Allsvenskan

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

Allsvenskan

Country	Sweden
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Founded	13 January 1924
Number of teams	16
Levels on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Superettan
Domestic cup(s)	Svenska Cupen
International cup(s)	UEFA Champions League UEFA Europa League
Current champions	IF Elfsborg (2012)
Most championships	Malmö FF (19 titles)
TV partners	TV4 Group
Website	Allsvenskan
2013 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: [ˈalː.ˈsvɛnːskan]; English: The All-Swedish; also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan) is a Swedish professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Swedish football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Superettan. Seasons run from April to November, with teams playing 30 matches each, totalling 240 matches in the season.

The league was created in 1924. Before that, the top league in Sweden was called Svenska Serien. The winner is awarded Lennart Johanssons Pokal. It is ranked 24th in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the last five years, just ahead of the Slovak Super Liga and below the Belarusian Premier League. The current champions are IF Elfsborg, who won the title in the 2012 season.

Status

The champions of the Allsvenskan are considered Swedish Champions. The winners of Allsvenskan between 1924 and 1930 were only considered league winners. The same is true for the years 1982 through 1990 when the champions were decided through play-offs and 1991–1992 when the champions were decided through a continuation league called Mästerskapsserien.

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The competition

There are 16 clubs in Allsvenskan, increased in 2008 from previous years' 14 participants. During the course of a season (starting in March and ending in 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.

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Trophy

Lennart Johanssons Pokal

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 had previously been used between 1903 and 2000, but was replaced after journalists discovered that von Rosen had been a nazi sympathiser.^[1]

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Television

The Swiss corporation Kentaro has owned the TV rights for Allsvenskan since 2006.^[2] 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.^[3]

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Clubs

A total of 61 clubs have played in Allsvenskan from its inception in 1924 up to and including the 2012 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 84 seasons played out of 89 seasons in total.

The following 16 clubs are competing in Allsvenskan during the 2013 season.

Club	Position in 2012	First season	Number of seasons	First season of current spell	Titles	Last title
AIK	4th	1924–25	84	2006	5	2009
BK Häcken	2nd	1983	12	2009	0	N/A
Djurgårdens IF	9th	1927–28	57	2001	7	2005
Gefle IF	11th	1933–34	12	2005	0	N/A
Halmstads BK	3rd in Superettan	1933–34	50	2013	4	2000
Helsingborgs IF	6th	1924–25	62	1993	7	2011
IF Brommapojkarna	2nd in Superettan	2007	3	2013	0	N/A
IF Elfsborg	1st	1926–27	69	1997	6	2012
IFK Göteborg	7th	1924–25	80	1977	13	2007
IFK Norrköping	5th	1924–25	72	2011	12	1992
Kalmar FF	10th	1949–50	25	2004	1	2008
Malmö FF	3rd	1931–32	77	2001	19	2010
Mjällby AIF	12th	1980	6	2010	0	N/A
Syrianska FC	13th	2011	2	2011	0	N/A
Åtvidabergs FF	8th	1968	17	2012	2	1973
Östers IF	1st in Superettan	1968	32	2013	4	1981

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Stadia and locations

Locations of the 2013 Allsvenskan teams

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AIK	Stockholm	Friends Arena	54,000
BK Häcken	Gothenburg	Rambergsvallen	7,000
Djurgårdens IF	Stockholm	Stockholms Stadion and Tele2 Arena	14,417 and 30 000
Gefle IF	Gävle	Strömvallen	7,200
Halmstads BK	Halmstad	Örjans Vall	15,500
Helsingborgs IF	Helsingborg	Olympia	16,500
IF Brommapojkarna	Stockholm	Grimsta IP	8,000
IF Elfsborg	Borås	Borås Arena	16,899
IFK Göteborg	Gothenburg	Gamla Ullevi	18,900
IFK Norrköping	Norrköping	Idrottsparken	17,234
Kalmar FF	Kalmar	Guldfågeln Arena	12,182
Malmö FF	Malmö	Swedbank Stadion	24,000
Mjällby AIF	Mjällby	Strandvallen	7,500
Syrianska FC	Södertälje	Södertälje Fotbollsarena	6,400
Åtvidabergs FF	Åtvidaberg	Kopparvallen	8,000
Östers IF	Växjö	Myresjöhus Arena	12,000

Friends Arena in Stockholm.	Swedbank Stadion in Malmö.
Gamla Ullevi in Göteborg.	Borås Arena in Borås.

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Managers

The current managers in Allsvenskan are:

Former Sweden U21 national team manager Jörgen Lennartsson won the 2012 Allsvenskan in his first year with IF Elfsborg.

