Two weeks ago, SVT Sport was able to reveal that the Swedish floor giant Iksu, who already announced in April that their future was threatened due to financial problems, hoped to remain in SSL under another club's flag.
It was, however, a matter of fact that another Umeå club, namely Team Thorengruppen, would get through an appeal with the Swedish Board of Association's legal committee. They asked that they be first on the vacancy list for SSL, because Rig Umeå IBF (who won the All Swede for the Thorengruppen) does not have the right to qualify for SSL.
Falun and Lund moved upThus, during a regular season, the Thorene group would receive that qualifying spot instead. But because of the corona pandemic, the qualifying game was canceled, and two other series winners (Falun and Lund) were moved up instead, without the Thorene group getting the chance.
Since then, Gothenburg has been one on the vacancy list for SSL, but now the Thorengruppen has got through its appeal and will instead be one on the list. Thus, all indications are that Iksu is now withdrawing from SSL for financial reasons and that a majority of the players who won SM gold this spring instead take the step to the Thorengruppen, which thus gets an SSL place.
- I'll meet my board for the week. We have not made any formal decision, but we can take that to the week, ”says Iksus sports manager and CEO Margareta Ericsson Lif to SVT Sport, but in the next breath suggests that the board is most likely to make the decision to withdraw from SSL:
- We have said that we do not have the financial resources to have an SSL law. So of course it is in the direction of danger, of course.
"It's funny"Margareta Ericsson Lif also explains that she is very happy about today's message from the legal committee:
- It's fun that the Umeå floorball town gets one for SSL teams. It's just fun, I think.
In today's decision by the legal committee, which came after what Cristian Almström described for SVT Sport as legal table tennis, the decision was justified as follows:
“The benefits that accrue to a series winner in Allsvenskan Norra must, according to the regulations, accrue to the next law. When RIG Umeå IBF placed in third best place for promotion to SSL and who has ascertained their right accrues to subsequent teams in that series, their right according to TB can not be overlooked by the rules on vacancy in the series requirements. The Thorene group IBK will thus enter RIG Umeå IBF's place and be placed highest on the vacancy list for SSL ladies ”.