From midnight on 19 August, at least five days' quarantine applies to those traveling to Iceland. For the Swedish football ladies, it is an equation that does not go together.

The European Championship qualifier away against Iceland is scheduled for September 22, and only five days earlier, Sweden will host Hungary in Gothenburg. The quarantine period is simply not up to par.

- The entry rule applies to everyone. But it is working from the Icelandic association to get an exception for the Swedish national team, says Sweden's press manager Fredrik Madestam.

Talking to Uefa

Despite the stricter restrictions, the Icelandic planning continues for the home match against Sweden, as well as the one against Latvia on 17 September, to end.

- We are investigating whether it is possible to get an exception. We are in discussions with both Uefa (European Football Association) and our authorities, but we are still planning based on the matches being played. We can not do anything else, says Thorvaldur Ingimundarson, team manager for Iceland's women's national team.

If it is not possible to play the matches, there are a few different scenarios. Iceland-Sweden should actually have been played already in June but was postponed due to the corona pandemic, and an alternative is to move the match forward further. Another is to play on a neutral level.

Can be pushed forward

- The European Championships are not until 2022, so there is time to play the matches next year as well. It is not possible in the same way on the men's side, says Thorvaldur Ingimundarson.

- Uefa also has some neutral venues, but some were in Greece, among other places, and they are closing down there right now. Everything changes from week to week. We are not going to complain but it is really difficult to try to arrange international football matches right now. But that may not be the most important thing in life either.

In any case, Sweden's home match against Hungary on September 17 does not seem to be threatened at the moment.

- No not right now. But what you have learned above all this spring and summer is that what is true today does not have to be true tomorrow, says Fredrik Madestam.