Sierra Leone’s forward Mohamed Buya Turay have signed a Three and half year contract for Swedish giants Malmö Fotbollförening, commonly known as Malmö FF. Turay revealed about the signing on his social media platform Facebook, after he posted pictures of him on his new club’s kit with this message,
“My sincere gratitude to God for this opportunity,and it’s with great pleasure to be part of Malmö FF. Many thanks and appreciations to the Board and coaches for trusting me, I’m looking forward to working with you all. I promise to do my best and bring excellence to each moment,” Buya Turay wrote.
Before joining Malmo FF, Buya was playing for Chinese Super League side Henan Songshan Longmen Football Club.
Malmö Fotbollförening, commonly known as Malmö FF, Malmö, or MFF, is a professional football club and the most successful football club in Sweden in terms of trophies won.Formed in 1910 and affiliated with the Scania Football Association, Malmö FF are based at Eleda Stadion in Malmö, Scania.The club have won a record 22 Swedish championship titles and the most national cup titles with 15.
Malmö FF won their first Championship in 1944. The powerhouse of Swedish football in recent years, Malmö FF also saw glory in the 1970s, winning five Swedish championships and four Svenska Cupentitles. Malmö FF remains the only club from the Nordic countries to have reached the final of the European Cup, the predecessor of the UEFA Champions League. Malmö FF were runners-up in the 1979 European Champions Cup final, which they lost 1–0 to English club Nottingham Forest.[6] For this feat, Malmö FF were awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. Malmö FF is also the only Nordic club to have been represented at the Intercontinental Cup (succeeded by FIFA Club World Cup) in which they competed for the 1979 title.[8]
Malmö FF is the leader of the overall Allsvenskan table maratontabellen, where they are the club that holds both the record of scoring the most goals as well as the record of winning the most matches. In recent years, the team qualified for three group stages of the Champions League in 2014, 2015 and 2021. In 2019 and 2020, Malmö FF played in the knockout stages of the UEFA Europa League.
The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are sky blue and white, with sky blue shirts, white shorts and sky blue socks being the club’s traditional kit colours. The main rivals of the club are fellow regional rivals Helsingborg, historical domestic rival IFK Göteborg and historically local Division 2 Södra Götaland side IFK Malmö.[10] The MFF Support are their official fan club.[11] The club name is literally translated into English as the “Malmö Football Association”.
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