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There are actually two teams in Sweden that I know are in the process of moving or considering a move, and where it is connected to stadiums. AFC United, a new club (formed 2006), is going to move from the outskirts of Stockholm to Eskilstuna, a city about 1.5 hour away by car, basically because it's hard to get access to good stadiums for an upstart team in Stockholm, while Eskilstuna doesn't have a major team (IFK Eskilstuna is in the 6th ranking league). AFC were playing in the third ranked League, but managed to qualify for the second ranked League (superettan) this year. They had already moved to a different area in Stockholm once before this move. The other one is Dalkurd FF, created by Kurds in Borlänge (a small town) in 2004, who rapidly climbed in the leagues as well, and currently play in the second highest league. They are considering moving to a new town, as they consider themselves unfairly treated by the local municipality. They might move to Uppsala, which is a lot closer to Stockholm, or some other town. Basically what these teams have in common is that they are recently created teams that have rapidly advanced into the upper leagues, growing in size and followers. They don't have a hundred years of history, and in the case of Dalkurd, they rather have an cultural community as a unifying foundation, rather than a local community. But you'd never see, say, one of the big Gothenburg teams move to Stockholm, that would be worse in the eyes of the supporters than closing down the club entirely. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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