Svenska Amerikansk Fotbollförbundet

The Svenska Amerikansk Fotbollförbundet (SAFF) is the Swedish American football federation. After the first American football club in Sweden was founded in 1982 with the Danderyd Mean Machines , the SAFF was founded in 1984. In 1985 the first, still unofficial, final of the Swedish championship was played. The Lidingö Pink Chargers defeated Danderyd 6-0. From 1986 the championship final was officially played. In Uppsala Lidingö won again, this time they defeated the Glue Harbor Buccaneers 15: 6.

In 1991 the highest Swedish league, the Super Series , was founded. Among them there are currently Division I (also called Superettan ) and Division II, which is divided into four regions. In addition, in 1991 one was admitted to the Riksidrottsförbundet , the Swedish sports association.

The men's national team was European champion in 2005 , beating the German team in the final in Malmö 16: 7, after shortly before, at the World Games 2005 in Duisburg , they had lost out with 6:20. At the 2007 World Cup, they finished fourth. They lost the game for bronze against Germany 7-0.

In addition to the men's leagues, there is also a youth game, which is divided into the age groups U19, U17, U15 and U13 (pee-wees). The juniors are reigning vice European champions. In 2008 they lost the final against the German juniors 6: 9.

On October 4, 2008, the Swedish women's national team played for the first women's international match in Europe in Helsinki against Finland . Sweden lost 0:64.

Web links

• Official association website (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History (in Swedish) ( Memento from December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ International match statistics (in Swedish) ( Memento from October 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Junior European Championship
4. ↑ Queen's game Finland-Sweden at efaf.de
5. ↑ Official press release women's international game PDF (in Swedish) ( Memento from January 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )