Any idea how games can be watched internationally without having to pay for monthly fees? Even highlights will do. Thanks!
Unfortunately they are often quite short, but highlights are available here https://www.obosdamallsvenskan.se/play/Highlights?categoryId=1334
5 rounds left and a lot could be decided today! Häcken meeting Rosengård in the top clash. Häcken really needs a win or the title will surely go to Rosengård, 6 points between them right now. At the bottom it's the last chance for Växjö. Still 8 points below the relegation line, need to beat AIK today or it's over for sure. Fight for 3rd CL spot still feels wide open with several teams involved, but likely to go to Eskilstuna United, Kristianstad or Hammarby. Eskilstuna with the 4 and 5 point advantage over those two but with much tougher schedule. Hammary set to set a new attendance record for the league in the next round. Already over 10000 tickets for the derby against AIK. Current record is 9413 from Linköping v Umeå back in 2008.
They're also streaming some full games for viewers outside Sweden, on Wnited.tv - this weekend will be Häcken v Vittsjö and Hammarby v AIK. It's free, but sign-in needed. For those who can get "Swedish internet" weekly games are back on the main TV channel, SVT1, since the mid-season break.
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I've read the attendance is in the range of 18-19 000. At least the ticket sales indicated that the days leading up to this game. A Swedish record for sure.
1447216356483637252 is not a valid tweet id 18537 is the new Damallsvenskan attendance record, almost double the old record from 2008. I've mentioned before that Hammarby have the best fans in the league and today they took it to the next level in the Stockholm derby. Hammarby beat AIK 4-1 (Janogy, Carlsson, Þorvaldsdóttir, Jansson (pen) - Hayashi) and kept their Champions League hopes alive. Highlights: https://tv.aftonbladet.se/video/333815/hammarby-vann-historiska-matchen Some great scenes in Stockholm a couple of hours before match when the Hammarby fans marched to the stadium. 1447162663700676610 is not a valid tweet id The other results from this round: Rosengård - Linköping 2-1 (Schough, Troelsgaard - Kanu) Häcken - Vittsjö 0-0 Häcken dropping points at home means Rosengård is now very close to the title. Kristianstad - Eskilstuna United 2-0 (Welin, Nild) Battle for the 3rd Champions League spot still wide open as Eskilstuna have both Häcken and Rosengård left to play in the remaining 3 matches. KIF Örebro - Djurgården 1-0 (Öhman) Växjö - Piteå 1-0 (N Karlsson) Växjö managed to finally win their first match of the season in the 19th round and kept their theoretical hopes of avoiding relegation alive. Conceding 26 goals in 19 matches is pretty good for a team at the bottom, but their big problem all season was scoring goals. Umeå IK secured promotion this weekend so will be back in Damallsvenskan next season.
FC Rosengård secured the league title with two rounds to go. 1449790244052783105 is not a valid tweet id Häcken never gave themselves a chance to catch them after some poor form lately. After they beat Rosengård at home in early October they had two draws in the league and a couple of poor performances in CL. Some chaos at the club now and Julia Zigiotti and Emma Kullberg were benched in the last match after not renewing their contracts. They have now also fired the coach. Växjö DFF are now relegated. They never managed to crack the code on scoring goals this season so it's fair they are going down. The only excitement left is the battle for 3rd place. Eskilstuna United suffered two straight defeats and were caught by Kristianstad. Looks like the two will battle it out but Vittsjö is lurking 3 points behind if they should slip up. Kristianstad must be the favourites as they play the bottom two teams. Remaining matches: Kristianstad: Växjö (h), Piteå (b) Eskilstuna: Rosengård (a), Häcken (h), Vittsjö: AIK (a), Örebro (h)
Sweden WNT, seems like they have some problem with both Seger and Asslani away they need at least one of them. And the succession of the Captaincy seem very clear now: Seger is the Captain until she retires or get cut. Then Asslani takes over, should be good for about cycel after Seger leaves since she is four years younger. Then Magdalena Eriksson takes over, four years younger than Asslani. Btw that is how it goes now when one or two of them are not on the field. I was surprised during the Olympic when I saw the armband om someone else, but none of the three was on the field then.
Very interesting penultimate round where all teams cracked under pressure in chase of the 3rd Champions League spot. Kristianstad lost at home against already relegated Växjö but remain 3rd. Eskilstuna less surprisingly lost away at title celebrating Rosengård. Vittsjö could have been right up their with them but lost as well, as did Hammarby. Out of nowhere KIF Örebro is now in the race too. Remaining matches: Eskilstuna v Häcken Piteå v Kristianstad Vittsjö v Örebro Kristianstad still in the driver's seat but heading up north to Piteå in November to get a win is never easy. Häcken with a new coach looked better again so not easy for Eskilstuna either. Vittsjö and Örebro both just have to win and hope for the best.
