player [[Orvar Bergmark]] earned silver medals in the world championships of both sports in the 1950s. Later, as the season for each sport increased in time, it was not as easy for the players to engage in both sports, so some clubs came to concentrate on one or the other. Many old clubs still have both sports on their program. [[Sten-Ove Ramberg]] is the last Swedish male player in both national teams (1978 in bandy, 1979&ndash;1984 in football).