The last time a Swedish champion was crowned was in 2019 and the champion team Frölunda reported a financial gain of SEK 8.6 million.
Rögle makes his Swedish Championship final debut this year, while Växjö has made two Swedish Championship finals and won two golds since 2015. The first gold gave an economic profit of SEK 13.3 million, while the victory in 2018 generated 5 million in profit.
How the final clubs' final financial results will be for the pandemic season 2020-21 is not really clear yet.
Several SHL clubs have announced crash losses, Rögle and Växjö seem to be doing somewhat less badly.
Rögle expects a loss of between 0 and 5 million.
- It will land there somewhere.
We make financial statements last April, so we get a lot of costs in this year's financial statements and some compensation only next year.
So the financial statements will be a bit strange, says Koch about the fact that the upcoming support package from the RF / government, which will compensate for loss of income in the playoffs, will not be distributed until June.
"Can't be upset"
Växjö expects to make a small profit for the regular season, but how big the costs will be for the playoffs is unclear.
- We are working on the financial statements, so I do not want to give any figures, there will be too many guesses, says Växjö's CEO Johan Markusson, the former team captain who has his shirt hoisted in the arena.
- We believe that we can handle the basic series with black numbers thanks to the contributions from RF, he adds.
During the season, Växjö also received an ownership contribution of SEK 5 million.
After over a year of pandemics, club leaders are refined.
Both Markusson and Koch agree that sports consider the financial backside.
- It is not possible to be angry, we are extremely happy about the successes we have had and in the long term it is good for both the region and the club that things are going so well.
Then it's a year when it costs more than we get in, says Koch.
Burning numbers
Prior to this season, Växjö had SEK 30 million in equity, Rögle just over SEK 10 million.
For Skåneklubben, which has never been close to these successes, it hurts more.
The team could have gone far even last year, Rögle was third in the regular season, but then the playoffs were canceled when the corona pandemic set the claws in the world.
- There are two playoffs for a club that is not normally spoiled with it.
There we have lost the opportunity of 10-15 million kronor in revenue per year due to the pandemic.
It would have been money that would have been very nice to have in the coffers in the long term, says Koch.