Graham Potter needs a miracle to help Sweden qualify for the World Cup - but thankfully, the country are in the habit of producing them.
Potter's eyes will have been fixated on Swedish minnows, Mjallby, despite his former side West Ham, playing Brentford tonight.
Mjallby AIF's players celebrate winning the title
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Mjallby AIF have completed a footballing fairytaleCredit: AFP
Anders Torstensson's men might have just helped revitalise their country's footballing passion with their historic first Allsvenskan title.
Mjallby beat IFK Goteborg 2-0 on Monday night to complete one of the most remarkable achievements in Swedish football history.
MAIF were afforded the opportunity to win the title on the pitch after Hammarby beat Alexander Isak's boyhood club, AIK, 2-1 on Sunday.
And they managed to get the job done with a victory in Gotenburg, following an impressive first-half showing.
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Jacob Bergstrom opened the scoring after 21 minutes before Tom Pettersson doubled the lead just seven minutes later.
Goteborg goalkeeper Elis Bishesari was forced into six saves in the opening 45 as Mjallby went all out to win the title, with their two goals enough to secure historic silverware.
Mjallby moved an unassailable 11 points clear at the top with three matches remaining to wrestle the title away from Malmo.
They also remain on course to overtake Zlatan Ibrahimovic's boyhood club for the biggest points haul in the league’s 101-year history.
Mjallby, who have lost just once this year, are on 66 points and only need one more victory or even two draws from their remaining games to beat Malmo's 67-point haul that they managed in 2010.
The Swedish side have already become the most unlikely European top-flight league champions since Leicester City's 2016 heroes.
Mjällby play their matches at Strandvallen, which is situated in the fishing village of Hallevik
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Mjällby play their matches at Strandvallen, which is situated in the fishing village of HallevikCredit: AFP
Torstensson was lured away from his job teaching to return as head coach
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Torstensson was lured away from his job teaching to return as head coachCredit: AFP
Rags to riches
May 2, 2016 - Leicester City confirmed Premier League champions
November 11, 2016 - Mjällby beat Prespa Birlik 3-0 on the last day of the season to stay in the third division.
Mjällby won back-to-back promotions in 2018 and 2019 to return to the Swedish top league
October 20, 2025 - Mjällby win first Allsvenskan title
Mjallby — who reside among the 1,500 population in the southern fishing village of Hallevik — were in the third division that same year.
Exactly ten seasons later, the Strandvallen outfit have ended Malmo's hold on the Allsvenskan, having won eight of the last 12 titles.
Their turnover last year was around 85 million kronor ($9 million/£6.7m), around an eighth of the budget of Ibrahimovic's first side.
It is even more remarkable considering that Mjallby were one game away from dropping into the country’s fourth tier just nine years ago.
Yet the arrival of Chairman Magnus Emeus in 2015 started the building blocks on and off the field to achieve long-term success.
“Another mantra I talk about is, we need to be best on the things which are free,” he told The Associated Press last month.
The rise of Mjallby AIF from rags to riches
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Mjallby AIF's chairman, Emeus (left), transformed the club's finances through smart budgetingCredit: AFP
“We can have a better team spirit than Real Madrid … we can prepare better for a game than Manchester United.”
Another man at the heart of their success is Torstensson, who is now in his third spell at the club, having once been a Mjallby youth player.
The 59-year-old reached the first-team squad in 1985 but left without making an appearance and has since had a varied career.
Torstensson spent a decade in the military and also worked as a school headteacher while juggling coaching roles in the last 20 years.
Having been third for a third time in 2023, Mjallby achieved a club-record 50 points last term, which they've now beaten again en route to winning the title this year.
Defender Axel Noren recently got a first call-up by Sweden’s national team, and will now hope to be part of the Potter revolution.
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“It’s a fairy tale,” Mjallby director Jacob Lennartsson added. “We get the question a lot now — how are you doing this?
“It’s important to say we haven’t just done this from this year, we’ve been working for so many years.”