Norway
The Oslo Trolls formed in 2005 as Norway's first Australian rules football club, but didn't play their first match until hosting the Karlstad Dragons from Sweden in August 2008. Prior to this, players from the Trolls had travelled to western Sweden to play in club matches with the teams in Karlstad and Gothenburg.
The second club to form in the Oslo area were founded in early 2009 in the town of Ås. This club is nicknamed the Ås Battlers, after the Australian expression Aussie battler, due to the name of the town sounding similar to the first syllable of Aussie. The Oslo Trolls and Ås Battlers played their first match against each other in August 2009.
In May 2009, a group started playing social matches in the northern city of Tromsø. This club is currently the most northerly Australian rules team in the world.
The Oslo Trolls changed their name to Oslo Crows in 2010, with an affiliation agreement with professional club the Adelaide Crows from the Australian Football League. In 2012 they split the team in Oslo East and Oslo West to make a 3 team cup with Ås. It was called Kenguru Cup (Norwegian for Kangaroo) and was played over 5 rounds where all teams met each other once in each round. (Similar to home and away season in AFL) The first winners of the Keguru Cup was Oslo East.
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