Allsvenskan

This article is about the Swedish football league. For other uses, see Allsvenskan (disambiguation).

Allsvenskan

Country	Sweden
Confederation	UEFA
Founded	13 January 1924
Number of teams	16
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Superettan
Domestic cup(s)	Svenska Cupen
International cup(s)	UEFA Champions League UEFA Europa League
Current champions	IFK Norrköping (2015)
Most championships	Malmö FF (21 titles)
TV partners	TV4 Group
Website	Allsvenskan
2016 Allsvenskan

Swedish Football League Structure
Allsvenskan (Tier 1)
Superettan (Tier 2)
Division 1 (Tier 3)
Division 2 (Tier 4)
Division 3 (Tier 5)
Division 4 (Tier 6)
Division 5 (Tier 7)
Division 6 (Tier 8)
Division 7 (Tier 9)
Division 8 (Tier 10)

Allsvenskan (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈalːˈsvɛnskan]; English: The All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, English: The Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924, and is the top flight of the Swedish football league system, operating on a system of promotion and relegation with Superettan. Seasons run from late March or early April to beginning of November, with the 16 clubs all meeting each other twice, resulting in a 30-match season, for a total of 240 matches league-wide.

Allsvenskan is ranked 20th in the UEFA coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the last five years. As it stands now, Allsvenskan is ranked highest of the leagues in Scandinavia. The current champions are IFK Norrköping, who won the title in the 2015 season.

Including the 2014 season, Allsvenskan has been running for an unbroken streak of 89 seasons, which amongst national-level football leagues is one of the longest such streaks in Europe as well as in the world.

History

Sune Sandbring, Malmö FF in a game with Sanny Jacobsson, GAIS in 1953.

Allsvenskan started in the 1924–25 Allsvenskan season and the first winner was GAIS. The one-league twelve team Allsvenskan replaced the Svenska Serien, consisting of a southern and northern group that was held before. In 1931, the league started to decide the Swedish football champions.

In the early years, Norrland and Gotland teams were not allowed to play on higher levels in the league system, which was gradually changed to include the Norrland and Gotland teams on higher levels. In the 1955–56 season, Lycksele IF became the first Norrland team to play in an Allsvenskan promotion play-off, however they lost to GAIS.

For the 1959 Allsvenskan, the season start was changed from autumn to spring to be played in one calendar year. In 1973, it was expanded to contain 14 teams. In the 1970s, Malmö FF, under the lead of Spanish Antonio Durán and later English Bob Houghton, won five Allsvenskan and managed to proceed to the 1979 European Cup Final, which they lost to Nottingham Forest F.C..

From the 1982 season, the league introduced a play-off to determine the Swedish football champions. In the late 1980s, Malmö FF were dominant, winning the league five times in a row, but only two Swedish championships. The 1990 season saw the introduction of three points per win. The play-off season years were followed by two years of continuation league, named Mästerskapsserien.

The 1993 season saw a return to the classical format, again with 14 teams. IFK Göteborg won five Allsvenskan league titles in the 1990s.

In the early 2000s, Djurgårdens IF won three titles (2002, 2003 and 2005). In 2004, Örebro SK lost its place in the league due to financial problems, and Assyriska FF got their place. Since 2008, the league consists of 16 teams.

Status

The champions of the Allsvenskan are considered Swedish champions and gold medal winners. The runners-up are awarded the Large Silver medal, the third positioned team are awarded the Small Silver medal and the team positioned in fourth place are awarded the Bronze medal.

There have been seasons with exceptions when the winners of Allsvenskan wasn't considered Swedish champions as well. Allsvenskan winners between 1924 and 1930 were crowned league champions and awarded gold medals, the title of Swedish champions was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet up until 1925 and then not at all until 1930. The years 1982 through 1990 are also exceptions, the title was instead decided through play-offs during these years. The same was true for the years 1991 through 1992 when the title was decided through a continuation league called Mästerskapsserien. Historically, there is though a big difference between the Allsvenskan winners before 1931 compared to the period between 1982 and 1992. As winning Allsvenskan in its earlier seasons was the optimal aim for the clubs, while as during the era of play-offs and Mästerskapsserien, the optimal goal wasn't to win Allsvenskan, but the play-offs or Mästerskapsserien.

