these respective strengths led to a merger between diana and ifk landskrona on 7 february 1915, forming a new club, landskrona bois, with ifk landskrona's strong player roster complementing diana's structural advantages. the former chairman of diana, bror nilsson, also became the first chairman of landskrona bois, a position that he held until the end of the 1940s. until the summer of 1924, the club's home pitch was velocipedbanan, referred to as banan locally.