Allsvenskan

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

Allsvenskan

Founded	13 January 1924
Country	Sweden
Confederation	UEFA
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	AIK (6th title) (2018)
Most championships	Malmö FF (23 titles)
Most appearances	Sven Andersson (431)
Top goalscorer	Sven Jonasson (254 goals)
TV partners	TV4 Group
Website	www.allsvenskan.se
2018 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: [²alːˌsvɛnːskan]; 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 the 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. Allsvenskan is ranked highest of the leagues in Scandinavia. The current champions are AIK, who won the title in the 2018 season.

Including the 2016 season, Allsvenskan has been running for an unbroken streak of 91 seasons^[update].

Contents

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  2 Status
  


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  3 Competition format
  
  
  
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    3.1 Changes in competition format
    
  
  
  
  


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  4 Awards
  
  
  
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    4.1 Trophy
    
  
  
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    4.2 Player and manager awards
    
  
  
  
  


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  5 Television
  


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  6 Clubs
  


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  7 Stadiums and locations
  


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  8 Managers
  


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  9 Players
  
  
  
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    9.1 Appearances
    
  
  
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    9.2 Foreign players
    
  
  
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    9.3 Top scorers
    
  
  
  
  


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  10 Previous winners
  


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  11 Performances
  
  
  
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    11.1 Medal table
    
  
  
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    11.2 Honoured clubs
    
  
  
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    11.3 Cities
    
  
  
  
  


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  12 All-time Allsvenskan table
  


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  13 Attendance
  


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  14 Referees
  
  
  
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    14.1 FIFA certified referees
    
  
  
  
  


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  15 Allsvenskan in international competition
  


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  16 See also
  


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  17 Footnotes
  


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  18 References
  


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  19 External links
  

History

Sune Sandbring, Malmö FF in a game with Frank 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.

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.

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 and 1992 when the title was decided through a continuation league called Mästerskapsserien.
Historically, however, there is 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	Teams	Match-weeks	Season Start	Season End	Play-offs
1924–25	1956–57	12	22	Autumn	Spring	—
1957–58			33		Next autumn	—
1959	1972		22	Spring	Autumn	—
1973	1981	14	26			—
1982	1983	12	22			Play-offs with eight teams
1984	1990					Play-offs with four teams
1991	1992	10	18		Summer	League with six teams
1993	2007	14	26		Autumn	—
2008	Present	16	30			—

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 the later infamous nazi leader Hermann Göring during the time he lived in Sweden (soon after World War One).^[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] Beginning in 2018, Allsvenskan matches are broadcast in the UK on Eleven Sports Network until 2021.^[5] In October 2018, ESPN picked up the rights to broadcast one Allsvenskan match per week in the United States.^[6] Allsvenskan matches also broadcast in several countries; such as : DAZN in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, Sport Klub in Balkan countries^[7], Nova sports in Cyprus and Greece, and TV2 in Norway^[8].

Clubs

AFC Eskilstuna

AIK
Djurgården
Hammarby

IF Elfsborg

BK Häcken

IFK Göteborg

IK Sirius

Malmö FF

Helsingborg

Falkenberg

Kalmar FF

IFK Norrköping

Östersunds FK

Örebro SK

GIF Sundsvall

Locations of the 2019 Allsvenskan teams

A total of 64 clubs have played in Allsvenskan from its inception in 1924 up to and including the 2017 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 89 seasons played out of 93 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 42nd season in 2018.

The following 16 clubs are competing in Allsvenskan during the 2019 season:

Club	Position in 2018	First season	Seasons	First season of current spell	Titles	Last title
AIK	1st	1924–25	91	2006	6	2018
BK Häcken	5th	1983	19	2009	0	N/A
Djurgårdens IF	7th	1927–28	64	2001	7	2005
GIF Sundsvall	8th	1965	19	2015	0	N/A
Falkenbergs FF	2nd in Superettan	2014	4	2019	0	N/A
Hammarby IF	4th	1924–25	51	2015	1	2001
Helsingborgs IF	1st in Superettan	1924–25	67	2019	7	2011
IF Brommapojkarna	14th	2007	6	2018	0	N/A
IF Elfsborg	12th	1926–27	76	1997	6	2012
IFK Göteborg	11th	1924–25	87	1977	13	2007
IFK Norrköping	2nd	1924–25	79	2011	13	2015
IK Sirius	13th	1969	6	2017	0	N/A
Kalmar FF	10th	1949–50	32	2004	1	2008
Malmö FF	3rd	1931–32	84	2001	23	2017
Örebro SK	9th	1946–47	51	2014	0	N/A
Östersunds FK	6th	2016	4	2016	0	N/A

Stadiums and locations

Main article: List of Allsvenskan stadiums

Friends Arena in Solna.

Tele2 Arena in Stockholm.