Competition format

Since 2008 there are 16 clubs in Allsvenskan. During the course of a season (starting in late March and ending in early November) each club plays the others twice (home and away) for a total of 30 games. The two lowest placed teams at the end of the season are relegated to Superettan and the top two teams from Superettan are promoted in their place. The third lowest team in Allsvenskan plays a relegation/promotion play-off against the third placed team in Superettan.

The winners of Allsvenskan qualify for the UEFA Champions League, the runner-up together with the third placed team in the table qualify for the UEFA Europa League as well as the team who wins the Svenska Cupen. In case the winner of the Cup has already qualified to Champions League or Europa League, the third Europa League spot is given to the team that finishes fourth in Allsvenskan.

Changes in competition format

Lennart Johanssons Pokal

From	To	Number of teams	Number of match-weeks	Season Start	Season End	Play-offs
1924–25	1956–57	12	22	Autumn	Spring	—
1957–58			33	Autumn	Next autumn	—
1959	1972		22	Spring	Autumn	—
1973	1981	14	26			—
1982	1983	12	22			Play-offs with eight teams
1984	1990	12	22			Play-offs with four teams
1991	1992	10	18		Summer	League with six teams
1993	2007	14	26		Autumn	—
2008	Present	16	30		Autumn	—

The decider at equal amount of points was goal ratio until the 1940–41 season, thereafter goal difference.

Awards

Trophy

The current trophy awarded to the Swedish champions is the Lennart Johanssons Pokal. Created in 2001, the trophy is named after former UEFA chairman, Lennart Johansson. A different trophy that was named after Clarence von Rosen, the first chairman of the Swedish Football Association, had previously been used between 1903 and 2000, but was replaced after journalists reported that von Rosen had personal connections to infamous nazi leader Hermann Göring.^[1] The former President of the Swedish Football Association, Lars-Åke Lagrell stated that the reason for the change of trophy wasn't a personal attack against Von Rosen but rather that the Football Association didn't want to be linked to nazism and constantly engage in discussions regarding this every time the trophy was awarded.^[1]

Player and manager awards

In addition to the winner's trophy and the individual winner's medals awarded to players, Allsvenskan also awards the most valuable player, goalkeeper of the year, defender of the year, midfielder of the year, forward of the year, newcomer of the year and manager of year at Allsvenskans stora pris together with C More and Magasinet Offside.^[2] Also, the Allsvenskan top scorer has is awarded.

Television

The Swiss corporation Kentaro has owned the TV rights for Allsvenskan since 2006.^[3] Through licence agreements with the media company TV4 Group matches are aired through C More Entertainment who broadcasts them on their C More Sport and C More Live channels. Matches can also be bought through the online pay-per-view service C SPORTS. The current license agreement is valid to 2019.^[4]

Clubs

Locations of the 2015 Allsvenskan teams

A total of 62 clubs have played in Allsvenskan from its inception in 1924 up to and including the 2014 season. No club have been a member of the league for every season since its inception, AIK are the club to have participated in most seasons with a record of 86 seasons played out of 90 seasons in total. Malmö FF have the record of most consecutive seasons, 63 consecutive seasons between 1936–37 and 1999. IFK Göteborg are currently the club with the longest running streak, starting their 39th season in 2015.

The following 16 clubs are competing in Allsvenskan during the 2015 season:

Club	Position in 2014	First season	Number of seasons	First season of current spell	Titles	Last title
AIK	3rd	1924–25	86	2006	5	2009
BK Häcken	5th	1983	14	2009	0	N/A
Djurgårdens IF	7th	1927–28	59	2001	7	2005
Falkenbergs FF	13th	2014	1	2014	0	N/A
GIF Sundsvall	2nd in Superettan	1965	14	2015	0	N/A
Gefle IF	14th	1933–34	14	2005	0	N/A
Halmstads BK	10th	1933–34	52	2013	4	2000
Hammarby IF	1st in Superettan	1924–25	46	2015	1	2001
Helsingborgs IF	9th	1924–25	64	1993	7	2011
IF Elfsborg	4th	1926–27	71	1997	6	2012
IFK Göteborg	2nd	1924–25	82	1977	13	2007
IFK Norrköping	12th	1924–25	74	2011	13	2015
Kalmar FF	11th	1949–50	27	2004	1	2008
Malmö FF	1st	1931–32	79	2001	21	2014
Åtvidabergs FF	8th	1968	19	2012	2	1973
Örebro SK	6th	1946–47	46	2014	0	N/A

Stadiums and locations

Main article: List of Allsvenskan stadiums

Friends Arena in Solna.

