Lidingö Pink Chargers
The Lidingö Pink Chargers (the original name Lidingö Pink Panthers had to be changed for legal reasons) were one of the first American football teams in Sweden . The Chargers won both the first "unofficial" Swedish championship in 1985 6-0 against Danderyd Mean Machine and the first official one in 1986 against the Glue Harbor Buccaneers 15-6. In 1988 they were again in the championship finals, but lost against the Kristianstad C4 Lions with 8:25. The U-19 juniors were able to win the Swedish championship title in 1991, in the final they defeated the IFS Göteborg Giants 12-0.
At the Gatorade Challenge II in 1991, the Chargers competed in Hamburg against the Hamburg Silver Eagles and lost 8:31 in front of 1,800 spectators in the Victoria Stadium .
The Chargers took part in league games for the last time in 1992.
credentials
- ↑ SAFF-Sveriges Amerikanska FotbollsFörbund ( Memento from February 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Coach Starcke stops . In: Abendblatt No. 192 . August 19, 1991. Archived from the original on July 28, 2014. Retrieved on March 23, 2009.