Lennart Johanssons Pokal
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| Lennart Johanssons Pokal | |
|---|---|
 Lennart Johanssons Pokal | |
| Awarded for | Winning Allsvenskan and thus becoming Swedish champions |
| Presented by | Swedish Football Association |
| First award | 2001 |
| Currently held by | Mjällby AIF (1st title) |
| Website | svenskfotboll.se |
Lennart Johanssons Pokal is a trophy awarded annually by the Swedish Football Association to the winning team of the Swedish top division, Allsvenskan. The winner of Allsvenskan is also crowned Swedish Champions.
The trophy was introduced in 2001 following media publicity in early November 2000 that Clarence von Rosen, the man after whom the previous trophy was named, had Nazi sympathies during the 1930s.[1][2] The first club to lift the trophy was Hammarby IF in 2001 and the most recent champions are Mjällby AIF in 2025. Malmö FF have won the trophy the most times (ten).
The trophy is made of silver and has a football mounted on a socle with two large handles on each side of the socle. The trophy was designed by Anja Nibbler Kothe and was inspired by a trophy that the Sweden men's national football team had been awarded for winning the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The trophy is named after former UEFA president Lennart Johansson, who was in office between 1990 and 2007. The thought behind the trophy was to connect the biggest trophy a Swedish club could win with the biggest Swedish football leader.
