SVT Sport broadcasts more than 50 matches from the men's and women's basketball leagues during the season.

The initiative begins on Saturday afternoon with the women's league meeting Högsbo-Norrköping.

- Högsbo is a success story.

The club lost many players after sensationally reaching the Swedish Championship final in 2019, but was still involved and fought at the top last season.

Now several of those players have returned.

I see the Gothenburg team as the main challenger, closely followed by Luleå and A3 Umeå, to Alvik.

- Norrköping is one of the teams that can be the surprise of the season.

The team, like Södertälje, has the capacity to disrupt the top teams.

"High-class players"

The league started secretly already on Thursday, but this weekend all the teams are up and running.

And it will be an interesting start to the season:

- The initial rounds will probably offer a blissful mix of energy explosion in combination with ring rust.

The big challenge for players and coaches will be the management of training planning, when the game schedule may change due to matches having to be moved, believes Egnell, who also finds a positive side effect of the pandemic:

- The troops have been filled with high-class Swedish players who normally play abroad.

You see today's match in the player above.