Tele2 Arena in Stockholm.

Swedbank Stadion in Malmö.

Current team and stadiums:

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AIK	Solna	Friends Arena	54,000
BK Häcken	Gothenburg	Bravida Arena	6,500
Djurgårdens IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	33,000
Falkenbergs FF	Falkenberg	Falkenbergs IP	5,000
Gefle IF	Gävle	Gavlevallen	6,500
GIF Sundsvall	Sundsvall	Norrporten Arena	7,700
Halmstads BK	Halmstad	Örjans Vall	15,500
Hammarby IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	33,000
Helsingborgs IF	Helsingborg	Olympia	16,500
IF Elfsborg	Borås	Borås Arena	16,899
IFK Göteborg	Gothenburg	Gamla Ullevi	18,900
IFK Norrköping	Norrköping	Östgötaporten	15,734
Kalmar FF	Kalmar	Guldfågeln Arena	12,182
Malmö FF	Malmö	Swedbank Stadion	24,000
Åtvidabergs FF	Åtvidaberg	Kopparvallen	8,000
Örebro SK	Örebro	Behrn Arena	13,129

Managers

Åge Hareide, manager of the reigning champions Malmö FF is the only foreign manager in the league.

The current managers in Allsvenskan are:

	Name	Club	Appointed
SWE !	Gerhardsson, PeterPeter Gerhardsson	BK Häcken	000000002008-11-20-000020 November 2008
SWE !	Andersson, JanneJanne Andersson	IFK Norrköping	000000002010-12-01-00001 December 2010
SWE !	Alm, AndreasAndreas Alm	AIK	000000002010-12-16-000016 December 2010
SWE ! SWE !	Cedergren, JoelJoel Cedergren Franzén, RogerRoger Franzén	GIF Sundsvall	000000002012-12-14-000014 December 2012
SWE !	Bergstrand, NanneNanne Bergstrand	Hammarby IF	000000002013-11-06-00006 November 2013
SWE !	Olsson, PerPer Olsson	Djurgårdens IF	000000002013-11-20-000020 November 2013
SWE !	Sandberg, RogerRoger Sandberg	Gefle IF	000000002013-12-10-000010 December 2013
NOR !	Hareide, ÅgeÅge Hareide	Malmö FF	000000002014-01-09-00009 January 2014
SWE !	Axén, AlexanderAlexander Axén	Örebro SK	000000002014-06-13-000013 June 2014
SWE !	Larsson, HenrikHenrik Larsson	Helsingborgs IF	000000002014-11-10-000010 November 2014
SWE !	Haglund, MagnusMagnus Haglund	IF Elfsborg	000000002014-11-12-000012 November 2014
SWE !	Jönsson, JanJan Jönsson	Halmstads BK	000000002014-11-19-000019 November 2014
SWE !	Swärdh, PeterPeter Swärdh	Kalmar FF	000000002014-11-24-000024 November 2014
SWE !	Lennartsson, JörgenJörgen Lennartsson	IFK Göteborg	000000002014-11-25-000025 November 2014
SWE !	Eklund, HansHans Eklund	Falkenbergs FF	000000002014-11-26-000026 November 2014
SWE !	Hansen, RoarRoar Hansen	Åtvidabergs FF	000000002014-12-12-000012 December 2014

Players

Rank	Player	Apps	Goals
1	Sven Andersson	431	0
2	Thomas Ravelli	416	0
3	Daniel Tjernström	411	24
4	Sven Jonasson	410	254
5	Bengt Andersson	387	3

Appearances

Sven Andersson has the record for most appearances in Allsvenskan with 431 appearances for Örgryte IS and Helsingborgs IF. Sven Jonasson has the record for most matches in a row with 332 matches for IF Elfsborg between 11 September 1927 and 1 November 1942.

Foreign players

Until 1974, foreign players were banned from playing in Allsvenskan, however not on all levels of football in Sweden.^[5] In the first season of allowance, on 13 April 1974, English Ronald Powell in Brynäs IF became the first foreign player in Allsvenskan^[5] In 1977, Tunisian Melke Amri became the first non-European player. In 1978, Icelandic Teitur Þórðarson in Östers IF became the first foreign player to win the Allsvenskan^[6]

Rank	Player	Apps	Goals
1	Sven Jonasson	410	254
2	Carl-Erik Holmberg	260	194
3	Filip Johansson	181	180
4	Harry Lundahl	176	179
5	Harry Bild	288	162
5	Bertil Johansson	267	162

Top scorers

Sven Jonasson has made the most goals in the Allsvenskan history, with 254 goals in 410 appearances. Gunnar Nordahl has become the top scorer most times, with four wins.

