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Eskilstuna Guif barred from top handball league

Key Points
  • Eskilstuna Guif cannot play in the top handball league next season due to excessive debt.
  • The club's gross debt is 4.7 million kronor, with net debt around three million.
  • The club will play in the second-tier Allsvenskan and aims to increase revenue to reduce debt.

Eskilstuna Guif will not play in the men's top handball league next season. The club's debt burden is too large to obtain an elite license, according to club leadership. The club is now fully set on playing in the second-tier Allsvenskan next season.

7 million Swedish kronor, with net debt around three million kronor after assets and receivables. The acting chairman Stephan Eriksson said there are no shortcuts and the club must bring in more money than it spends. The club is second-to-last in the Handbollsligan, and a former chairman has been reported to the police.

The club's debt burden is too large to obtain an elite license

The gross debt is 4.7 million Swedish kronor, with net debt around three million kronor after assets and receivables

there are no shortcuts and the club must bring in more money than it spends

Stephan Eriksson, acting chairman

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