Events

• 8 August 1896: Örgryte IS
  Örgryte IS
  Örgryte IS, also commonly referred to as ÖIS, is a Swedish football club based in Gothenburg.-History:The club was founded on 4 December 1887 and participated in the first football match in Sweden on 22 May 1892. Örgryte IS has won 12 national championship titles and one national cup title. After...
  
   wins the first Swedish Championship
  Swedish football champions
  Swedish football champions is a title held by the winners of the highest Swedish football league played each year, Allsvenskan. IFK Göteborg holds the record of most titles with 18 Swedish championships. After winning the 2011 Allsvenskan, Helsingborgs IF are the reigning Swedish football...
  
   ever by beating IS Idrottens Vänner 3–0 in the final match of the competition. The title is contested in the cup tournament Svenska Mästerskapet
  Svenska Mästerskapet
  Svenska Mästerskapet was a Swedish football cup held to decide the Swedish Champions between 1896 and 1925.-Previous winners:-Cup champions:...
  
  —arranged by Svenska Idrottsförbundet—and the two Gothenburg
  Gothenburg
  Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
  
   clubs are the only competitors. The match is played on the football field of a Swedish cavalry regiment—Skånska husarrregementet—garrisoned in Helsingborg
  Helsingborg
  Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...
  
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Official titles

Competitions

Svenska Mästerskapet 1896