Östers IF

Öster (English: "East") was named after a district in the city of Växjö. They were not part of the upper divisions in the early days of Swedish football and only made their first appearance in the third tier in 1947. During the 1950s and the early-1960s the club made a push to raise the level of football by inviting and playing against foreign teams such as Flamengo, Juventus and Fluminense. This coupled with an increase in the amount of training helped the team establish themselves in the second tier.

In 1961, Öster had their first chance ever to qualify for Allsvenskan but ended up in last place in the four team promotion playoffs. Success in the promotion playoffs would instead come 6 years later in 1967 when they beat IK Brage in the deciding game in front of a home crowd of 26,404 people. Öster defied the odds during their first season in the top division and won the league on goal difference after four teams had ended the season on exactly the same amount of points. Following their championship title the club had a 10 year period of solid Allsvenskan finishes before becoming dominant in the late-1970s and early-1980s, when they won the league three times in four years. After that successful era followed a slow decline over the next couple of decades which culminated in their relegation to the second tier in 1998. After that the club has found it hard to reestablish itself in Allsvenskan and has only made short one year appearances.