When the National Sports Federation distributed the government's support package, it was clear that the clubs in damallsvenskan and the elite were allowed to share SEK 3.6 million. But the big differences in how much the clubs applied for have brought criticism.

The application is based mainly on missing public revenue during the corona pandemic. One of those who think the distribution has become strange is Djurgården's operations manager Ola Danhard.

Djurgården applied for SEK 133,334 and received SEK 42,358.

- We assessed how much we would lose in the audience and in serving at the matches and deducted for plan rent, judges, surrounding costs around the matches and then we applied for that money, says Danhard to SVT Sport.

Do you feel it was a reasonable sum you got?

- Reasonable or not can always be discussed in relation to what we thought we had lost. But when you look at what some other clubs have got, we think it is completely unreasonable.

When you say other clubs that got a lot, what clubs do you think of then?

- I do not comment on individual clubs, I comment on Djurgården in particular and everyone who reads the figures may well see which clubs have received too much and too little.

The club that got the most in crisis support is the Elite Club AIK: SEK 507,560. But they applied for a full SEK 1,712,000.

Kjell Sahlström, CFO of the Swedish Football Association, is the one who was responsible for distributing the support money to the clubs.

- Just the AIK case I remember, they had planned to have a match against BP on May 30 where they would celebrate AIK women's football 50 years at the Friends arena. And it was an event that disappeared, explains Kjell Sahlström and believes that this is probably why AIK estimates that they can have such large non-revenue.

Second most of the women's clubs got Umeå IK, who last season played in the Elitettan. The club applied for SEK 1,260,000 and received SEK 484,676.

The figures can be compared to the reigning Swedish champion FC Rosengård, who last year had the highest audience average in Damallsvenskan: 1467 spectators per match. In Elitettan, AIK had an average of 347 views on their matches, Umeå had 433.

Rosengård applied for SEK 285,000 and received SEK 155,681.

The sport hopes that the government will bring another support package later this year. Ola Danhard then sees a big risk that the clubs are exaggerating their activities to get more money in support.

- I think there is an obvious risk that many will come up with a lot of events that they could not carry out. That is why I think it is very important to have an impartial distribution principle instead of finding stuff. It can also fail, but one must have an impartial way of counting. Some pigs in and others not.

Djurgården and Danhard have therefore put forward a proposal for a different distribution model, which is based on which audience section the clubs had last season. It is one of the points that will be discussed at the meeting tomorrow night, where all clubs in damallsvenskan and elite participate together with the interest organization Elitfotboll Dam.

- It is very strange that there is so much difference between the clubs. After women's football had been awarded an award, the money would have been evenly distributed based on audience figures, instead of those who might have made more advanced applications than others.

Is this a suggestion that you think the other clubs will also support?

- Those who have received more than my proposal will be against it, and those who have received less will probably be for the whole thing.

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