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	Falcon Alkoholfri Arena	5,500
GIF Sundsvall	Sundsvall	Norrporten Arena	7,700
Hammarby IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	33,000
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	Östgötaporten	15,734
IK Sirius	Uppsala	Studenternas IP	6,300
Kalmar FF	Kalmar	Guldfågeln Arena	12,182
Malmö FF	Malmö	Stadion	22,500
Örebro SK	Örebro	Behrn Arena	12,645
Östersunds FK	Östersund	Jämtkraft Arena	9,500

Managers

Rikard Norling, manager of AIK.

The current managers in Allsvenskan are:

	Name	Club	Appointed
	Hans Eklund	Falkenbergs FF	26 November 2014
	Rikard Norling	AIK	13 May 2016
	Jens Gustafsson	IFK Norrköping	1 June 2016
	Joel Cedergren	GIF Sundsvall	17 September 2016
	Per-Ola Ljung	Helsingborgs IF	27 November 2016
	Axel Kjäll	Örebro SK	28 August 2017
	Poya Asbaghi	IFK Göteborg	21 November 2017
	Jimmy Thelin	IF Elfsborg	6 December 2017
	Andreas Alm	BK Häcken	8 December 2017
	Stefan Billborn	Hammarby IF	10 January 2018
	Uwe Rösler	Malmö FF	12 June 2018
	Ian Burchnall	Östersunds FK	20 June 2018
	Roberth Björknesjö	IF Brommapojkarna	10 September 2018
	Kim Bergstrand Thomas Lagerlöf	Djurgårdens IF	16 November 2018
		Kalmar FF
		IK Sirius

Players

See also: List of Allsvenskan 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

See also: List of foreign Allsvenskan players

Until 1974, foreign players were banned from playing in Allsvenskan, however not on all levels of football in Sweden.^[9] In the first season of allowance, on 13 April 1974, English Ronald Powell in Brynäs IF became the first foreign player in Allsvenskan^[9] 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^[10]

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
	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 1971 Malmö FF (9) Åtvidabergs FF

Season Winner Runner-up 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 2016 Malmö FF (22) AIK 2017 Malmö FF (23) AIK 2018 AIK (6) IFK Norrköping

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.^[11]

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 2018 season.^[11][12][13]

Rank	Club	Gold	Big Silver	Small Silver	Bronze	Points
1	Malmö FF	23	14	10	8	185
2	IFK Göteborg	13	13	16	10	146
3	IFK Norrköping	13	10	5	7	112
4	AIK	6	14	12	8	104
5	Helsingborgs IF	7	7	9	10	84
6	IF Elfsborg	6	6	6	8	68
7	Djurgårdens IF	7	3	10	3	67
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
	Hammarby IF	1	2	2	3	18
14	Åtvidabergs FF	2	2	-	1	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
	Sandvikens IF	-	-	1	3	5
20	BK Häcken	-	1	-	1	4
21	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.^[a] 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 2018 season

Club	Swedish championship titles	Allsvenskan titles	Stars	Introduced
Malmö FF	20	23		2006
IFK Göteborg	18	13		2006
IFK Norrköping	13	13		2006
AIK	12	6		2000
Örgryte IS	12	2		2006
Djurgårdens IF	11	7		2006

Cities

Stockholm

Kalmar

Borås

Gothenburg

Helsingborg

Malmö

Halmstad

Norrköping

Åtvidaberg

Växjö

Locations of the cities that have won the league

Town or city	League wins	Clubs
Malmö	23	Malmö FF (23)
Gothenburg	19	IFK Göteborg (13), GAIS (4) Örgryte IS (2)
Norrköping	14	IFK Norrköping (13), IK Sleipner (1)
Stockholm	14	Djurgårdens IF (7), AIK (6), 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 2018 season.^[15]

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 1768 points short of Malmö FF.

