Last week, SVT Sport was able to reveal that there has been a huge increase in the amount of money invested in Swedish training matches, a direct result of the corona pandemic stopping virtually every other sport in the world.

There is also a rush of match fixers for these items. Last week, for example, a training match between two Division 4 teams was canceled because they saw a great risk of match fixing.

"Totally unacceptable!"

The Swedish Football Association's secretary general Håkan Sjöstrand now demands a ban on games on training matches with teams from series lower than division 2.

- It is totally unacceptable! Being offered that type of game object at all shows that the gaming industry does not take responsibility and is unable to regulate this in a sufficiently good way themselves, he tells SVT Sport.

What should you do?

- These matches should not be offered.

New regulations on referral

Social Security Minister Ardalan Shekarabi (s) is responsible minister. He is now opening up to the fact that there may be legislation similar to the one that Sjöstrand requires. He says that the Gaming Inspectorate has a new set of rules on a referral basis, and such a ban can be included.

- The authority has been commissioned to issue regulations. They have received comments, including demands that games on matches in lower divisions be banned. But we have given very clear instructions to the Gaming Inspectorate in Swedish legislation: The views that come in from the sports movement must be taken into account, he says.