[1][2] The first club to lift the trophy was Hammarby IF in 2001 and most recently Malmö FF in 2024.

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.

In 2010 Dagens Nyheter wrote an article where goldsmith Peter Gustafsson told the newspaper that his old colleague Ingemar Eklund who made the trophy had engraved "Bajen Forever" on the inside of the trophy.

Malmö FF have held the trophy a record ten times.