Pos Team Seas Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Malmö FF 83 2009 1002 506 501 3612 2370 +1242 3512 2 IFK Göteborg 86 2061 980 490 591 3815 2751 +1064 3430 3 AIK 90 2157 929 570 658 3591 2888 +703 3357 4 IFK Norrköping 78 1867 816 460 591 3297 2667 +630 2908 5 IF Elfsborg 75 1816 738 446 632 3046 2787 +259 2660 6 Helsingborgs IF 66 1593 709 342 542 2971 2468 +503 2469 7 Djurgårdens IF 63 1553 635 384 534 2463 2188 +275 2289 8 Örgryte IS 56 1306 487 321 498 2153 2048 +105 1782 9 Halmstads BK 54 1349 466 349 534 1888 2067 −179 1747 10 GAIS 54 1253 464 294 495 1969 2029 −60 1686 11 Örebro SK 50 1248 444 325 479 1715 1855 −140 1657 12 Hammarby IF 50 1232 424 293 515 1796 2007 −211 1562[b] 13 Östers IF 33 794 295 231 268 1166 1014 +152 1116 14 Kalmar FF 31 818 298 212 308 1045 1120 −75 1106 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 BK Häcken 18 504 178 132 194 747 731 +16 666 18 Åtvidabergs FF 20 512 177 118 217 713 766 −53 649 19 Sandvikens IF 21 471 165 81 225 775 948 −173 576 20 Trelleborgs FF 18 476 134 121 221 552 766 −214 523 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 16 434 116 119 199 488 710 −222 467 24 GIF Sundsvall 18 468 108 137 223 522 785 −263 461 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 Jönköpings Södra IF 12 280 81 71 128 392 568 −176 314 28 Västra Frölunda IF 10 240 64 65 111 266 395 −129 257 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 IF Brommapojkarna 6 176 38 38 100 159 324 −165 152 33 IFK Sundsvall 5 130 36 37 57 161 236 −75 145 34 Östersunds FK 3 90 40 21 29 143 117 +26 141 35 IK Sirius 5 134 34 32 68 147 246 −99 134 36 Västerås SK 4 96 23 17 56 101 217 −116 86 37 Syrianska FC 3 90 20 16 54 88 153 −65 76 38 Falkenbergs FF 3 90 18 14 58 100 189 −89 68 39 Råå IF 2 44 16 8 20 66 85 −19 56 40 Ljungskile SK[c] 2 56 11 11 34 54 109 −55 44 41 Westermalms IF 2 44 10 7 27 69 120 −51 37 42 Umeå FC 1 26 8 6 12 35 45 −10 30 43 IFK Uddevalla 2 44 6 12 26 58 114 −56 30 44 Hallstahammars SK 2 44 6 12 26 56 114 −58 30 45 Stattena IF 2 44 8 4 32 58 155 −97 28 46 Motala AIF 1 33 6 7 20 35 68 −33 25 47 Dalkurd FF 1 30 6 6 18 30 57 −27 24 48 Redbergslids IK 1 22 5 5 12 35 60 −25 20 49 Ludvika FfI 1 22 6 2 14 30 56 −26 20 50 AFC Eskilstuna 1 30 4 8 18 28 55 −27 20 51 IK Oddevold 1 26 5 4 17 20 43 −23 19 52 IFK Luleå 1 22 4 6 12 20 44 −24 18 53 IF Saab 1 26 4 6 16 26 53 −27 18 54 Reymersholms IK 1 22 4 4 14 27 57 −30 16 55 Norrby IF 1 22 3 6 13 30 52 −22 15 56 BK Derby 1 26 3 6 17 18 53 −35 15 57 Assyriska FF 1 26 4 2 20 17 52 −35 14 58 Brynäs IF 1 26 2 8 16 27 63 −36 14 59 Enköpings SK 1 26 3 5 18 22 59 −37 14 60 Högadals IS 1 22 3 3 16 24 56 −32 12 61 Västerås IK 1 22 2 5 15 21 66 −45 11 62 IFK Holmsund 1 22 3 1 18 24 79 −55 10 63 Sandvikens AIK 1 22 2 1 19 24 72 −48 7 64 IK City 1 22 1 4 17 32 83 −51 7 65 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 6 26 2019 Allsvenskan 2019 Superettan Lower divisions Defunct or merged into other club

Attendance

Last five seasons average attendance

Year	Spectators per match
2013	7,627
2014	7,132
2015	9,967
2016	9,127
2017	9,215

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, coinciding with 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

Mohammed Al-Hakim

Allsvenskan has 24 active referees that are available for matches as of the 2018 season. Currently there are six fully certified international FIFA referees in Allsvenskan. There are also a further eleven referees who are certified by the Swedish Football Association who have refereed matches in Allsvenskan. Markus Strömbergsson and Stefan Johannesson are still active referees who previously have been certified by FIFA. A further seven referees certified by the Swedish Football Association are available to referee Allsvenskan matches but have not done so as of 2018.^[16]

FIFA certified referees

• Mohammed Al-Hakim


• Andreas Ekberg


• Kristoffer Karlsson


• Glenn Nyberg


• Bojan Pandžić


• Martin Strömbergsson

Allsvenskan in international competition

Malmö FF were runners up in the 1978–79 European Cup, after a 1–0 defeat against Nottingham Forest.^[17]IFK Göteborg won the UEFA Cup twice, in 1981–82 (defeating Hamburger SV in the finals)^[18] and 1986–87 (defeating Dundee United in the finals).^[19] 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.^[20]

The following teams have participated in the UEFA Champions League or UEFA-Cup/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 2018–19
Helsingborgs IF	2000–01	2007-08 2012–13
AIK	1999–2000	2012–13
IF Elfsborg	N/A	2007-08 2013–14
Halmstads BK	N/A	2005–06
Östersunds FK	N/A	2017–18

See also

• Damallsvenskan


• List of Allsvenskan top scorers


• List of foreign Allsvenskan players


• Seasons in Swedish football


• Sports attendances

Footnotes

1. 
   ^ 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.^[14]
   


2. 
   ^ Hammarby IF were deducted three points in 2006.
   


3. 
   ^ Ljungskile SK were known as Panos Ljungskile SK during the season of 1997.
   

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