The spread of the corona virus hits the sports world hard. For Högsbo, the worst blow is that the club's big basketball festival - from which two-thirds of the association's total annual revenue comes - cannot be implemented as planned with the 740 notified teams.

- We live on it. It's going to be a very, very tough year, I should say. That is why we have to look at all the parts so that we can still have a business left for next year. The whole association is at that festival, says Carina Peleg, head of operations, to GP.

The tournament, which is scheduled for May 21-24, is not officially canceled and Peleg tells GP that they are trying to find an alternative solution.

All Högsbo employees are laid off and only work 40 percent. The A-team players' contract expired on March last year and the association has been promised some financial help from the municipality in the form of not having to repay their loans during the year.

But the question is whether it will save Högsbo, which is one of Sweden's largest basketball associations with around 700 members, from bankruptcy.

- What can I say? We are all working too hard not to get into that situation. Right now I don't see that risk, but ask me in July so maybe we have a completely different picture. We continue to plan ahead and are notified to Basketligan, but at the same time we have completely pulled in the handbrake and are sitting still. That's how it is now, Peleg tells GP.

This year, the playoffs were canceled due to the corona virus, but before that Högsbo finished third in the series.

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