In the 2018/2019 season, A3 Basket Umeå won the Swedish Championship gold and last season the team went to the semifinals.
But until next season, the team will not be part of SBL Dam.
On its website, the Swedish Basketball Association, SBBF, announces that A3 is withdrawing from the series.
“The Swedish Basketball Association has recently conducted a dialogue with A3 Basket about the association’s financial situation, which includes large debts to the Swedish Tax Agency.”
Ulrik Berg was appointed to a controlling role by the board during the pandemic to keep control of the finances. During the spring, his work has been forced to take up more space.
– The big reason is that we have not received the payments from the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth that have been decided and that we have disputed in the administrative court. We ended up in a new debt trap because of this, says Berg.
SBBF has requested an overall picture of the association’s debt situation, a budget, and an organizational / sports plan for the future. This information would form the basis for a board decision on whether A3 would be allowed to participate in SBL Dam next season.
A3 Basket has not given feedback on any of the issues raised, but has instead on 30/6 announced that they choose to withdraw from the team from SBL Dam “, the association writes on its website.
– We were pretty sure a few weeks ago that this will not work, we had nothing to deliver. For those who have been doing this for ten years and have been in the playoffs every year, it probably feels very heavy, says Berg.
SBBF also announces that the league will consist of eleven teams in the 2022/23 season.
Umeå will be the fourth club to withdraw from SBL women for the coming season. Helsingborg, Wetterbygden and Borås have already done the same. Newly started Sjuhärad then got a place in Borås.
KLIPP: That was when Umeå took their historic Swedish Championship gold
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