Previous winners

Main article: List of Swedish football champions

Key

0000000000	Season when the league didn't decide the Swedish champions
0000000000	Season when Swedish champions wasn't awarded at all

Season	Winner	Runner-up
1924–25	GAIS (1)	IFK Göteborg
1925–26	Örgryte IS (1)	GAIS
1926–27	GAIS (2)	IFK Göteborg
1927–28	Örgryte IS (2)	Helsingborgs IF
1928–29	Helsingborgs IF (1)	Örgryte IS
1929–30	Helsingborgs IF (2)	IFK Göteborg
1930–31	GAIS (3)	AIK
1931–32	AIK (1)	Örgryte IS
1932–33	Helsingborgs IF (3)	GAIS
1933–34	Helsingborgs IF (4)	GAIS
1934–35	IFK Göteborg (1)	AIK
1935–36	IF Elfsborg (1)	AIK
1936–37	AIK (2)	IK Sleipner
1937–38	IK Sleipner (1)	Helsingborgs IF
1938–39	IF Elfsborg (2)	AIK
1939–40	IF Elfsborg (3)	IFK Göteborg
1940–41	Helsingborgs IF (5)	Degerfors IF
1941–42	IFK Göteborg (2)	GAIS
1942–43	IFK Norrköping (1)	IF Elfsborg
1943–44	Malmö FF (1)	IF Elfsborg
1944–45	IFK Norrköping (2)	IF Elfsborg
1945–46	IFK Norrköping (3)	Malmö FF
1946–47	IFK Norrköping (4)	AIK
1947–48	IFK Norrköping (5)	Malmö FF
1948–49	Malmö FF (2)	Helsingborgs IF
1949–50	Malmö FF (3)	Jönköpings Södra IF
1950–51	Malmö FF (4)	Råå IF
1951–52	IFK Norrköping (6)	Malmö FF
1952–53	Malmö FF (5)	IFK Norrköping
1953–54	GAIS (4)	Helsingborgs IF
1954–55	Djurgårdens IF (1)	Halmstads BK
1955–56	IFK Norrköping (7)	Malmö FF
1956–57	IFK Norrköping (8)	Malmö FF
1957–58	IFK Göteborg (3)	IFK Norrköping
1959	Djurgårdens IF (2)	IFK Norrköping
1960	IFK Norrköping (9)	IFK Malmö
1961	IF Elfsborg (4)	IFK Norrköping
1962	IFK Norrköping (10)	Djurgårdens IF
1963	IFK Norrköping (11)	Degerfors IF
1964	Djurgårdens IF (3)	Malmö FF
1965	Malmö FF (6)	IF Elfsborg
1966	Djurgårdens IF (4)	IFK Norrköping
1967	Malmö FF (7)	Djurgårdens IF
1968	Östers IF (1)	Malmö FF
1969	IFK Göteborg (4)	Malmö FF
1970	Malmö FF (8)	Åtvidabergs FF

