She is experienced in board contexts and has also been on Umeå IK's board in recent years. But now a tough task awaits. To both build up financial confidence in the club, but also to make the sporting side lift in the long run.

"What we can do is help is develop and train young football girls. To get to all-Swedish level and national team level But we cannot finance such a development ourselves. We need to hook arms with the business community and the municipality. They also have little to prove. Do you want a women's team in the fine room or not?

Tough last year

Last year was tough for the venerable umeå club. Between 2000 and 2008, Umeå IK won the damallsvenskan seven times in nine years and the Uefa Women's Cup (now the Champions League) in 2003 and 2004. Last year, UIK fell into an economic crisis and was very close to going bankrupt.

After a loss to Kristianstad in the last round, the team also went out of the highest series.