Stockholm Nordic Vikings

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Stockholm Nordic Vikings Flag of Sweden.svg
City: Stockholm
Founded: 1994
Resolved: 1995
Team colors: royal blue , white, gold
Head coach: Mike Wyatt
Greatest successes
FLE champion 1994, 1995
Stadion
Surname:

Olympic Stadium

Address: Lidingövägen
Stockholm
Play surface: Natural grass
Capacity: 12,000
Data status
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

  1. Huddle . No. 17 . Huddle Verlag, Berlin April 28, 1994, p. 5 ff .
  2. Huddle 37/1994
  3. Review of the year 1994 - Huddle.de
  4. FLE overview