Swedish football champions ( sv, Svenska mästare i fotboll) is a title held by the winners of the highest

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league played each year,

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are the holders of the record of most titles with 22 Swedish championships. After winning the

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, Malmö FF are also the reigning Swedish football champions. The title has been contested since 1896 in varying forms of competition. The first Swedish Champions,

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, were declared in 1896 when the club won the cup tournament

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. This happened before there existed any Swedish national association, which was not created until 1904. The winners of Svenska Mästerskapet between 1896 and 1904 have retroactively been declared holders of the title by the

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(SvFF). After the creation of the SvFF, the title continued to be held by the winners of Svenska Mästerskapet until 1925, even though a Swedish first national league,

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, started in 1910. Svenska Mästerskapet was discontinued in 1925. In 1924–25, a new Swedish national league was created, Allsvenskan, but the Swedish Champions title wasn't awarded to the winners of that league until 1930–31. Since then, the winners of Allsvenskan are considered Swedish Champions, with a few exceptions. Between 1982 and 1990, the title was given to the winners of a

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held after Allsvenskan was finished, and the following two years, 1991 and 1992, the title was given to the winners of

Mästerskapsserien Mästerskapsserien (Championship League) was a short-lived Swedish football league played 1991 and 1992 to decide the Swedish Champions. The top six teams from Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan ...

, a continuation league with the best teams from Allsvenskan. The current trophy,

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, has been awarded since 2001 with

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being the first winners. Johansson himself handed out the trophy in

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on 27 October 2001. The first trophy which was in use from 1904 to 2000 was named von Rosen's Pokal after the first chairman of the Swedish FA

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. However, in November 2000 it was discovered that von Rosen had been active in the Swedish national socialist movement during World War II which prompted the FA to give up using the old trophy.

Champions

Svenska Mästerskapet (1896–1925)

Allsvenskan (1931–1981)

Allsvenskan Play-offs (1982–1990)

Mästerskapsserien (1991–1992)

Allsvenskan (1993–present)

Performances

Total titles won by club

A total of 20 clubs have been crowned Swedish champions from

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until

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.
A total of 119 Swedish championships have been awarded.

is the most successful club with 22 Swedish championships.

Total titles won by city

The 19 title-winning clubs have come from a total of 13

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. The most successful city is

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Total titles won by county

The Swedish championship has been won by 19 clubs from nine

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. The most successful county is Västra Götaland.

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links

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Champions A champion (from the late Latin ''campio'') is the Victory, victor in a challenge, Competition, contest or competition. There can be a territorial pyramid of championships, e.g. local, regional / provincial, state, national, continental and w ...

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