Gefle awarded Europa League place for 2010

Gefle have been awarded the extra Europa League spot to compete in the 2010-11 Europa League this summer. The Gavle club had won the fair-play league which has granted them European football later this summer and a good financial bonus as well.

Sweden's Allsvenskan had been drawn out as one of the three countries allowed to enter an extra team into the Europa League as a result of the fair-play coefficient which saw Denmark and Finland awarded extra spots.

Gefle join Kalmar, Elfsborg, and IFK Goteborg in the Europa League in July but they start in the first qualifying round which could see them drawn against the likes of MyPA of Finland who also won the fair play league.