The 2000 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the fifth Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season. It was contested over eight rounds (comprising sixteen races) at six different circuits. [1] [2]
Norwegian Tommy Rustad won his first championship for the Crawford Nissan Racing team and became the first non-Swedish driver to win the championship.
| Round | Circuit | Date | Pole Position | Fastest Lap | Winning Driver | Winning Team | Winning Privateer | |
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| 1 | R1 |  Karlskoga-Gelleråsen | 7 May |  Tommy Rustad | Fredrik Ekblom | Fredrik Ekblom | Kristoffersson Motorsport | Magnus Krokström |
| R2 | Tommy Rustad | Carl Rosenblad | Fredrik Ekblom | Kristoffersson Motorsport | Tobias Johansson | |||
| 2 | R3 | Ring Knutstorp | 28 May | Fredrik Ekblom | Fredrik Ekblom | Fredrik Ekblom | Kristoffersson Motorsport | Magnus Krokström |
| R4 | Fredrik Ekblom | Mattias Ekström | Fredrik Ekblom | Kristoffersson Motorsport | Peggen Andersson | |||
| 3 | R5 | Mantorp Park | 18 June | Hubert Bergh | Tommy Rustad | Tommy Rustad | Crawford Nissan Racing | Magnus Krokström |
| R6 | Hubert Bergh | Mattias Ekström | Fredrik Ekblom | Kristoffersson Motorsport | Tobias Johansson | |||
| 4 | R7 | Falkenberg | 9 July | Jan Nilsson | Jan Nilsson | Mattias Ekström | Volvo S40 Racing Team Sweden | Peggen Andersson |
| R8 | Tommy Rustad | Tommy Rustad | Tommy Rustad | Crawford Nissan Racing | Magnus Krokström | |||
| 5 | R9 | Anderstorp | 30 July | Carl Rosenblad | Jens Edman | Jens Edman | Picko Troberg Racing | Peggen Andersson |
| R10 | Carl Rosenblad | Carl Rosenblad | Carl Rosenblad | Crawford Nissan Racing | Magnus Krokström | |||
| 6 | R11 | Arctic Circle Raceway | 13 August | Mattias Ekström | Tommy Rustad | Mattias Ekström | Volvo S40 Racing Team Sweden | Magnus Krokström |
| R12 | Jan Nilsson | Mattias Ekström | Mattias Ekström | Volvo S40 Racing Team Sweden | Frank Valle | |||
| 7 | R13 | Karlskoga-Gelleråsen | 27 August | Fredrik Ekblom | Fredrik Ekblom | Fredrik Ekblom | Kristoffersson Motorsport | Peggen Andersson |
| R14 | Fredrik Ekblom |  Roberto Colciago | Fredrik Ekblom | Kristoffersson Motorsport | Peggen Andersson | |||
| 8 | R15 | Mantorp Park | 10 September | Tommy Rustad | Tommy Rustad | Jens Edman | Picko Troberg Racing | Peggen Andersson |
| R16 | Tommy Rustad | Jens Edman | Jens Edman | Picko Troberg Racing | Jan Lindblom | |||
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| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | PP |
| 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Double points in final race at Mantorp | ||||||||||
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| Pos. | Driver | KAR | KNU | MAN | FAL | AND | ARC | KAR | MAN | Pts | ||||||||
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| 1 | Magnus Krokström | 9 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 10 | Ret | 11 | 12 | 17 | 16 | 196 |
| 2 | Tobias Johansson | 10 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 14 | Ret | 15 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 178 |
| 3 | Peggen Andersson | 11 | DNS | 8 | 3 | 10 | Ret | 4 | Ret | 8 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 176 | ||
| 4 | Anders Svensson | Ret | DNS | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 19 | 12 | 12 | DNS | 14 | DNS | 15 | 122 |
| 5 | Djon Clausen | 14 | 14 | 16 | 11 | Ret | Ret | 15 | 11 | 14 | Ret | 19 | 20 | 58 | ||||
| 6 | Anders Hammer | DNS | DNS | 12 | Ret | Ret | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 41 | ||||||
| 7 | Frank Valle | 15 | Ret | 13 | 10 | Ret | 16 | Ret | 10 | Ret | DNS | 40 | ||||||
| 8 | Lennart Pehrsson | 14 | 14 | 30 | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | Jarle Gåsland | Ret | 11 | 23 | 17 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Jan Lindblom | 12 | 13 | 11 | 10 | Ret | DNS | Ret | 8 | 16 | 14 | Ret | Ret | Ret | DNS | 15 | 11 | 26 |
| 11 | Torbjörn Sällfors | 13 | 16 | 21 | 21 | 21 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Rolf Uhr | 13 | Ret | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Pos. | Driver | KAR | KNU | MAN | FAL | AND | ARC | KAR | MAN | Pts | ||||||||
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