after the 1973 energy crisis, times became hard for the swedish shipyards. there were six large shipyards along the swedish western coast. three of them were located in gothenburg and in landskrona was the öresundsvarvet shipyard, by far the town's largest employer with 3500 employees. by 1978 most shipyards were nationalised and threatened with closure. then the club and its players decided to do something for öresundsvarvet. in the allsvenskan premiere match, landskrona bois faced ifk göteborg from gothenburg away. just before kick-off the bois players unfurled a banderole which got the large crowd to applaud the away team in a very rare manner. the banderole simply stated "save the shipyards", which greatly also appealed to the gothenburg audience.