Announcement: Between Mice, Snooks and Cows – Why are Clubs Called That?

DEGERFORS IF

For a long time he lived without a nickname, but in recent years “Degen”, which can be taken as an abbreviation of the club’s name, has become increasingly popular. Players in Degerforce usually gather in a ring and shout “One, two, three… Dejene” before matches. SVT also presented a reality series this year about the club from Värmland called “Here Comes Dejene”.

If ELFSBORG

“yellow”, “yellow” and “yellow black”. All Elfsborg nicknames come from the color of the shirt or suit. So does the fan club. In the early 1990s, a Borås Tidning journalist wrote that “England has hooligans, Denmark has hooligans and Elfsborg has hooligans”. The crowd of supporters from Knallebygden has since been called “the Hooligans”.

HELSINGBORG IF

Since 1925 HIF (as most people call the club) has been called “Mjölkkossan”. This is for the ability to draw large crowds to both home and away matches. Something that was clearly visible when he returned to Allsvenskan in 1993, after many years in the lower divisions. The first five years in a row (from 1993, i.e.) the club won the Allsvenskan audience league.

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The red blues from upscale Gothenburg are called Öis, of course, but they also have another nickname: ‘Team of Players’. It originated in the early 1960s when Uess played very interesting and entertaining football and had players like Agne Simonsson and Rune Börjesson in the team.