The All-Swedish player wants to move to the fall-spring

It was now all the Swede was supposed to start - but instead of playing the season premiere at home against Kalmar FF at the Tele2 arena, David Fällman is free and hovers, like so many others, in uncertainty.

- I just feel that we have to get the football going this year - with the crowd. If it is June or September ... it will be when it gets, only it gets going, says the 30-year-old.

But how can all Swedes get ready to play if the corona crisis does not allow a premiere until, let's say, in September?

In that case, the time has come, Fällman believes, for Swedish football to switch to autumn-spring.

- I think that would be a great idea. It feels like a good place to do it now, to test it and have such a season in Sweden as well. They have it in Denmark. I think we should test and see if we can manage in Sweden. I hope and believe it, he says.

The Allsvenskan was played from the beginning of autumn-spring, but it was changed in 1958 to the current arrangement of games during a calendar year.

The issue has been raised over the years to go back to autumn-spring, but no change has been realized.

The argument for departing from the current schedule, with a season running from April to November, is mainly that it would benefit Swedish clubs who go out to the European tournaments.

With the current model, the law of all Swedes tends to be broken in the middle of the summer when foreign clubs are most active in the transfer market. For those who still go far in the Champions League or Europa League, an end game can wait, disadvantageously, in the middle of the pre-season in February.

The main reasons for continuing to play spring-autumn are, of course, climate-related.

Playing football in the winter may be to some extent for larger clubs with resources, but not for those who play in the underlying divisions. This is emphasized by Björn Wesström, club director at AIK.

Basically, like David Fällman, he's in for a shift. But he thinks it will be difficult to implement.

- We are open to such a change, but what I have said, and what is AIK's position, is that then we must also find a solution for all the clubs that do not have the same conditions as us.

- We have an arena on which there is a roof, which very few have. This means that a normal sized Division 3 or Division 4 club in Norrland does not have exactly the same conditions to run the business during the season as it would mean, says Wesström.

- It's about finding a system where up and down moves work, regardless of level. It is not just about the All Swede, the Super Eight or the Damall Swede, but it is about a system that must cater to everyone's interests in Swedish football. Whoever solves that nut, beware and step forward.

TT: Otherwise, would this be an opportunity to make such a change to the work?

- Of course it is. But it is very easy when we discuss these issues that we end up at the Swedish level. I'm not so sure that a Division 5 club in Ångermanland is the same reason, says Wesström.

David Fällman realizes the challenges, but stands by: Take the chance and change the system if the all-Swedish start expires on time.

- Most people who have natural grass are well down in the country so they have to take care of their plans, then maybe it can be good. But you do not want to go on and do so that they can change arenas just because the grass does not hold. Then maybe it is not so good in the long run - but I think you should give it a try anyway, he says.

One who agrees is the Coaches' Association chairman Stefan Lundin, former Allsvenskan coach and sports manager for the association Swedish elite football.

He even sketched on a presentation how a shift would go in practice:

- You could start in July / August so that you get the hot months and play out November. Then the last, decisive matches in a rather uncertain climate are avoided. Then you take free December, use January as a build-up phase and start playing in mid-February with the group play in the Swedish Cup. Then you resume the series game in early or mid-March. And so you play until May or June, depending on whether the national team goes to the playoffs in the European Championships or the World Cup, he tells Expressen.

The negative? That such a proposal would mean a long break in the middle of the season.

- It will be an unusual, long break and it is one of the parts that is negative. But since we start the cup game in February, we start the business early. It will be two months that you take a break in December and January. It is not an unusual arrangement if you look at the rest of Europe, says Stefan Lundin.