The heavyweights have created a conflict that was wanted: "A sign to the remainder of Swedish soccer"

Rosengård the champion or the Stockholm derby in all its glory.

BK Häcken and Hammarby are the most important rivals within the Girls’s Allsvenskan when it comes to membership investments – and on Saturday the groups meet within the first conflict of the season at Hisingen in Gothenburg.

– We gained the gold final yr they usually did very properly in Europe (quarter-final within the Champions League), Hammarby captain Alice Carlsson instructed DN already earlier than the season.

– We’re a crew that pulls a big crowd and Häcken is rising there as properly. These are the varieties of matches you need to play.

Nationwide crew defender Häcken Earlier this yr, Anna Sandberg might solely agree.

– It’s good for the league with video games like this, simply because the derby between Linköping and Norrköping is nice. It creates extra of an environment and I feel it is extra enjoyable to look at. It’s a constructive battle.

– It was a aim that separated us final yr. Each level is extraordinarily necessary – and so is each aim.

IFK Norrköping stated It has additionally stepped ahead as a crew participant within the collection. However Hammarby and Häcken are the primary doubles golf equipment within the girls’s league – which, as is the case in Europe, make investments closely in males’s and ladies’s groups.

Final yr, the rivals met each within the cup ultimate and in a heated golden battle on the Tele2 enviornment. In March within the semi-finals of the Swedish Cup – which was determined solely after ten penalty rounds.

– It is fantastic, that is the place we need to get, says coach Hurdle Mak Lind in regards to the battle that has been created.

– And I do not suppose it must be simply Hammarby, we wish to convey extra golf equipment into this, to extend curiosity in girls’s soccer.

Earlier than Saturday’s recreation Hammarby are second and Häcken third, three and 5 factors respectively behind the surprisingly robust Rosengård.

Former Hammarby star Madelen Janogy, who’s now at Fiorentina, stated in reference to the final assembly of the nationwide crew that right now’s rivalry between Hammarby and Häcken has been lacking in Swedish girls’s soccer.

– For my very own half, there aren’t many video games that you just performed when it was just like the one towards Häcken. After which I’ve been taking part in for a few years within the Allsvenskan, stated Janogy.

– It is extremely necessary for the league, and likewise for the gamers.

Photograph: Stefan Jerrevång/TT

Hammarby coach Martin Sjögren, with a background in the true girls’s golf equipment Rosengård and Linköping, noting that you must “beat each crew if you wish to win a collection”. However assembly Häcken continues to be particular.

– There have been conflicts previously, however in all probability not between two golf equipment which might be two golf equipment and make huge bets. It is thrilling, he says.

– I feel that the work finished in these golf equipment is excellent. It reveals that you just make investments equally onerous in women and men. It’s a superb sign to ship out, to the remainder of Swedish soccer but additionally to European soccer – that we’re on board.

Photograph: Henrik Montgomery/TT

Reality.Current conferences

● 31 March 2024semi-final within the Swedish Cup, Kanalplan: Häckenseger by 8–7 after additional time and penalties (0–0 at full time, 1–1 after additional time).
Public: 2 723.

● November 5, 2023damallsvenskan, Tele2 enviornment: Hammarby win by 3–2.
Public: 15 033.

● June 6, 2023ultimate within the Swedish cup, Tele2 enviornment: Hammarby win with 3–0.
Public: 17 623.

● March 8, 2023girls’s league, Bravida discipline: Häckenseger by 1–0.
Public: 2 014.

… and the following assembly:
25 Could 2024, 13.00girls’s league, Bravida discipline: Häcken–Hammarby.
The sport is streamed in Viaplay and TV10.