Piteå wants travel compensation - "Not our fault that many live in the wrong part of Sweden"

All clubs are affected by the postponement of the business and recently Piteå got a new bang when the source of income Piteå Summer Games was canceled.

- It's troublesome. We will sort this out in some way, but we will get hurt from it. We do not know how all Swedes will play. There we will probably go on a slump with more expensive travel costs and that is a very large part of our costs. Now we have Umeå at a distance of 22 miles, but otherwise the closest match is Uppsala so every away match is by air. It costs huge money, says Rikard Fahlman.

The Chairman considers that the high travel costs incurred by the Northern Laws are not sustainable.

- If you want to have teams from the northern part of Sweden in the highest series, it must have some kind of travel cost distribution. It is not our fault that many are living in the wrong part of Sweden. Something needs to be done. You have such a distribution on the judges side and if you want to have teams from the north then you have to realize that we cannot be burdened with the travel expenses we do.

Piteå has already lost a lot of money on trips that have not been lost.

- Although we have not started traveling, we already have 100,000 left for tickets we cannot cancel. For a men's Swedish club it is no money, but for a ladies' Swedish club it is big money.

Elite football women, which is the interest organization for the two highest leagues on the women's side, thinks that it is up to the clubs in damallsvenskan to discuss a travel cost distribution - something that already exists in the elite.

“We act on behalf of our clubs and distribute the funds we can on the basis of a collective decision. If Piteå wants such a solution, it needs to be drawn with other clubs in damallsvenskan. The EFD has no additional funds to distribute beyond what we already do, "writes Secretary-General Tomas Hoszek in a text message to SVT Sport.

One possible measure that could help Piteå in the coming season is if you can reduce travel costs by clumping away matches.

- It must be so. We take those discussions about the game schedule and that's where they are in the discussions, ”says Fahlman.

It also opens Hoszek for.

"We try with the help of the competition department at SvFF to create such a sporting fair series and if it works to save costs through such a solution then it is obviously something we look at," he writes.