The Stockhom Mean Machines are a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team based in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

. Founded 1982 the Mean Machines are the oldest American football team of the country and the most successful with a total of 12 national titles.

History

The Mean Machines were founded in 1982 in

Danderyd Danderyd Municipality (''Danderyds kommun''; ) is a municipality north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden, but the most affluent. Its seat is located in Djursholm and it is ...

near Stockholm as ''Danderyd Mean Machines''. They had the first loss in the national in 1985. Five years later the Danderyd Mean Machines won their first official national championship. In 1995 the team changed names to ''Stockholm Mean Machines''. From 1997 to 2000 the Mean Machines won four times the

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and became the most successful team of the country. Between 2002 and 2009 they won another six championships before they did not see the national final for a period of eight years. The most recent seasons 2018 and 2019 the Mean Machines won two more championships each time with a

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Recent seasons

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External links

Official website
American football teams in Sweden Sport in Stockholm American football teams established in 1982 1982 establishments in Sweden