Damallsvenskan is expanding to 14 clubs next season, right? What do you guys think about it? My personal opinion, although it's not rooted in any sort of expertise, is that this expansion might come a bit too late. When the league was the destination for far more foreign top players, there was actually a good case for it, but now I fear there will just be more cannon fodder and one-sided scorelines. Top Swedish players seem to flee the league at an earlier stage than a number of years ago as well.
Yes I think it probably about the right time, the difference between the bottom team in Damallsvenskan and the top teams in Elitettan is very small today that was not true just a few years back. As for lopesided result, since there are normally between none and one team that can be truthfully be called cannon fodder each year I think that is probably not much of a problem. Btw, the nummer of foreign players is about constant. I think that the fact they are not the top star now, more up and comming or the rank and file WNT players are probably making the field more equal not less.
I wonder if the fact that the foreign players tend not to be anymore top stars could have to do with the recent shift that basically led English/Spanish teams to replace Swedish teams in the last stages of the UEFA Women's Champions' League to battle with French/German ones. Or if it's the other way around: Swedish teams can't reach the semifinals of the UWCL anymore because they don't have top international players, or top international players tend not to sign for Swedish teams because they're afraid that they won't reach UWCL' semifinals? Which came first? It's a fact that the last time a Swedish team was in the semifinals of the Champions' League was in 2013-2014, 8 years ago (When Tyresö even reached the final), although it have to be said that there almost always have been a Swedish team in the quarter-finals. In the first decade of the 2000s, though, it was common to see a Swedish team in the semifinal, while in the second decade in wasn't anymore.
I'm personally not really a fan of the expansion, I would rather see the top players concentrated in 12 clubs than 14 for better overall quality of the teams. Especially after seeing how badly prepared Rosengård and Häcken have looked for Champions League this year. But Rosengård and Häcken are sadly really the only clubs with the money to attract all the best Swedish players now and even struggling with that. The rest of the top players are fairly evenly scattered over all the other teams. Bottom teams of the league ar probably as good as in the past but the top teams comparatively worse and fewer. Too many good players also seem to be staying in Elitettan as their conditions for playing football there are probably not that much worse. As Jan said the gap has probably never been smaller between Damallsvenskan and Elitettan so not sure it will make much difference to quality between 12 and 14 teams at this point. All the 6 matches between the Elitettan and Damallsvenskan teams in the cup this season had very close scores, five 1 goal wins and ended with 2 Damallsvenskan teams being knocked out. So even if I don't like the expansion I'm hopeful that the overall quality will at least not be much affected, other than by the gradual decline of the league we have been seeing anyway. It's all about the money and the big clubs around Europe finally investing in their womens teams. But I would say that the Swedish FA completely failed to utilize the fact that they had one of the very top leagues in the world. They never managed to get any really big sponsors or any good TV deals, and now it's too late. League likely would have gradually lost ground anyway, there's just not enough money in Swedish football. The big Swedish men's clubs also joined the party a decade too late, it's only really this year a few of them finally are starting to really care. We've seen Hammarby starting to show ambition in Damallsvenskan this year and with the fans on board. A classic club like IFK Göteborg won promotion to tier 4 yesterday in front of over 2000 fans and the biggest club Malmö FF has been slaughtering opponents in tier 5 this season. Both still years away from even reaching Damallsvenskan. But in the long run they do not have the finances to compete with the big European clubs anyway. I think the league and clubs are now mainly going to have to rely on their good reputation of player development and taking good care players to try and attract up and coming players of decent quality.
Swedish 2nd Tire "Elitettan": 18 Feb: last years 6th placed team Moröns BK drops out. To be replaced by the the team that got closest to promotion last year but failed 22 Feb: Rävåsens IK confirmed to the promotion Elitettan starts April 2nd I hope Rävåsen can get prepared in time and good luck to them. So most likely a team that failed promotion to 3rd tier last year will get promoted to take over the spot left by Rävåsens IK and so on (but so far down in will probably not be noted on Swedish FA's hompeage).
