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Blue Army Sweden

We’re shining a spotlight on supporter groups and fans from across the world, with this edition focused on Sören Filipson from Blue Army Sweden.

2025-08-09T00:00+01:00

by Sam Jones

Published

08 Aug, 2025

Blue Army Sweden

We’re shining a spotlight on supporter groups and fans from across the world, with this edition focused on Sören Filipson from Blue Army Sweden.

Sam Jones

2025-08-09T00:00+01:00

Blue Army Sweden

We’re shining a spotlight on supporter groups and fans from across the world, with this edition focused on Sören Filipson from Blue Army Sweden.

Sam Jones

2025-08-09T00:00+01:00

Blue Army Sweden

We’re shining a spotlight on supporter groups and fans from across the world, with this edition focused on Sören Filipson from Blue Army Sweden.

Sam Jones

2025-08-09T00:00+01:00

Blue Army Sweden

We’re shining a spotlight on supporter groups and fans from across the world, with this edition focused on Sören Filipson from Blue Army Sweden.

Sam Jones

2025-08-09T00:00+01:00

Officially created in Hallsberg in January 1999, Blue Army Sweden boasts 35 members from all over the country, from Umeå in the north to Malmö in the south. Many live in Hallsberg, a small suburb located within Örebro, Sweden’s sixth biggest city.

Incredibly, several became Foxes fans as far back as the late 1960s, when Swedish television programme, Tipsextra, which ran until 1995, started to broadcast English football matches.

Sören himself became a City supporter on 29 November, 1969, when the old Second Division fixture between Leicester and Cardiff City was shown. Even though the Bluebirds were 2-1 winners on the day, Sören has remained a Fox ever since, opened up to a whole new world of LCFC content.

Despite less TV coverage of the Foxes being available in Sweden during the 1970s, the number of fans continued to grow, becoming members of the then ‘Leicester City Supporters Club’.

Sören and Kenneth, who went to school together, still carry their cherished club pins from back in the day.

Speaking about the start of his love for the Club, Sören commented: “The first Leicester game [on TV] was against Cardiff – I fell in love with the style of play.

“Unfortunately, they lost 2-1, but they played brilliantly and then a couple of games later they showed the game against Sunderland in the FA Cup and won.”

Fast forward three decades and Blue Army Sweden was born when Sören and Kenneth, together with fellow supporter Leif, travelled to London to see their team play live for the first time – against Wimbledon.

A freezing cold Selhurst Park greeted them in March 1999, but the trio soon warmed up, celebrating when Steve Guppy scored what proved to be the only goal of the game just six minutes in. A rocket from the left winger saw City claim all three Premier League points and gave Sören and co a day to remember.

He recalled: “It was hilarious. It was so cold that day that at half-time we bought a coffee just to warm ourselves; not to drink it, but just to hold on to.”

Meeting Jocky from Weybridge, a Leicester supporter since birth, the idea for the group was born.

“When I come to Leicester, he [Jocky] still comes up and we watch games together,” he added.”

Other members, meanwhile, have different stories, with names such as Keith Weller and Frank Worthington offering a first taste of the Foxes in action.

Making trips to watch Leicester in person on occasions, Sören recounted some of those tales from years gone by, while the group also gathers for watch parties when the schedule allows.

“We don’t advertise anything; people find us,” he shared. “At Leicester, we are a family. When we meet, we are really good friends.

“As Sweden is a very long country, we don’t meet as often as we would like. And when Leicester is playing in the Championship, very few games are shown on regular TV, so this season we´ve only managed to get together one time. That was at a pub in Stockholm and there were 13 of us present.

“We met former Leicester City Manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in the Manager’s Lounge at King Power Stadium after the Remembrance fixture against Derby County in 2010.

“Then the 2-2 draw with West Ham United in April 2016 on the way to the Premier League title, with [Leonardo] Ulloa’s penalty late on, wow!”

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