Mjällby has delivered the latest heartwarming underdog story in European soccer by winning the Swedish league title against all the odds.
A team playing its matches in a fishing village of around 800 people beside the Baltic Sea, Mjällby should not have been a threat to Sweden's traditional big clubs — not least nearby Malmö, which has a record 24 Allsvenskan titles.
Yet they've joined a list of unlikely league title winners in Europe down the years who continue to give hope to the smaller teams. Here's some of them:
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Leicester (2016)
There's only one place to start because it's perhaps soccer's greatest fairy tale.
A season after narrowly surviving relegation from the Premier League, Leicester — at preseason odds of 5,000-1 — stunned a bunch of Europe's best and richest clubs by

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