AFC Eskilstuna

FC Café Opera was created in 1991 by Italian born restauranteer Alessandro Catenacci who named the club after Café Opera which he owned. They started out in division 8 of the Swedish football league system but only nine years later they had made it to the second tier Superettan.[2]

Football Club Väsby United was formed in 2005 when the two Stockholm clubs FC Café Opera United and Väsby IK FK merged. The new club replaced FC Café Opera United in the Superettan making it the youngest club competing at this level. Väsby United was a feeder club to AIK who participated in the second and third divisions of the Swedish football league system. The club played in Division 1 Norra which is the third tier of Swedish football when they became AFC United.[3]

AFC United was founded when FC Väsby United increased their cooperation Division 3 club Athletic FC in late 2012.[4] They played their home matches at Skytteholms IP in Solna until the end of the 2016 season. Athletic FC was founded in 2007 and defunct in 2012, they then became part of AFC United, the club that later became known as AFC Eskilstuna.

In 2012, Athletic FC played in Swedish football Division 3 Norra Svealand which is the fifth tier of Swedish football.[5] They played their home matches at the Skytteholms IP in Solna.[6]

The club was affiliated to Stockholms Fotbollförbund.[7]

During the 2016 season the club management decided to uproot and leave Solna and move to Eskilstuna and Tunavallen before the 2017 season. They also changed their name to AFC Eskilstuna.

The team were winless, having only acquired 4 points from the opening 12 matches and were firmly rooted to the bottom of the league table.[8] Michael Jolley was announced as new manager on 13 June 2017.[9] Under Jolley's coaching they took 15 points from the next 16 games.[10] A 3–1 victory over Malmö FF on 19 August 2017 in particular provided the biggest shock of the season in Allsvenskan.[11] However, they were eventually relegated to Superettan on 23 October 2017 following a spirited fight when Jönköpings Södra IF defeated Kalmar FF 2–0, meaning AFC Eskilstuna could no longer reach the qualifying position.[12] Jolley departed ways with AFC Eskilstuna on 9 January 2018 by mutual consent, after being unable to agree on the future direction of the club.[13]

On 15 January 2018, Nemanja Miljanović became the manager, after their relegation to the Superettan.[14]

As of 6 September 2023[18]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  NED Nick Wolters 2 DF  SWE Robin Sundgren 3 DF  ENG Zeki Fryers 4 DF  SWE Jesper Modig 5 MF  SWE Hussein Cabdi 6 MF  ENG Ryan Williams 7 FW  PLE Samir Maarouf 8 MF  SWE Eddie Tran 10 MF  USA Marcelo Palomino 11 FW  SWE Mattias Mitku 12 GK  SWE Famara Touray 13 DF  NGA Aliyu Yakubu 14 FW  SWE Oskar Lindberg 15 DF  SWE Victor Fors 16 MF  SWE Ishak Shamoun

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  SWE Ludwig Malachowski Thorell 18 MF  SWE Naod Ghebrekristos 19 MF  SWE Leo Lif 20 FW  GHA Emmanuel Agyemang 21 DF  SWE Ali Suljić 22 DF  SWE Theodor Hansemon 23 MF  SWE Armin Culum 24 FW  SWE Viktor Götesson 25 DF  SWE Mattis Adolfsson (on loan from Östers IF) 35 GK  SWE Wahlfrid Nilsson 43 MF  GHA Abdul Halik Hudu 70 FW  ESP Sergio Mendigutxia — DF  SWE Fabian Falkstrand — DF  RSA Yagan Sasman — FW  SWE Adam Larsson

• Superettan:
  • Runners-up (1): 2016
• Division 1 Norra:
  • Winners (1): 2014
  • Runners-up (2): 2007, 2011

• Svenska Cupen
  • Runners-up (1): 2019