before the start, several swedish experts believed that kalmar ff would be one of the teams fighting for the championship title 2008, the club started the season stable and as the season went on the club performance became stronger and saw the club win many big victories, only other team able to keep up was if elfsborg. the club had to wait until the last match of the season against halmstads bk in halmstad before they could become champions. before the final match elfsborg was behind with 3 points and 9 goals. the match against halmstads bk ended 2–2 placing the club 1 point ahead of elfsborg. patrik ingelsten also became the league's top goalscorer of the season with 19 goals scored. the team reached the final in svenska cupen yet again and also this year against ifk göteborg, however this year ifk won 5–4 on penalties after full-time and extra time had ended 0–0. the club also had the chance to reach the group stage of the uefa cup. after strong play against racing fc from luxembourg and gent from belgium, the club faced dutch team feyenoord, after winning 1–0 away in rotterdam the club lost home with 1–2, in borås at borås arena since fredriksskans failed to reach uefa demands, sending the club out of the competition on away goals.