in 1918 fredriksskans was opened and at the same time the where a major conference in kalmar about the high number of clubs in the town, this led to the merging of "if gothia" and "kamraterna" to kalmar idrotts sällskap and "kalmar ik" merged with "falken" to form kalmar aik. in 1927 kalmar idrotts sällskap changed its name to kalmar ff.