History

Australian football began in Sweden in late 1993 with the creation of the Helsingborg Saints, who played in the Danish Australian Football League. They continued as the only Aussie Rules club in Sweden (with the exception of 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 Berserkers, 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 region Australian Football Federation.

A loose federation calling itself the Swedish Australian Football Association was created, but no real governing body was created until the formation of AFL Sweden in 2007. The announcement of the creation of the Swedish Australian Football League (SAFL) in 2006 comprised the Scania and Gothenburg clubs, with the Stockholm teams remaining separate in the SAFF.

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