SVT Sport has been in contact with all 14 women's Swedish clubs.
Many talk about an inequality compared to the men regarding player sales.
Several of the clubs mention the same thing as a lack on the women's side;
The education allowance that is only available on the men's side.
- There are a few different parts in that, that we would get an education grant, that would only be positive and we want to build a good youth activity, it works hard to get it done and is a very important point, perhaps more important than writing long contract, says Piteå's chairman Per Embretsen.
When a player signs his first professional contract, a sum is paid out to all clubs that the player represented between the ages of 12-21, a sum is also paid out for international transfers up to the player's 23th birthday, then only to the last club that the player represented.
The money is always paid out by the club that the player signs for.
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The grant exists to motivate clubs to foster their own talents, which then generate money for the club.
- It's sickeningly unequal that it (the training allowance ed. note) is not available on the women's side, says Hammarby's sports director Johan Lager.
More clubs want to see training compensation internationally for the ladies as well.
Does Swedish women's football have anything to learn from the men's clubs' player sales of talent?
- We certainly have to learn how to write contracts and how to work with resales and write those contracts, but with education grants... in some way, there needs to be more money centrally for this to take off, says Eskilstuna's Sports Director Lina Bertilsson to SVT Sports.
“Really, really bad”
Kif Örebro's chairman Fredrik Stengarn thinks that Denmark is a leading country in terms of spearhead development.
- We have a real job to do against Uefa and Fifa who have not prioritized this, it is their regulations.
That this matter has not been dealt with is quite frankly really, really bad.
It doesn't feel good that when we step into this development phase, then this (training compensation ed. note) is not in place.
Freja Olofsson went to the USA, now Louisville then to Real Madrid, as far as I know it was perfectly fine with transfer money, but we get zero kroner from the deal, it's a great shame, and it's provocative, he says.
CLIP: Financial crisis in women's Swedish clubs (October 5, 2022)
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Vittsjö is one of the clubs in the women's league that is struggling financially.
Photo: Bildbyrån