Season	Winner	Runner-up
1971	Malmö FF (9)	Åtvidabergs FF
1972	Åtvidabergs FF (1)	AIK
1973	Åtvidabergs FF (2)	Östers IF
1974	Malmö FF (10)	AIK
1975	Malmö FF (11)	Östers IF
1976	Halmstads BK (1)	Malmö FF
1977	Malmö FF (12)	IF Elfsborg
1978	Östers IF (2)	Malmö FF
1979	Halmstads BK (2)	IFK Göteborg
1980	Östers IF (3)	Malmö FF
1981	Östers IF (4)	IFK Göteborg
1982	IFK Göteborg (5)	Hammarby IF
1983	AIK (3)	Malmö FF
1984	IFK Göteborg (6)	AIK
1985	Malmö FF (13)	Kalmar FF
1986	Malmö FF (14)	IFK Göteborg
1987	Malmö FF (15)	IFK Norrköping
1988	Malmö FF (16)	IFK Göteborg
1989	Malmö FF (17)	IFK Norrköping
1990	IFK Göteborg (7)	IFK Norrköping
1991	IFK Göteborg (8)	Örebro SK
1992	IFK Norrköping (12)	Östers IF
1993	IFK Göteborg (9)	IFK Norrköping
1994	IFK Göteborg (10)	Örebro SK
1995	IFK Göteborg (11)	Helsingborgs IF
1996	IFK Göteborg (12)	Malmö FF
1997	Halmstads BK (3)	IFK Göteborg
1998	AIK (4)	Helsingborgs IF
1999	Helsingborgs IF (6)	AIK
2000	Halmstads BK (4)	Helsingborgs IF
2001	Hammarby IF (1)	Djurgårdens IF
2002	Djurgårdens IF (5)	Malmö FF
2003	Djurgårdens IF (6)	Hammarby IF
2004	Malmö FF (18)	Halmstads BK
2005	Djurgårdens IF (7)	IFK Göteborg
2006	IF Elfsborg (5)	AIK
2007	IFK Göteborg (13)	Kalmar FF
2008	Kalmar FF (1)	IF Elfsborg
2009	AIK (5)	IFK Göteborg
2010	Malmö FF (19)	Helsingborgs IF
2011	Helsingborgs IF (7)	AIK
2012	IF Elfsborg (6)	BK Häcken
2013	Malmö FF (20)	AIK
2014	Malmö FF (21)	IFK Göteborg
2015	IFK Norrköping (13)	IFK Göteborg

Performances

Medal table

Historically the players and coaching staff from the four best teams in Allsvenskan are awarded medals at the end of each season. The champions are awarded the gold medal while the runners-up receive the "big silver" medal. The third place team gets the "small silver" medal instead of the more commonly used bronze medal which is instead awarded to the fourth-place finisher. This tradition of awarding four medals and not three is thought to have to do with the fact that the losers of the Semi-finals of Svenska Mästerskapet were both given bronze medals since no bronze match was played.^[7]

The overall medal rank is displayed below after points in descending order. 5 points are awarded for a "gold" medal, 3 points for a "big silver" medal, 2 points for a "small silver" medal and 1 point for a bronze medal. The table that follows is accurate as of the end of the 2015 season.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Rank	Club	Gold	Big Silver	Small Silver	Bronze	Points
1	Malmö FF	21	14	9	8	173
2	IFK Göteborg	13	13	16	9	145
3	IFK Norrköping	13	9	4	7	107
4	AIK	5	12	12	8	93
5	Helsingborgs IF	7	7	9	10	84
6	IF Elfsborg	6	6	6	8	68
7	Djurgårdens IF	7	3	9	3	65
8	GAIS	4	4	4	4	44
9	Östers IF	4	3	3	3	38
10	Örgryte IS	2	2	6	6	34
11	Halmstads BK	4	2	2	2	32
12	Kalmar FF	1	2	2	3	18
13	Åtvidabergs FF	2	2	-	1	17
14	Hammarby IF	1	2	2	2	17
15	Örebro SK	-	2	2	4	14
16	Degerfors IF	-	2	2	2	12
17	IK Sleipner	1	1	1	1	11
18	Landskrona BoIS	-	-	1	3	5
19	Sandvikens IF	-	-	1	3	5
20	BK Häcken	-	1	-	-	3
	IFK Malmö	-	1	-	-	3
	Jönköpings Södra IF	-	1	-	-	3
	Råå IF	-	1	-	-	3
24	Trelleborgs FF	-	-	1	1	3
25	IK Brage	-	-	-	3	3

Honoured clubs

Clubs in European football are commonly honoured for winning multiple league titles and a representative golden star is sometimes placed above the club badge to indicate the club having won 10 league titles. In Sweden the star instead symbolizes 10 Swedish championship titles for the majority of the clubs as the league winner has not always been awarded the title of Swedish champions.^{[lower-alpha 1]} Stars for Allsvenskan clubs was not common practise until 2006, although AIK had already introduced a star to their kit in 2000. IFK Göteborg, Malmö FF, IFK Norrköping, Örgryte IS and Djurgårdens IF were the first teams after AIK to introduce their stars. No new club has introduced a star since 2006, the clubs closest to their first are IF Elfsborg with 6 Swedish championship titles and Helsingborgs IF with 7 Allsvenskan titles depending on what the star symbolizes. The following table is ordered after number of stars followed by number of Swedish championship titles and then the number of Allsvenskan titles.