	Name	Club	Appointed
SWE !	Bergstrand, NanneNanne Bergstrand	Kalmar FF	02002-10-2929 October 2002
SWE !	Olsson, PerPer Olsson	Gefle IF	02004-12-2828 December 2004
SWE !	Melkemichel, ÖzcanÖzcan Melkemichel	Syrianska FC	02005-05-2929 May 2005
SWE !	Gerhardsson, PeterPeter Gerhardsson	BK Häcken	02008-11-2020 November 2008
SWE !	Björknesjö, RoberthRoberth Björknesjö	IF Brommapojkarna	02010-10-077 October 2010
SWE !	Andersson, JanneJanne Andersson	IFK Norrköping	02010-12-011 December 2010
SWE !	Alm, AndreasAndreas Alm	AIK	02010-12-1616 December 2010
SWE !	Norling, RikardRikard Norling	Malmö FF	02011-06-033 June 2011
SWE !	Gustafsson, JensJens Gustafsson	Halmstads BK	02011-07-055 July 2011
SWE !	Stahre, MikaelMikael Stahre	IFK Göteborg	02011-11-011 November 2011
SWE !	Lennartsson, JörgenJörgen Lennartsson	IF Elfsborg	02011-11-2929 November 2011
SWE !	Swärdh, PeterPeter Swärdh	Åtvidabergs FF	02012-11-055 November 2012
SWE !	Hansen, RoarRoar Hansen	Helsingborgs IF	02012-12-033 December 2012
SWE !	Thomsson, AndreasAndreas Thomsson	Östers IF	02012-12-033 December 2012
SWE !	Torstensson, AndersAnders Torstensson	Mjällby AIF	02012-12-077 December 2012
NOR !	Høgmo, Per-MathiasPer-Mathias Høgmo	Djurgårdens IF	02013-05-1515 May 2013

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Previous winners

0000000000	Season when the league didn't decide the Swedish champions

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.^[4]

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 2012 season.^[4]

Rank	Club	Gold	Big Silver	Small Silver	Bronze	Points
1	Malmö FF	19	14	9	8	163
2	IFK Göteborg	13	11	15	9	137
3	IFK Norrköping	12	9	4	7	102
4	AIK	5	11	10	8	86
5	Helsingborgs IF	7	7	9	10	84
6	IF Elfsborg	6	6	6	6	66
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	Åtvidabergs FF	2	2	0	1	17
13	Kalmar FF	1	2	2	2	17
14	Hammarby IF	1	2	2	2	17
15	Örebro SK	0	2	2	4	14
16	Degerfors IF	0	2	2	2	12
17	IK Sleipner	1	1	1	1	11
18	Landskrona BoIS	0	1	0	3	6
19	Sandvikens IF	0	0	1	3	5
20	BK Häcken	0	1	0	0	3
21	IFK Malmö	0	1	0	0	3
22	Råå IF	0	1	0	0	3
23	Jönköpings Södra IF	0	1	0	0	3
24	Trelleborgs FF	0	0	1	1	3
25	IK Brage	0	0	0	3	3

Honoured clubs

Clubs in European football are especially honoured for winning multiple league titles and a representative golden star is usually placed above the club badge to indicate the club having won 10 league titles. In Sweden the star instead symbolizes 10 Swedish championship titles as the league winner has not always been awarded the title of Swedish champions. The star system was not established for Allsvenskan clubs until 2006, although AIK had already introduced the star to their kit in 2000. IFK Göteborg, Malmö FF, IFK Norrköping, Örgryte IS and Djurgårdens IF were the first teams after AIK to be awarded their stars. No new club has been awarded a star since 2006, the club closest to being awarded their first is IF Elfsborg with 6 titles.

The current (as of the end of the 2011 season) gold star clubs are:

AIK (11 titles, received in 2000).
IFK Göteborg (18 titles, received in 2006).
Malmö FF (16 titles, received in 2006).
IFK Norrköping (12 titles, received in 2006).
Örgryte IS (12 titles, received in 2006).
Djurgårdens IF (11 titles, received in 2006).

Cities

Locations of the cities who have won the league

Town or city	League wins	Clubs
Malmö	19	Malmö FF (19)
Gothenburg	19	IFK Göteborg (13), GAIS (4) Örgryte IS (2)
Norrköping	13	IFK Norrköping (12), 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)

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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 2012 season.^[5]

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 9th and 1459 points short of Malmö FF.