Never knew Svenska Cupen had all those extra rounds! It's like a whole additional cup happening when you don't expect it. (Played in June-Oct 2021, yes, I will reprint the whole thing.) We're now down to the last 16, in 4 groups. Is there a historical reason why the cup is played across two seasons? Swedish football didn't run on a winter schedule, did it? Sad to see Sweden's last European finalists Tyresö FF go out in cup round 1 this time - they sank to the 4th (i.e. 2nd) division after their bankruptcy, but won promotion a while ago to their regional Division 1 (i.e. 3). Also, a new entry to the cup: Trollhättans FK may sound funny to English-speakers but of course, languages don't actually work like that, and 'The name Trollhättan is translated as "troll's bonnet".' ...ah, right. In matches this week, it's the first competitive action of 2022 - in Group 1, Rosengård somewhat stumbled to a 3-0 win over the relegated Växjö, with 2 last-minute goals by Jelena Čanković and Loreta Kullashi. - (Match report by Erling Nilsson / English version) Group 3 has 3 top-division clubs in it, Eskilstuna starting with a 2-1 win over Piteå . The last cupwinners, Häcken, livestreamed their first match in Group 2, a close game, but the camera wasn't close at all. BK Häcken - KIF Örebro youtube.com/watch?v=b5er2yomA2E - Match info: Svensk Fotboll The 14-club Damallsvenskan begins on 26 March - kickoff times here for matchdays 1-10
Not in WoSo and it was abandon over 60 years ago on the men's side. But the Cup have been moved from fall-spring, to spring-fall a few times, always with some kind of idea that it should increase the status of it (that never really seem to work).
It's been like this for about 10 years now. I think the main reason for having group stage in Spring on the men's was to break off the incredibly long pre-season and get some more competitive matches in. On the women's side it also played a part that they wanted competitive matches before the UWCL quarter finals I think. Tough to get those earlier rounds in before the group stage in the same year so that's why they are played the year before. Most of the teams playing on grass will not be able to play at their normal home stadiums during the cup group stage now in March either.
And one can make a case for that it is even longer. Since apart for the team from top three tiers that have a spot in the Swedish Cup the regional FA get spots to award worthy teams in their lower tiers. And most of them use those spots as rewards for placing well in their regional Cup.
Thanks @flax and @JanBalk for the information! This week's live game certainly wasn't at their normal stadium, but I'll take any chance to see football under a roof ... Semi-finalists will be decided in this weekend's games, 12-13 Mar, with all teams on 6 points - Rosengård-Linköping (Group 1), Häcken-Kristianstad (Group 2) and Hammarby-Umeå (Group 4). Umeå won 4-1 over their fellow promoted club, Brommapojkarna. The leaders of Group 3 are Eskilstuna, after beating Piteå and Mallbacken, and these two had their match in the Vinnarhallen: Djurgården - Piteå IF youtube.com/watch?v=AZMXrux0qW8 - Match info: SvFF (Eventually, I realized why the camerawork at Häcken was bad last week. They were using something like one of these creepy things...)
Semi-finals are on the weekend - the first group winners are Rosengård (beat Linköping 4-0). They'll play last year's finalists Eskilstuna, winner of Group C on points, who knocked out Djurgården with a 0-0. The first semi-final is tomorrow, Saturday, it's Hammarby vs Häcken. Hammarby's site called their win "a passable result in Bajenland" (they're lucky they can visit Barbados!), where they beat the Elitettan winners Umeå, 3-2, Madelen Janogy scoring their 3rd. And Häcken are two wins from retaining the cup: BK Häcken 3 - 1 Kristianstad Mille Gejl 8', Johanna Kaneryd 10', 64' / Delaney Baie 40'
And we're off!! Damallsvenskan 2022 has started. Umeå IK - BH Häcken 1-1 (Honkanen - Kaneryd) Played in Umeå March weather. Not even the white chamo shirts helped title contenders Häcken to a win. Great start for newcomers Umeå, but maybe consider letting them play away in the 1st round next season... Hammarby - Eskilstuna United 0-3 (Okobi, Jalkerud, Eckhoff) Terrible display from Hammarby in front of their big home crowd (7.877). Poor in attack and shocking defensively . Much smarter Eskilstuna were more than happy to take advantage of that. AIK - KIF Örebro 2-0 (Hayashi, Danielsson) Good start for AIK who many have as a relegation candidate. Linköping - Vittsjö 1-1 (Takarada - Sällström) With 10 players on pitch Vittsjö managed to come back from one goal down to get a draw. They are still dreaming of getting their little village to Champions League. FC Rosengård - Brommapojkarna 2-0 (Sprung, Larsson) Newcomers Brommapojkarna did well to keep this down to a two goal defeat in a very one-sided affair, but Rosengård can not be happy with their performance and their poor finishing. Djurgården - Piteå 1-4 (Vidlund - Eiriksdottir, Green, Imo, Johansson) Surprisingly big win for Piteå, are the 2018 champions coming alive again this season after a few tough years? Kristianstads DFF - IFK Kalmar 4-0 (van den Bulk, Pridham, Tindell, Tindell) No less than 16 foreign players (7 v 9) were in starting line-ups for this match. Newcomers IFK Kalmar have gone mad and now have 13 foreigners (they are only allowed to use 9 per match) in their squad. Didn't stand a chance here but Kristianstad with a promising start. 1508051004322897924 is not a valid tweet id