. The different shades of gray represent league divisions. Jönköpings Södra IF was founded on 9 December 1922 with
Bandy being the first sport where the club fielded a team. Other sports that were played by the club in its early days includes
Boxing,
Ice hockey,
Tennis and
Table tennis. In 1923 they played their first football match, which only featured eight players for each side as they did not have access to a big enough pitch to fit more players. Five years later J-Södra finally entered into league play for the first time as well as the district championship. The club's first major success came during the
44–45 season. It was only their second year ever in the second tier of the
Swedish football league system, but J-Södra managed to go through the season winning all 18 league games as well as the promotion playoffs, thus qualifying themselves for the top division Allsvenskan for the first time ever. Even though they were relegated the following season they immediately bounced back up to Allsvenskan again and the
golden age of the club began as they established themselves in the top division throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s. With the culmination being the second-place finish in the
1949–50 Allsvenskan behind a dominant
Malmö FF. in the
2015 Superettan. After their relegation in 1954 J-södra only managed two short one year appearances in Allsvenskan during the sixties. They instead became established in the second tier until the late 1980s when the club started plummeting down the divisions and eventually bottoming out in 1996 when they finished in 8th place in the fifth tier of Swedish football. In 2003 the club had returned to the third tier and at the start of the season they announced the high-profile signing of former
Sweden men's national football team coach
Olle Nordin as their new manager. During his reign he helped the club advance to, and establish themselves in,
Superettan and he eventually also took over the role of director of sports. The
2014 Superettan season started in chaos as manager
Mats Gren abruptly left to work for
IFK Göteborg. After feeling unhappy with the list of managers that the board was considering the player squad declared that they wanted inexperienced youth coach Jimmy Thelin as their new manager. The board accepted the players proposal and during his second year in charge Thelin won promotion back to Allsvenskan with the club. After the relegation from Allsvenskan, the club has established itself as a stable club in the Superettan. After many changes and a rough year the club was relegated to
Söderettan, in November 2023. ==Players==