In September, the Swedish Football Association chose to move the men's national team's January tour from Doha in Qatar after they were criticized for their choice.
However, the World Cup qualifier continues until the main tournament which will be decided in the country during the winter of 2022. A championship that has met with great criticism due to lack of human rights and reports of thousands of deaths among guest workers in the country.
"This week's World Cup qualifier has made me think about how it would have felt as a woman to travel to Qatar next year.
The truth is that I had had mixed feelings about it, to say the least ", writes the women's national team's Magdalena Eriksson in a column on Inews.
During the spring, several national teams, including the Norwegian and German, marked against Qatar and demonstrated for human rights with the help of jerseys before their World Cup qualifiers.
No similar action was ever seen from the Swedish national team.
"I have not heard many of the players express an opinion yet.
I'm a little disappointed with the Swedish players because they do not take more position.
I do not expect everyone to have an opinion, but I encourage those who have it to express them, because the players have a great platform ", writes Magdalena Eriksson.
"Want to encourage taking a stand"
Despite protests and threats of a boycott, the tournament will end as planned November 21-December 18, 2022. Eriksson now wants to encourage players to try to make something good out of the situation.
"As a gay woman, I would not have chosen to go on holiday to Qatar where homosexuality is illegal.
In the end, I think there are two ways to go - either you boycott completely or you go there and are clear about what you stand for.
If teams like England (and hopefully Sweden) qualify for the World Cup, I want to encourage them to take a stand and say something, then maybe we will get something good out of this situation ", writes Eriksson.
SvFF has previously commented negatively on the decision to host the World Cup in Qatar.
"When FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar in 2010, the use of guest workers in the country was well known and it has continued during the period when much of the World Cup infrastructure has been built.
Based on our values, the Swedish Football Association is of the firm opinion that the decision to grant the tournament to Qatar was wrong ", SvFF wrote in an open letter to Fifa in the spring.