The proportion of foreign players in the damallsvenskan will be greater.

In 2017 and 2018, about 80 percent of the players were Swedish.

In the years since, the share has been just over 70 percent, figures from the statistics company Gracenote show.

In this year's edition, the figure is currently 66 percent.

SVT Sport has compared the troops in the established Damallsvenska clubs in 2019 with the troops in 2022. The figures show that while the number of foreign players has increased in the troops, talents younger than 20 years

increased.

But many of them have no, or little, playing time in the A-team.

"Is that the question we need to solve"

AIK's sports director Anne Mäkinen sees it as a crucial issue for the league.

- This is the question we need to solve.

How do we solve match time ?, says AIK's sports manager Anne Mäkinen.

- Now we have four or five players on loan and in association collaborations.

It's a puzzle to put together.

It's not so easy to come as a junior and take a place.

Right now, the step is far too big for many.

You have to have patience and a plan on how to support their development.

The Damallsvenska circuit has changed as the best players in the league now leave for games in major European leagues.

The sports managers' jobs as well.

- You have to put a lot more resources and energy into developing your own players.

I believe in that very much.

There you have to have a longer perspective.

It is something we discuss in our club daily, how we should do it better, says Anne Mäkinen.

Are there sufficient incentives to invest in your own talents?

- If you dare to look five to ten years ahead.

You want to develop your own players.

Of course, you have to look elsewhere as well and find the talents that are available.

That market will grow and grow and the transfer market will get bigger and bigger.

This development will go faster and it is important to try to predict what is to come.

"Developing women's football"

In Kristianstad, the number of foreign players, and young players, in the squad has increased in recent years.

Sports director Lovisa Ström is fairly new to his position.

She sees opportunities in the new landscape.

- You have to find your own talents and look in a little other direction abroad.

Of course the competition will be tougher, but it's good too, I think.

It develops women's football, even though it may be tougher for women's Swedes.

What do you think the damallsvenskan will look like in five years?

- I think we will be a league that has both foreign and Swedish, maybe younger, players that we nurture and that might get somewhere else.

How important is it to get paid for them?

- Of course very important.

It is definitely going in the right direction and there have been some sales.

Then you always want it to go faster.

The expert on the talent problem: "Sweden will not catch up"

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The expert on the talent problem: "Sweden will not catch up"