More clubs with higher number of stars. It will be clear when the certification of the elite clubs’ academies for 2023 is presented. One association within the Unicoach project gets a maximum of seven stars. Here are the results for the past year.
– The certification places great demands on the clubs. The ambition is for both the certification model and the clubs to develop all the time. The demands increase every year, so in order to improve in terms of points, you as a club need to take steps and develop. We are starting to see that the clubs are taking player training more seriously and that it is becoming more of a focus in the clubs’ overall strategies. In the long term, it benefits Swedish football and our competitiveness vis-à-vis each other and internationally, says Thomas Hasselgren, academy developer at Swedish Elite Football.
The clubs that are certified are the 32 elite soccer clubs within the Unicoach network as well as the clubs from Ettan Fotboll that have registered an interest. The model was developed by Swedish Elite Football together with the clubs themselves with the aim of making Swedish football more internationally impactful in the long term. The most important thing is not to appoint the best academy, but rather that each academy should get a measure of its own activity and a reference point for what the club should try to improve for the coming seasons.
A total of ten different business areas are examined in the certification. Compared to the previous year, this year there are 16 SEF clubs that receive a higher number of points and some that receive more stars. For example, Hammarby goes from four to five stars, while Mjällby AIF goes from three to four stars. Just like in 2022, there is only one club that gets a maximum of seven stars – Malmö FF, but there are many clubs that improve compared to last year.
– It takes an active job throughout the association to achieve a good result in the certification. We follow up on many different parts of the business, and compliance is required in the documentation that the association sends to us. We want the certification to be seen as an opportunity to develop and get better over time. Having said that, I would say that all clubs took a step forward this year, says Thomas Hasselgren.
221023 Brommapojkarna’s Charlie Antonelius celebrates after 2-2 during the final in the P16 Allsvenskan between Brommapojkarna and Halmstad on October 23, 2022 in Stockholm. Photo: Michael Campanella / BILDBYRÅN / COP 313 / MC0025
Swedish Elite Football’s academy investment is made possible by elite football’s main partner Unibet.
– The certification is an important tool to further raise the level of Swedish elite football and make Swedish football even more impactful internationally. We are proud to be a piece of the puzzle in the development and earmark around SEK 18 million annually to make the clubs’ work with talent development even more professional, says Anders Falk, Sweden manager at Unibet.
The certifiers assess the clubs in depth and from a broad perspective. The purpose of the certification of the clubs is still to ensure the quality of the clubs’ work with player training, to identify the clubs’ own development areas and to highlight the importance of leadership training. An important sub-area is the players’ step from the academy to the club’s men’s team. A certification visit is carried out every two years over two days out in the clubs, where the certifier gets an answer to whether the club’s documentation of the activities actually corresponds to reality. In addition, a digital certification meeting is held after the season each year.
The maximum level of the certification is 10,000 points.
230425 Malmö FF’s Mahamé Siby celebrates with his teammates after he scored 1-0 during the soccer match in U21 Södra between Malmö FF and Landskrona on April 25, 2023 in Malmö. Photo: Ludvig Thunman / BILDBYRÅN / code LT / LT0524
Results of Swedish Elite Soccer’s certification in 2023:
ClubPointsStarsMalmö FF9 0707AIK8 6186IF Brommapojkarna7 6765IFK Göteborg7 4995IFK Norrköping7 2665Hammarby7 1445Kalmar FF6 8794Helsingsborgs IF6 8764BK Häcken6 5534Mjällby AIF6 2164Djurgårdens IF6 1804Halmstads BK 6 1714IK Sirius6 0784GIF Sundsvall6 0614Degerfors IF5 3953IF Elfsborg5 3073Landskrona BoIS5 3023Östers IF5 2913Skövde AIK4 9512Västerås SK4 8212Örebro SK4 7662IFK Värnamo4 5682Trelleborgs FF4 4672IFK Stocksund4 1 862Varbergs BoIS4 1752IK Brage4 0992Norrby IF3 6421AFC Eskilstuna3 5821GAIS3 5071Hammarby TFF3 2971Usiktens BK3 2891Östersunds FK3 2851Vasalunds IF3 1601Örgryte IS3 1411Falkenbergs FF3 0301Jönköpings Södra IF2 7561Dalkurd FF2 6371Ge fle IF2 6251IF Karlstad Fotboll2 5421IFK Haninge2 5061Åtvidabergs FF2 4870
Facts The certification:
Every year Swedish Elite Soccer (SEF) carries out a certification of the member clubs that are part of Unicoach and their academies. All associations’ youth activities are analyzed and scored with the aim of developing Swedish elite football.
It is SEF’s academy developer Thomas Hasselgren and certifiers Jimmy Högberg, Thomas Westerberg, Hans Lindbom and John Wall who visit the clubs and their youth academy.
The certification is a long-term effort where the elite clubs’ youth activities are evaluated annually. Work on the certification started in 2010, with ideas from the Elite Project, to focus on the club’s activities for players aged 10–19. The overall goal of the project is to create future elite players for Swedish elite clubs. Since 2014, clubs outside SEF have also been offered participation. In 2022, the certification changed to today’s model where an association can receive a maximum of 10,000 points and seven stars.
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