Several clubs in financial crisis: "Must increase revenue"

Several damallsvenskan clubs are in financial crisis.

Umeå IK lacks two million kroner to get the finances together.

Eskilstuna United sells players without signing new ones to scrape together for the elite license.

"Makes high demands on professionalisation"

Tomas Hoszek, general secretary at EFD, believes that the clubs must increase their income in terms of sponsors, match income and player sales.

- The development that women's soccer has, which is a growth market where we are really growing nationally and internationally, you need to keep up with that train, he says to SVT Sport.

- It places very high demands on professionalisation, on developing one's organisation, increasing revenue and being able to afford to have employed staff.

"Must be able to sign longer contracts"

SVT Sport has previously reported that women's football lacks a so-called training grant, which provides financial compensation to the clubs that have trained and trained players as juniors, something that FIFA is now investigating.

Tomas Hoszek believes that the issue of education grants, and that the clubs themselves need to sign better contracts, are vital to strengthening the clubs' finances.

- You need to have the finances to sign longer contracts with your players so that the day a foreign club comes, there will be a negotiation, he says.

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