The Swedish Sports Confederation (Swedish: Riksidrottsförbundet, RF) is the umbrella organisation of the Swedish sports movement. Through its member organisations, it has three million members in 22,000 clubs.[1] The Confederation was formed on 31 May 1903. Its present chairman, since 2015, is Björn Eriksson.
According to the website, their tasks are to:[2]
Specialised sports federations affiliated to the Swedish Sports Confederation:[3]
* Also member of the Swedish Olympic Committee
The Confederation has had the following presidents:[4]
In 2018, the Swedish Sports Confederation reported the Russian-linked group Fancy Bear was responsible for an attack on its computers, targeting records of athletes' doping tests.[5]
The Swedish Sports Confederation held a vote on admitting esports into the federation with a negative result.[6] This had an adverse effect on the Dota 2 esports event The International 2020, which was originally planned to be hosted at the Avicii ArenainStockholm before being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Because the event could not be covered by the exemptions from pandemic restrictions in the country that other sporting events had, it was moved to Romania in 2021.[7]
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