Pos	Team	Seas	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Malmö FF	77	1829	893	466	470	3263	2193	+1070	3145
2	IFK Göteborg	80	1881	899	442	540	3520	2524	+996	3139
3	AIK	84	1977	827	521	629	3275	2716	+559	3002
4	IFK Norrköping	72	1687	725	419	543	2998	2433	+565	2594
5	IF Elfsborg	69	1636	665	395	576	2758	2542	+216	2390
6	Helsingborgs IF	62	1473	666	317	490	2792	2286	+506	2315
7	Djurgårdens IF	57	1373	556	339	478	2184	1966	+218	2007
8	Örgryte IS	56	1306	487	321	498	2153	2048	+105	1782
9	GAIS	54	1253	464	294	495	1969	2029	−60	1686
10	Halmstads BK	50	1229	439	315	475	1762	1882	−120	1632
11	Örebro SK	45	1098	392	286	420	1505	1616	−111	1462
12	Hammarby IF	46	1112	380	257	475	1617	1841	−224	1394^[6]
13	Östers IF	32	764	289	221	254	1139	971	+168	1088
14	Landskrona BoIS	34	800	261	194	345	1207	1501	−294	977
15	Kalmar FF	25	638	236	166	236	841	883	−42	874
16	Degerfors IF	29	658	234	156	268	1022	1102	−80	858
17	Sandvikens IF	21	471	165	81	225	775	948	−173	576
18	Åtvidabergs FF	17	422	152	95	175	612	628	−16	551
19	Trelleborgs FF	17	446	131	115	200	528	702	−174	508
20	IK Brage	18	408	126	109	173	493	655	−162	487
21	IK Sleipner	16	352	137	61	154	702	738	−36	472
22	BK Häcken	12	324	101	90	133	449	506	−57	393
23	Gefle IF	12	314	85	83	146	351	520	−169	338
24	IFK Malmö	13	297	90	63	144	428	619	−191	333
25	GIF Sundsvall	14	348	73	105	170	374	598	−224	324
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	IS Halmia	11	244	61	48	135	351	539	−188	231
30	Gårda BK	8	176	53	52	71	233	324	−91	211
31	Mjällby AIF	6	160	41	43	76	159	239	−80	166
32	IFK Sundsvall	5	130	36	37	57	161	236	−75	145
33	Västerås SK	4	96	23	17	56	101	217	−116	86
34	IF Brommapojkarna	3	86	20	22	44	73	137	−64	82
35	IK Sirius	3	74	15	19	40	64	134	−70	64
36	Syrianska FC	2	60	17	11	32	62	89	−27	62
37	Råå IF	2	44	16	8	20	66	85	−19	56
38	Ljungskile SK^[7]	2	56	11	11	34	54	109	−55	44
39	Westermalms IF	2	44	10	7	27	69	120	−51	37
40	Umeå FC	1	26	8	6	12	35	45	−10	30
41	IFK Uddevalla	2	44	6	12	26	58	114	−56	30
42	Hallstahammars SK	2	44	6	12	26	56	114	−58	30
43	Stattena IF	2	44	8	4	32	58	155	−97	28
44	Motala AIF	1	33	6	7	20	35	68	−33	25
45	Redbergslids IK	1	22	5	5	12	35	60	−25	20
46	Ludvika FfI	1	22	6	2	14	30	56	−26	20
47	IK Oddevold	1	26	5	4	17	20	43	−23	19
48	IFK Luleå	1	22	4	6	12	20	44	−24	18
49	IF Saab	1	26	4	6	16	26	53	−27	18
50	Reymersholms IK	1	22	4	4	14	27	57	−30	16
51	Norrby IF	1	22	3	6	13	30	52	−22	15
52	BK Derby	1	26	3	6	17	18	53	−35	15
53	Assyriska Föreningen	1	26	4	2	20	17	52	−35	14
54	Brynäs IF	1	26	2	8	16	27	63	−36	14
55	Enköpings SK	1	26	3	5	18	22	59	−37	14
56	Högadals IS	1	22	3	3	16	24	56	−32	12
57	Västerås IK	1	22	2	5	15	21	66	−45	11
58	IFK Holmsund^[8]	1	22	3	1	18	24	79	−55	10
59	Sandvikens AIK	1	22	2	1	19	24	72	−48	7
60	IK City	1	22	1	4	17	32	83	−51	7
61	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	1	21

	2013 Allsvenskan
	2013 Superettan
	Lower divisions
	Defunct or merged into other club

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Referees

Martin Hansson

Allsvenskan has 22 active referees that are available for matches as of the 2013 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. Markus Strömbergsson is the only as of now active referee who has been a FIFA certified referee (2006–2012) but who is now active only as a referee 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 2013.^[9]

FIFA certified referees

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Notes

^ Thorén, Petra. "SM-pokalen ska skrotas". aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2011-01-03.
^ "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.
^ ^a ^b "Guld, stort silver, litet silver och brons?". svenskfotboll.se (The Swedish Football Association). Retrieved 22 September 2011.
^ Lindahl, Jimmy. "Allsvenska maratontabellen 1924/25-2009". Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
^ Hammarby IF were deducted three points in 2006.
^ Ljungskile SK were known as Panos Ljungskile SK during the season of 1997.
^ IFK Holmsund played in Allsvenskan in 1967. The team went into bankruptcy in 1990.
^ "Elitdomare i herrfotboll". svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 23 February 2013. .

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Allsvenskan

Status

The competition

Trophy

Television

Clubs

Stadia and locations

Managers

Previous winners

Performances

Medal table

Honoured clubs

Cities

All-time Allsvenskan table

Referees

FIFA certified referees

See also

Notes

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