[2] A year later, Göteborgs Bollklubb were founded, and the club had amongst other sports football on the programme.
In 1880, the first set of rules for Swedish football were published in the book Fria Lekar.
He had visited England to study sports and returned to write down his experiences in the book.
[3] Instead, five years later in 1885, Göteborgs BK along with the leading clubs in Stockholm (Stockholms Bollklubb founded 1879) and Visby (Visby Bollklubb) met and established a set of rules that were to dominate the Swedish football scene in the following years.
By 1895, association football had outrivaled the Swedish variant, with much help by the English, Scottish and Australian immigrant workers that introduced the modern code at their workplaces.