Elite Football Women

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Elite Football Women
Elitfotboll Dam
AbbreviationEFD
Formation28 October 1978
TypeSports organisation
Headquarters Solna, Stockholm
Region served
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Membership
28 football clubs
Secretary General
Helena Nilsson, interim
President
Anders Billström

Elite Football Women (EFD, Swedish : Elitfotboll Dam), is a Swedish interest organisation that represents the 28 elite football clubs in the top two divisions (OBOS Damallsvenskan and Elitettan) of the Swedish women's football league system. It was founded in Stockholm on 28 October 1978. [1]

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Organization

EFD does not administer the divisions, but instead acts in cooperation with the Swedish Football Association, the member clubs, sponsors and partners. The goal is to develop Swedish women's elite football resultwise, economically, commercially and administratively. [2]

EFD holds all commercial and medial rights for licensing. [3] Since 2015 EFD have arranged recordings and broadcasts of all Damallsvenskan matches, [3] [4] [5] which can be viewed worldwide at Damallsvenskan.tv Archived 2017-03-05 at the Wayback Machine for a fee.

Secretaries-General

YearsPerson
1999–2001 Ann-Louise Ebberstein
2001–2006 Ulf Bergquist
2006–2011 Sara Jöngren
2011–July 2019 Linda Wijkström
July 2019– Tomas Hoszek [6]

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References

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  2. "Om Elitfotboll Dam" (in Swedish). Elitfotboll Dam. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Kommersiella samarbeten – Om EFD" [Commercial cooperation – About EFD]. Elitfotboll Dam (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 14 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
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