The Development of Swedish Sport Until the 1930s

In the early Swedish academic sport history, sport was framed in terms of a popular movement (which has also been the self-identification of the Swedish Sport Confederation). Eventually Swedish sport historians began scrutinising the commercial aspects of Swedish sport history as well, although this is still an under researched aspect. In this chapter we will see that in Sweden, as in other European countries, sport was organised, commercialised and developed into a mass phenomenon during the first third of the twentieth century.