Lennart Johanssons Pokal

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Lennart Johanssons Pokal
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Lennart Johanssons Pokal
Awarded forWinning Allsvenskan and thus becoming Swedish champions
Presented by Swedish Football Association
First awarded2001
Currently held by Malmö FF
Website svenskfotboll.se

Lennart Johanssons Pokal is a trophy awarded annually by the Swedish Football Association to the winning team of the Swedish top division, Allsvenskan. The winner of Allsvenskan is also crowned Swedish Champions.

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The trophy was introduced in 2001 following media giving publicity in early November 2000 that Clarence von Rosen, the man after which the previous trophy was named, had nazi sympathies during the 1930s. [1] [2] The first club to lift the trophy was Hammarby IF in 2001 and most recently Malmö FF in 2023. Malmö FF is the club to have lifted the trophy the most times, having lifted it nine times.

The trophy

The trophy is made of silver and has a football mounted on a socle with two large handles on each side of the socle. The trophy was designed by Anja Nibbler Kothe and was inspired by a trophy that the Sweden national football team had been awarded for winning the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The trophy is named after former UEFA president Lennart Johansson, who was in office between 1990 and 2007. The thought behind the trophy was to connect the biggest trophy a Swedish club could win with the biggest Swedish football leader.

Secret inscription controversy

In 2010 Dagens Nyheter wrote an article where goldsmith Peter Gustafsson told the newspaper that his old colleague Ingemar Eklund who made the trophy had engraved "Bajen Forever" on the inside of the trophy. [3] "Bajen" is the nickname for the first holders of the trophy Hammarby IF. The Swedish football association went as far as to actually open the top of the trophy to make sure nothing subjective was engraved on the inside of the trophy. Instead of "Bajen Forever" the words "Djurgården är bäst!!" (literally "Djurgården are the best") were found on the inside of the trophy. [4] The chairman of the football association later told the media that the engravings would be removed when the 2010 champions Malmö FF received their engravings on the outside of the trophy.

Trophy winners

Nine teams have lifted the trophy since 2001. Hammarby IF were the first holders of the trophy and Malmö FF are the current holders. Malmö FF have held the trophy a record nine times.

SeasonWinner
2001 Hammarby IF (1)
2002 Djurgårdens IF (1)
2003 Djurgårdens IF (2)
2004 Malmö FF (1)
2005 Djurgårdens IF (3)
2006 IF Elfsborg (1)
2007 IFK Göteborg (1)
2008 Kalmar FF (1)
2009 AIK (1)
2010 Malmö FF (2)
2011 Helsingborgs IF (1)
SeasonWinner
2012 IF Elfsborg (2)
2013 Malmö FF (3)
2014 Malmö FF (4)
2015 IFK Norrköping (1)
2016 Malmö FF (5)
2017 Malmö FF (6)
2018 AIK (2)
2019 Djurgårdens IF (4)
2020 Malmö FF (7)
2021 Malmö FF (8)
2022 BK Häcken (1)
2023 Malmö FF (9)

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References

  1. ↑ Mikael Bergling, Fredrik Nejman (3 November 2000). "von Rosen var nazist" (in Swedish). Sportbladet. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  2. ↑ Thorén, Petra (13 December 2000). "SM-pokalen ska skrotas". aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  3. ↑ Löwgren, Göran. "Lennart Johansson: Smaklöst". dn.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2011-01-03.
  4. ↑ "Lennart Johanssons pokal opererad". dn.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2011-01-03.
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