The board of SWE3 has been responsible for the development of the private league ELF, the European League of Football, and in particular the newly founded Nordic Storm team. For this reason, we would like to clarify below.
SWE3 and its board work for and support the Swedish sports movement, in which sport is controlled by democratic forces and sport is practiced in community. This model is valuable and well anchored in the Swedish system. Within SWE3 we work within the framework of our democratic order both nationally and internationally through our respective international associations, WADA and the Olympic organizations.
Private players in sport who do not adhere to these democratically established rules are therefore not organizations with which the board of SWE3 wants to work.
As for Nordic Storm, there is currently no official collaboration with SWE3 or the Danish association DAFF. The team was founded without collaboration with the Swedish or Danish association.
The SWE3 Board of Directors, together with the American Football management team, is fully focused on developing American Football in Sweden and Scandinavia. We do this, among other things, through close cooperation with the respective associations in our neighboring countries.
The Board is aware that players, managers and referees from Sweden choose to play and work in the ELF.
For players who choose to play in private, unsanctioned leagues, the SWE3 Board of Directors would like to inform you of the following:
- Private leagues are not subject to the regulations of the international anti-doping association WADA.
- Private leagues that pay player salaries, such as B. the ELF are counted as professional leagues by the NCAA. If you play in such a league, you will lose your college eligibility and therefore will not have the opportunity to play in college. As for the ELF, SWE3, together with the DAFF, has settled this with the NCAA.
- Insurance that you have taken out through your Swedish player, referee or coach license does not apply to training, games, tryouts or other contexts not sanctioned by SWE3.
Since the ELF is a non-sanctioned league, i.e. a league not sanctioned by national and international sports federations, the SWE3 Board of Directors will consider whether executives who choose to participate in the ELF are at risk , losing their chance to represent Sweden at national team level.
