Reinfeldt assistant burdens SvFF’s pressed finances

During Friday, it was time for Football Channel’s Olof Lundh to summer talkand in it information appears about the chairman of the Swedish Football Association, Fredrik Reinfeldt.

Lundh points out, among other things, that Reinfeldt, who collects a full fee as SvFF chairman (114,600 kroner a month) even though he sits on seven other boards, has a limited company that last year had a turnover of nearly kroner nine million. The profit then landed at four and a half million.

His representative Karl-Erik Nilsson halved his SvFF fee when he took a seat on the European football association Uefa’s executive committee.

The association pays half

In Summer in the P1 episode, Lundh also tells us that the association takes half of the costs for Reinfeldt’s personal assistant, who has worked with him for many years. This despite the fact that SvFF already had an employee whose task was to assist the chairman and general secretary. That person is still working but now only helps Andrea Möllerberg and has been given other tasks in addition to that.

Lundh says the following in the summer talk:

“The decision that Reinfeldt could bring in his own assistant was made by the former general secretary Håkan Sjöstrand. This means that the association has taken on an extra cost for Reinfeldt’s sake – something that affects football – in times of austerity packages where the association must save SEK 30 million in 2024 alone”.

– It is clear that it is remarkable that the association is taking on extra costs because the chairman has so many other tasks besides his task of managing the Swedish Football Association, says Lundh in a comment to TV4 Nyheterna.

The response from the association

Reinfeldt himself has not been available for comment on the matter, but SvFF has issued a statement.

“Fredrik Reinfeldt has continued to work with his assistant since he took office as chairman of the Swedish Football Association, to some extent through his company and to some extent as part of his role within SvFF. The person in question also supports others within SvFF with various administrative parts, which is within the framework of the strategy we have to work efficiently and cost-consciously going forward. In addition to this, the person in question is not remunerated but receives a salary,” states the union.

Previously, SvFF has flagged that the savings package of 30 million in 2024 will be followed up by new savings next year.

The mandate expires in 2025

The football channel has on several occasions in the past year described how there is dissatisfaction with Fredrik Reinfeldt among the districts and in the football movement. Recently, Håkan Wifvesson, chairman of SvFF’s election committee, also revealed to Fotbollskanalen that he is already probing the terrain before the next annual meeting. Wifvesson wants an early picture of what the support for Reinfeldt looks like.

– Therefore, I have told the representatives who sit on the election committee that they have until August to listen and map where the clubs and districts stand on this issue. I want as complete a picture as possible, Wifvesson said at the beginning of July.

Reinfeldt’s current mandate expires in connection with the annual meeting next year. So far, he has not wanted to give a direct statement about whether he wants to continue as SvFF chairman after that.