Statistics updated as of the end of the 2015 season

Club	Swedish championship titles	Allsvenskan titles	Introduced
Malmö FF	18	21	2006
IFK Göteborg	18	13	2006
IFK Norrköping	13	13	2006
Örgryte IS	12	2	2006
Djurgårdens IF	11	7	2006
AIK	11	5	2000

Cities

Locations of the cities who have won the league

Town or city	League wins	Clubs
Malmö	21	Malmö FF (21)
Gothenburg	19	IFK Göteborg (13), GAIS (4) Örgryte IS (2)
Norrköping	14	IFK Norrköping (13), IK Sleipner (1)
Stockholm	13	Djurgårdens IF (7), AIK (5), Hammarby IF (1)
Helsingborg	7	Helsingborgs IF (7)
Borås	6	IF Elfsborg (6)
Halmstad	4	Halmstads BK (4)
Växjö	4	Östers IF (4)
Åtvidaberg	2	Åtvidabergs FF (2)
Kalmar	1	Kalmar FF (1)

All-time Allsvenskan table

The all-time Allsvenskan table, "maratontabellen" in Swedish, is a cumulative record of all match results, points, and goals of every team that has played in Allsvenskan since its inception in 1924–25. It uses three points for a win even though this system was not introduced until the 1990 season. The matches played in the championship play-offs between 1982 and 1990 or the matches played in Mästerskapsserien in 1991 and 1992 are not included. The table that follows is accurate as of the end of the 2015 season.^[11]

Malmö FF are the current leaders, having had the lead since the end of the 2012 season when they overtook the lead from IFK Göteborg. IFK Göteborg are the club to have spent most seasons in the top spot with 48 seasons as leaders with a record of the most consecutive seasons as leaders with 35 seasons between 1938 and 1972. Six clubs have been in the lead, the lead having changed among them ten times since 1925. The former leader with the lowest current ranking in the table is GAIS, currently placing 10th and 1584 points short of Malmö FF.

Pos	Team	Seas	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Malmö FF	80	1919	945	489	485	3432	2288	+1144	3324
2	IFK Göteborg	83	1971	948	468	555	3679	2611	+1068	3312
3	AIK	87	2067	877	542	648	3442	2824	+618	3173
4	IFK Norrköping	75	1777	765	440	572	3142	2563	+579	2735
5	IF Elfsborg	72	1726	708	419	599	2906	2649	+257	2543
6	Helsingborgs IF	65	1563	701	337	525	2937	2416	+521	2440
7	Djurgårdens IF	60	1463	593	366	504	2321	2080	+241	2145
8	Örgryte IS	56	1306	487	321	498	2153	2048	+105	1782
9	Halmstads BK	53	1319	461	340	518	1859	2022	−163	1723
10	GAIS	54	1253	464	294	495	1969	2029	−60	1686
11	Örebro SK	47	1158	414	303	441	1595	1710	−115	1545
12	Hammarby IF	47	1142	388	266	488	1652	1880	−228	1427^{[lower-alpha 2]}
13	Östers IF	33	794	295	231	268	1166	1014	+152	1116
14	Kalmar FF	28	728	268	192	268	943	996	−53	996
15	Landskrona BoIS	34	800	261	194	345	1207	1501	−294	977
16	Degerfors IF	29	658	234	156	268	1022	1102	−80	858
17	Åtvidabergs FF	20	512	177	118	217	713	766	−53	649
18	Sandvikens IF	21	471	165	81	225	775	948	−173	576
19	BK Häcken	15	414	137	110	167	589	631	−42	521
20	Trelleborgs FF	17	446	131	115	200	528	702	−174	508
21	IK Brage	18	408	126	109	173	493	655	−162	487
22	IK Sleipner	16	352	137	61	154	702	738	−36	472
23	Gefle IF	15	404	110	110	184	454	654	−200	440
24	GIF Sundsvall	15	378	82	110	186	408	650	−242	356
25	IFK Malmö	13	297	90	63	144	428	619	−191	333
26	IFK Eskilstuna	14	317	86	59	172	560	850	−290	317
27	Västra Frölunda IF	10	240	64	65	111	266	395	−129	257
28	Jönköpings Södra IF	10	220	67	48	105	329	483	−154	249
29	Mjällby AIF	8	220	59	54	107	234	333	−99	231
30	IS Halmia	11	244	61	48	135	351	539	−188	231
31	Gårda BK	8	176	53	52	71	233	324	−91	211
32	IFK Sundsvall	5	130	36	37	57	161	236	−75	145
33	IF Brommapojkarna	5	146	30	36	80	134	260	−126	126
34	Västerås SK	4	96	23	17	56	101	217	−116	86
35	Syrianska FC	3	90	20	16	54	88	153	−65	76
36	IK Sirius	3	74	15	19	40	64	134	−70	64
37	Falkenbergs FF	2	60	16	10	34	75	105	−40	58
38	Råå IF	2	44	16	8	20	66	85	−19	56
39	Ljungskile SK^{[lower-alpha 3]}	2	56	11	11	34	54	109	−55	44
40	Westermalms IF	2	44	10	7	27	69	120	−51	37
41	Umeå FC	1	26	8	6	12	35	45	−10	30
42	IFK Uddevalla	2	44	6	12	26	58	114	−56	30
43	Hallstahammars SK	2	44	6	12	26	56	114	−58	30
44	Stattena IF	2	44	8	4	32	58	155	−97	28
45	Motala AIF	1	33	6	7	20	35	68	−33	25
46	Redbergslids IK	1	22	5	5	12	35	60	−25	20
47	Ludvika FfI	1	22	6	2	14	30	56	−26	20
48	IK Oddevold	1	26	5	4	17	20	43	−23	19
49	IFK Luleå	1	22	4	6	12	20	44	−24	18
50	IF Saab	1	26	4	6	16	26	53	−27	18
51	Reymersholms IK	1	22	4	4	14	27	57	−30	16
52	Norrby IF	1	22	3	6	13	30	52	−22	15
53	BK Derby	1	26	3	6	17	18	53	−35	15
54	Assyriska FF	1	26	4	2	20	17	52	−35	14
55	Brynäs IF	1	26	2	8	16	27	63	−36	14
56	Enköpings SK	1	26	3	5	18	22	59	−37	14
57	Högadals IS	1	22	3	3	16	24	56	−32	12
58	Västerås IK	1	22	2	5	15	21	66	−45	11
59	IFK Holmsund	1	22	3	1	18	24	79	−55	10
60	Sandvikens AIK	1	22	2	1	19	24	72	−48	7
61	IK City	1	22	1	4	17	32	83	−51	7
62	Billingsfors IK	1	22	0	3	19	28	84	−56	3

