The International Olympic Committee decided on Wednesday to expand the women's football tournament with four teams and instead remove four teams for the men.
This means that for the first time, there will be more women than men at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in about three years, 50.7 percent compared to 49.3 for the men.
The reason for the change is that women play Olympic football with their A-national teams, while men have U23 teams.
It must be something. If you want to maintain the level of the Olympic Games, that it's something important, then it's clear that you must increase the number of teams, said Peter Gerhardsson in connection with the latest national team gathering.
Somewhere, it's also a matter of fairness. I was involved in the 1996 Olympic Games, and then there were only eight teams for the women. Since then, not much has happened. So this is welcome if you want the women's Olympic football tournament to be a big, important competition.
The proposal to change the number of teams for women and men comes from the International Football Federation (Fifa) and is due to the desire for gender equality. However, the participation limit cannot be increased by adding four teams to the women's tournament and thereby increasing the number of participants in the Olympic Games by approximately 70 people.
Sweden missed the Olympic Games in Paris last summer after taking silver previously in Tokyo 2021.
