Stockholm Nordic Vikings
Stockholm Nordic Vikings ![]() |
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City: | Stockholm | ||
Founded: | 1994 | ||
Resolved: | 1995 | ||
Team colors: | royal blue , white, gold | ||
Head coach: | Mike Wyatt | ||
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FLE champion | 1994, 1995 | ||
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Address: | Lidingövägen Stockholm |
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Play surface: | Natural grass | ||
Capacity: | 12,000 | ||
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April 10, 2009 |
The Stockholm Nordic Vikings were a football team that competed in the Football League of Europe (FLE) in 1994 and 1995 .
The Stockholm Nordic Vikings were a kind of all-star team from Sweden . The team consisted of the core of the Swedish national football team and some reinforcements, including Björn Nittmo , a Swedish kicker with NFL and World League experience.
In the 1994 season, the Nordic Vikings were traded as a secret favorite and lived up to them. With only one defeat in nine wins in the group stage, they reached the play-offs. There they beat the Amsterdam Crusaders in the semifinals with 34:21 and won in the final, in front of 18,000 spectators in Hamburg 's Volksparkstadion , against the Hamburg Blue Devils with 43:35. In the 1995 final they beat the Bergamo Lions 14-0.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Huddle . No. 17 . Huddle Verlag, Berlin April 28, 1994, p. 5 ff .
- ↑ Huddle 37/1994
- ↑ Review of the year 1994 - Huddle.de
- ↑ FLE overview