Everyone loves an underdog. Whether it's an unlikely Champions League run, a small nation making the World Cup or your notoriously untalented friend scoring a worldie in your Sunday League match, enjoying a spectacular event happening against the odds makes countless predictable matches worth the wait. Sweden's Allsvenskan has taken this concept a step further. Despite crowning an astonishing 11 different clubs as champions between 2000 and 2024, this year has surpassed any possible result in terms of shock. The 2025 edition of Sweden's top tier has been won - mind you, dominated - by Mjällby AIF, a club based in Hällevik, a town located in Blekinge County, which by land mass is the smallest in the country. Tom Pettersson celebrates the title [Getty Images] Blekinge län , as the Swedes would call it, is home to about 150,000 people, and happens to be less than any of the 10 biggest metropolitan areas in the country. Of these 150,000, just 17,000 live in the municipality o...
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