More clubs with higher amount of stars. This is a fact when the certification of the elite clubs’ academies for 2023 now is official. All club within the Unicoach project has the chance to receive a maximum of seven stars. Here are the results for the past year.
“The certification places great demands on the clubs. The ambition is for both the certification model and the clubs to develop all the time. The demands increase every year, so in order to improve in terms of points, you as a club need to take steps forward and develop. We are starting to see that the clubs are taking player training more seriously and that it is becoming more of a focus in the clubs’ overall strategies. In the long term, it benefits Swedish football and our competitiveness vis-à-vis each other and internationally”, says Thomas Hasselgren, academy developer at Swedish Professional Football Leagues.
The clubs that are certified are the 32 elite football clubs in Sweden within the Unicoach network as well as some clubs from the third division. The model was developed by Swedish Professional Football Leagues together with the clubs themselves with the aim of making Swedish football more internationally impactful in the long term. The most important thing is not to appoint the best academy, but rather that each academy should get a measure of its own activity and a reference point for what the club should try to improve for the coming seasons.
The maximum points of the certification is 10 000.
Read more about the certification system
The 2023 results:
| Club | Points | Stars |
| Malmö FF | 9 070 | 7 |
| AIK | 8 618 | 6 |
| IF Brommapojkarna | 7 676 | 5 |
| IFK Göteborg | 7 499 | 5 |
| IFK Norrköping | 7 266 | 5 |
| Hammarby | 7 144 | 5 |
| Kalmar FF | 6 879 | 4 |
| Helsingsborgs IF | 6 876 | 4 |
| BK Häcken | 6 553 | 4 |
| Mjällby AIF | 6 216 | 4 |
| Djurgårdens IF | 6 180 | 4 |
| Halmstads BK | 6 171 | 4 |
| IK Sirius | 6 078 | 4 |
| GIF Sundsvall | 6 061 | 4 |
| Degerfors IF | 5 395 | 3 |
| IF Elfsborg | 5 307 | 3 |
| Landskrona BoIS | 5 302 | 3 |
| Östers IF | 5 291 | 3 |
| Skövde AIK | 4 951 | 2 |
| Västerås SK | 4 821 | 2 |
| Örebro SK | 4 766 | 2 |
| IFK Värnamo | 4 568 | 2 |
| Trelleborgs FF | 4 467 | 2 |
| IFK Stocksund | 4 186 | 2 |
| Varbergs BoIS | 4 175 | 2 |
| IK Brage | 4 099 | 2 |
| Norrby IF | 3 642 | 1 |
| AFC Eskilstuna | 3 582 | 1 |
| GAIS | 3 507 | 1 |
| Hammarby TFF | 3 297 | 1 |
| Utsiktens BK | 3 289 | 1 |
| Östersunds FK | 3 285 | 1 |
| Vasalunds IF | 3 160 | 1 |
| Örgryte IS | 3 141 | 1 |
| Falkenbergs FF | 3 030 | 1 |
| Jönköpings Södra IF | 2 756 | 1 |
| Dalkurd FF | 2 637 | 1 |
| Gefle IF | 2 625 | 1 |
| IF Karlstad Fotboll | 2 542 | 1 |
| IFK Haninge | 2 506 | 1 |
| Åtvidabergs FF | 2 487 | 0 |
