Zelge Fans is the official fanclub of the Swedish football (soccer) team Assyriska Föreningen

Assyriska Föreningen

Assyriska Föreningen is a Swedish football club based in Södertälje. The club, formed in 1974 by Assyrian immigrants, has advanced through the league system and is currently playing in the second highest Swedish league, Superettan. They played in the highest Swedish football league Allsvenskan in...

. It was started 1993 by a group of Assyriska supporters in Södertälje

Södertälje

Södertälje is a city and the seat of Södertälje Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 86,069 inhabitants in 2010.The industrial city, about south of Stockholm, is the home to truck maker Scania AB and a top 10 pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca....

. At first the fanclub was called Neshre which means "eagles" in Syriac language

Syriac language

Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from...

. Three months later, the club changed its name to Zelge Fans. The word Zelge means "sunbeams". This refers to the beams in the Assyrian flag

Assyrian flag

The Assyrian flag is the flag chosen by the Assyrian people to represent the Assyrian nation in the homeland and in the diaspora.George Bit Atanus first designed the flag in 1968...

. Most of the members are Assyrians

Assyrian people

The Assyrian people are a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia...

but Zelge fanclub has also Swedish members.

External links

• Zelge Fans - Official Supporter Club Site
• Assyriska Föreningen - Official Team Site
• SvenskaFans Assyriska - Supporter Site