Leaders	Years	Seasons	Accumulated seasons in lead
GAIS	1925–1928	4	4
Örgryte IS	1929	1	1
Helsingborgs IF	1930	1	1
GAIS	1931–1935	5	9
IFK Göteborg	1936	1	1
GAIS	1937	1	10
IFK Göteborg	1938–1972	35	36
AIK	1973–1979	7	7
Malmö FF	1980–1999	20	20
IFK Göteborg	2000–2011	12	48
Malmö FF	2012–Present	3	23

	2016 Allsvenskan
	2016 Superettan
	Lower divisions
	Defunct or merged into other club

Attendance

Last five seasons average attendance
Year	Spectators per match
2011	7,326
2012	7,210
2013	7,627
2014	7,132
2015	9,967

The record for highest average home attendance for a club was set by Hammarby in 2015 (25,507 over 15 home matches). Most other attendance records for Allsvenskan were set in the 1959 season, coincidentally the first season that the league switched from an autumn–spring format to a spring–autumn format. 1959 saw records for highest attendance at a match (52,194 at an Örgryte win over IFK Göteborg at Ullevi), second highest average home attendance for a club (25,490 for Örgryte's 11 home matches), and the highest ever average attendance for Allsvenskan as a whole (13,369).

AIK has had the league's highest attendance for the season more often than any other club, followed by IFK Göteborg and Örgryte. Other teams that have for at least one season had the best attendance in the league include Helsingborg, Malmö FF, Djurgården, GAIS, Hammarby, Örebro SK, and Öster.

Referees

Jonas Eriksson

Allsvenskan has 22 active referees that are available for matches as of the 2014 season. Currently there are seven fully certified international FIFA referees in Allsvenskan. There are also a further ten referees who are certified by the Swedish Football Association who have refereed matches in Allsvenskan. Martin Hansson and Markus Strömbergsson are now active referees who have been FIFA certified referees but who are now active only as a referees certified by the Swedish Football Association. A further five referees certified by the Swedish Football Association are available to referee Allsvenskan matches but have not done so as of 2014.^[12]

