The public health authority's new recommendation is that events with more than 500 people should not be held.

This means, for example, that major sporting events, big concerts, fairs and conferences will either be set or performed on a very small scale.

As for the quarterfinals of the Swedish Cup this weekend, all matches will be played - but behind closed doors.

- What I can say is that the matches will be played without an audience. It is determined, confirms the Swedish Football Association's secretary general Håkan Sjöstrand to SVT Sport.

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The same is true with the Sweden-Russia international, which is played at the Friends arena on March 28.

- Yes that's how it is. In this context, we will go out as soon as possible with information on where to turn if you bought a ticket to get the money back, he says.

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