between 1950 and 1955 the club went up and down between allsvenskan and "division 2". in 1955 they fell down to division 2 and stayed there for 20 years; during this time players like hungarian ference marko represented the club at the same time as he lived at the refugee camp in borgholm in 1957, in 1959 sune "mona-lisa" andersson, who won an olympic medal in the 1948 summer olympics as a player, as manager, during this time sten-åke johansson played for the club and became the top goalscorer for all time for the club, on 19 october 1975 kalmar ff defeated västra frölunda and returned to allsvenskan.