It's less than three weeks left to the kick-off for Damallsvenskan's 2006 season. A lot of the clubs take off for a training camp somewhere where they can find grass to play on. The tough pre-season training is now usually finished and it's time to focus on the finer details of the game.

Djurgården/Älvsjö will go to Italy and get to play an interesting match against the Italian number 2, Senini Bardolino from Verona. Hammarby and QBIK will both go to Agia Napa on Cyprus and meet each other in a training match. Umeå  will travel to Antalya in Turkey and play a local team and against Kopparbergs/Göteborg, who also has chosen this destination.

Jitex has already been to camp, in Denmark, and so has Malmö, who first planned to spend time in Germany and play the German top side Hamburg SV. They had to cancel, since the playing conditions in northern Germany this long and cold winter wasn't any better than in Sweden. They finally managed to find playable grass just outside Copenhagen and also have found a substitute for HSV - they will play Scotland's national team in a friendly next week.