Swedish Australian Football League
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The Swedish Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league created in early 2006, as a possible governing body for the sport in Sweden.
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[edit] History
Australian rules football began in Sweden in late 1993 with the creation of the Helsingborg Saints for play in the Danish Australian Football League. They continued as the only Aussie Rules club in Sweden (excepting the short-lived Lund Bulldogs in 1995) until 2002, when the DAFL was restructured and the Saints were divided into three new clubs, the Port Malmö Maulers, Helsingborg West Raptors and Lund Magpies. After 2005, the three Scania teams became feeders for the South Sweden Saints, who competed in the DAFL Premier League and reached the 2005 Grand Final.
In 2003 a new club was formed, the Göteborg Beserkers, followed by the Stockholm Dynamite in 2004. The three centres for footy in Sweden continued to operate largely independently of each other, with the Dynamite creating its own three team local league, the Stockholm Australian Football Federation.
A loose federation calling itself the Swedish Australian Football Association was created, but no real governing body has been created to date. The announcement of the creation of the Swedish Australian Football League in 2006 comprises the Scania and Gothenburg clubs, it is unclear whether the Stockholm club are part of this structure at this stage.
[edit] E4 Cup
The Stockholm Dynamite has competed against the South Sweden Saints (aka Scania Griffins) at least once a year to date since 2004. The Southerners won the first cup in 2004 (surprisingly considering they were thrashed in a practice game earlier in the year) and defended it successfully in 2005. The E4 Cup is named for the E4 motorway connecting the capital with the country's south.
[edit] National Team
The Swedish National team is nicknamed the Elks. They have competed mainly against the Denmark Vikings, although they also played and defeated the North London Lions in a 2004 tour match and also Germany in the Tri-nations Tournament in 2006. The team is a possible inclusion for the Australian Football International Cup in 2008.
[edit] Clubs
[edit] Southern Sweden (Scania - Gothenburg)
- Representative side South Sweden Saints
- Scania League (Skåneligan)
- Malmö Red Eyes
- Helsingborg West Raptors
- Lund Magpies
- GV Rebels
- Regional League
- Port Malmö Maulers
- Landskrona Bulldozers (combined representative side of Lund and Helsingborg West)
- Göteborg Berserkers Official Site
[edit] Stockholm
- Representative side Stockholm Dynamite
- Stockholm region Australian Football Federation
- Central
- South
- North
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