FIFA certified referees

Allsvenskan in international competition

Malmö FF were runners up in the 1978–79 European Cup, after a 1–0 defeat against Nottingham Forest.^[13] IFK Göteborg won the UEFA Cup twice, in 1981–82 (defeating Hamburger SV in the finals)^[14] and 1986–87 (defeating Dundee United in the finals).^[15] IFK Göteborg also reached the semi-finals of the European Cup in 1985–86. They won 3–0 against FC Barcelona, and lost 0–3 at Camp Nou, Barcelona won on penalty shootout.^[16]

The following teams have participated in the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League group stages:

Club	UEFA Champions League	UEFA Europa League
IFK Göteborg	1992–93 1994–95 1996–97 1997–98	N/A
Malmö FF	2014–15 2015–16	2011–12
AIK	1999–2000	2012–13
Helsingborgs IF	2000–01	2012–13
IF Elfsborg	N/A	2013–14

Footnotes

↑ The title of "Swedish Champions" has been awarded to the winner of four different competitions over the years. Between 1896 and 1925 the title was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played. In 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 a play-off in cup format was held at the end of the league season to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the title was decided by the winner of Mästerskapsserien, an additional league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan.^[10]
↑ Hammarby IF were deducted three points in 2006.
↑ Ljungskile SK were known as Panos Ljungskile SK during the season of 1997.

References

1 2 Thorén, Petra. "SM-pokalen ska skrotas". aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2011-01-03.
↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20141006100408/http://www.allsvenskan.se/allsvenskans-stora-pris-2013/. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ "Tar kameran – med våld" (in Swedish). 2008-04-26. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
↑ "Nytt tv-avtal för allsvenskan". svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. 22 March 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
1 2 "Importsvenskan". Aftonbladet.
↑ "Allsvenskan i Fotboll 1978". Fotbollsweden.se. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
1 2 "Guld, stort silver, litet silver och brons?". svenskfotboll.se (The Swedish Football Association). Retrieved 22 September 2011.
↑ "Helsingborgs IF – ALLSVENSKAN 1937/38". hif.se.
↑ "AIK Statistikdatabas (Herrar)". aik.se.
↑ "Svenska mästare 1896–1925, 1931–" [Swedish champions 1896–1925, 1931–]. svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
↑ Lindahl, Jimmy. "Allsvenska maratontabellen 1924/25-2009". Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
↑ "Elitdomare i herrfotboll". svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
↑ "UEFA Champions League 1978/79 - History - All matches – UEFA.com". Uefa.com.
↑ "UEFA Europa League 1981/82 - History - All matches – UEFA.com". Uefa.com.
↑ "UEFA Europa League 1986/87 - History - All matches – UEFA.com". Uefa.com.
↑ "UEFA Champions League 1985/86 - History - All matches – UEFA.com". Uefa.com.

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Allsvenskan

2016 teams	AIK BK Häcken Djurgårdens IF Falkenbergs FF Gefle IF GIF Sundsvall Hammarby IF Helsingborgs IF IF Elfsborg IFK Göteborg IFK Norrköping Jönköpings Södra IF Kalmar FF Malmö FF Örebro SK Östersunds FK

Former teams	Assyriska FF Billingsfors IK BK Derby Brynäs IF Degerfors IF Enköpings SK Eskilstuna City FK GAIS Gårda BK Hallstahammars SK Halmstads BK Högadals IS IF Brommapojkarna IF Saab IFK Eskilstuna IFK Holmsund IFK Luleå IFK Malmö IFK Sundsvall IFK Uddevalla IK Brage IK Oddevold IK Sirius IK Sleipner IS Halmia Landskrona BoIS Ljungskile SK Ludvika FfI Mjällby AIF Motala AIF Norrby IF Redbergslid IK Reymersholms IK Råå IF Sandvikens AIK Sandvikens IF Stattena IF Syrianska FC Trelleborgs FF Umeå FC Västerås IK Västerås SK Västra Frölunda IF Westermalms IF Åtvidabergs FF Örgryte IS Östers IF

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Football in Sweden

Swedish Football Association District Football Associations

National teams	Men's U-21 U-19 U-17 Women's U-19 U-17

League system - Men	Allsvenskan Superettan Division 1 North South Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Division 6 Division 7 Division 8

League system - Women	Damallsvenskan Elitettan Women's Division 1 Women's Division 2 Women's Division 3 Women's Division 4 Women's Division 5 Women's Division 6

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Africa (clubs)

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Central Africa	Championnat National D1 (Gabon) Central African Republic League Elite One (Cameroon) São Tomé and Príncipe Championship

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