It was at yesterday's membership meeting that Östersund FK's Deputy Chairman Maria Wilén told the Östersunds-Posten that the financial situation in the club is catastrophically acute.
The cold fact is that ÖFK needs to receive ten million SEK before the month ends, otherwise they can be filed for bankruptcy.
- We are in an acute liquidity crisis. We cannot pay the debt with a player's arm or leg. We're in that seat now. says Deputy Member Leif Widegren to SVT.
If ÖFK is asked for bankruptcy, all the team's results may be deleted, and the entire Swedish table can be rewritten.
Tobias Tibell, lawyer at the Swedish Football Association, thinks that there are two different scenarios if Östersund fails to get the money together in time. However, Tibell is careful to point out that it is only theoretical at present.
- One scenario is that you have the conditions to play the series clearly, the remaining matches during the current season and then the matches go on as usual and the series is counted just as usual. In that scenario, a decision is made when composing the series for 2020. Earlier practice, degradation is a serial level, we had a similar case with Örgryte 2011. Then it was decided that they would be moved down one level and then you need to fill up with a team from below to allsvenskan ahead of that 2020 season, he tells SVT Sport.
The second scenario is much more controversial. That would mean that AIK will be the winners and with seven games left, the gold has its own hands. It would also mean that Gif Sundsvall's opportunities to remain in the series are drastically increasing.
- In the event that Östersund, with a bankruptcy, requests his exit from the Allsvenskan, that is, can not play clearly the remaining matches, then the series is played clearly with the 15 remaining teams and all results found in Östersund's matches throughout the season are canceled. The consequence of such a scenario is that the association is moved down to the district series, ie division 4 and down. The consequence then is that only one team is moved down directly from the Allsvenskan after this season is completed, he says and adds.
- It is very theoretical that we end up there, but I still want to be clear in reporting what the regulations say if we end up there.