Mjallby make history with first-ever Swedish league title | OneFootball

The modest Mjallby, a club from a small locality in southern Sweden with just over a thousand inhabitants, was crowned the national football champion of the Scandinavian country this Monday (20), an unprecedented title with three rounds remaining in the competition.

“It's truly liberating to experience this (even before the end of the championship),” exclaimed their coach, Anders Torstensson, to the Swedish radio SR.

A former school director, Torstensson, 59, played as a child in Mjallby's youth categories, and later at the Strandvallen stadium.

The Title Match

Founded in 1939, Mjallby AIF, whose slogan is “making the impossible possible,” won away against IFK Goteborg by 2-0.

Jacob Bergstrom and Tom Petterson scored the goals in Mjallby's 20th victory in 27 games, which will compete in the preliminary qualifying rounds of the next edition of the Champions League.

Even before the end of the game against IFK Goteborg, a club that won the UEFA Cup (in 1982 and 1987), the small Mjallby crowd present in Gothenburg attempted to invade the field, causing a temporary halt to the match.

With three rounds still to be played, the champion team has 66 points, 11 more than second-placed Hammarby.

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