The fact that the Blekinge club is from the countryside is well illustrated by a number of tractors decorated with Mjällby flags that are lined up along the barely one-mile long country road between E22 and Hällevik.
Already when the championship team made their entrance to the warm-up, the standing grandstand on the away long side was well-filled. The song "We are the champions" was played in the speakers and the players were applauded in time. A few minutes before kick-off, the speaker got the home crowd to join in the chant "SM-gold, SM-gold... "
Anton is one of the long-time supporters who was on site when the gold was secured in Gothenburg and has been looking forward to being part of celebrating his team at home in Hällevik.
I never thought Mjällby would win the SM-gold, he says, wearing a gold hat.
Danish mother on site
The gold is secured, but the Allsvenskan continues and Mjällby still has sporting goals to play for.
Take the point record. But we will also celebrate the players, from the warm-up to after the final signal, says Anton.
Gitte from Horsens in Denmark is also on site at Strandvallen, dressed in a Mjällby scarf.
My son plays for Mjällby, she says.
The son is midfielder Jeppe Kjær, who Mjällby recruited last summer.
It's fantastic, says Gitte about her son starting his stay in Sweden by becoming Swedish champion.
I think they will win 2-0, she adds.
More records in sight
If Gitte's tip turns out to be correct, it means that Mjällby (which currently has 66 points) sets a new Allsvenskan point record (Malmö FF and AIK have previously scored 67 points in one and the same season).
As if this were not enough, Mjällby can also write themselves into the history books as the team with the most wins in an Allsvenskan season. IFK Göteborg's 22 wins, which were recorded in the late 1950s, are the current record that Mjällby will pass with a win in their three final matches.
Mjällby-Norrköping started at 2 pm.
