2016 Superettan

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Superettan
Season 2016
Champions IK Sirius
Promoted
Relegated
Matches played240
Goals scored618 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer Shkodran Maholli (15 goals)
Biggest home win GAIS 7–0 Ängelholms FF (22 May 2016)
Biggest away winÄngelholms FF 0–4 IFK Värnamo (1 May 2016)
Highest scoring IK Sirius 5–3 Assyriska FF (24 July 2016)
Longest winning run7 matches [1]
IK Sirius
Longest unbeaten run11 matches
AFC United
Longest winless run15 matches
Ängelholms FF
Longest losing run6 matches
Ljungskile SK
Highest attendance11,690
GAIS 0–0 Örgryte IS (30 April 2016)
Lowest attendance181
AFC United 5–0 IFK Värnamo (7 August 2016)
Total attendance414,399
Average attendance1,727
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The 2016 Superettan, part of the 2016 Swedish football season, was the 17th season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football league in its current format. The 2016 fixtures were released in December 2015. The season started in April 2016 and ended in November 2016.

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Teams

A total of 16 teams contested the league. The top two teams qualified directly for promotion to the Allsvenskan, whilst the third had to play a play-off against the fourteenth-placed team in the Allsvenskan to decide who would play in the 2017 Allsvenskan. The bottom two teams were directly relegated to Division 1, whilst the thirteenth and the fourteenth-placed teams had to play-off against the second-placed teams from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who would play in the 2017 Superettan.

2015 champions Jönköpings Södra IF and runners-up Östersunds FK were promoted to the Allsvenskan at the end of the 2015 season. They were replaced by Halmstads BK and Åtvidabergs FF. Utsiktens BK and IF Brommapojkarna were relegated at the end of the 2015 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by Division 1 Norra champions Dalkurd FF and Division 1 Södra champions Trelleborgs FF. Mjällby AIF was also relegated after losing the relegation play-offs to Division 1 Södra runner-up Örgryte IS.

Stadia and locations

TeamLocationStadiumTurf1Stadium capacity12015 season
AFC United Stockholm Skytteholms IP Natural 2,000 8th in Superettan
Assyriska FF Södertälje Södertälje Fotbollsarena Artificial 6,400 4th in Superettan
Dalkurd FF Borlänge Domnarvsvallen Artificial6,500 1st in Division 1 Norra
Degerfors IF Degerfors Stora Valla Natural12,500 9th in Superettan
GAIS Gothenburg Gamla Ullevi Natural18,416 11th in Superettan
Halmstads BK Halmstad Örjans Vall Natural15,500 15th in Allsvenskan
IFK Värnamo Värnamo Finnvedsvallen Natural5,000 10th in Superettan
IK Frej Täby Vikingavallen Artificial2,750 14th in Superettan
IK Sirius Uppsala Studenternas IP Natural6,300 3rd in Superettan
Ljungskile SK Ljungskile Uddevalla Arena Natural8,000 6th in Superettan
Syrianska FC SödertäljeSödertälje FotbollsarenaArtificial6,400 7th in Superettan
Trelleborgs FF Trelleborg Vångavallen Natural10,000 1st in Division 1 Södra
Varbergs BoIS Varberg Påskbergsvallen Natural4,500 5th in Superettan
Åtvidabergs FF Åtvidaberg Kopparvallen Artificial8,000 16th in Allsvenskan
Ängelholms FF Ängelholm Ängelholms IP Natural5,000 12th in Superettan
Örgryte IS GothenburgGamla UlleviNatural18,416 2nd in Division 1 Södra

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion, qualification or relegation
1 IK Sirius (C, P)3018755423+3161Promotion to Allsvenskan
2 AFC United (P)3018755020+3061
3 Halmstads BK (O, P)3016684328+1554Qualification to Promotion playoffs
4 Dalkurd FF 30141154124+1753
5 Varbergs BoIS 30146103337−448
6 Åtvidabergs FF 30135125353044
7 Trelleborgs FF 301010103935+440
8 GAIS 3091294536+939
9 Örgryte IS 30116134244−239
10 IK Frej 30911103842−438
11 IFK Värnamo 30811113540−535
12 Degerfors IF 3089133454−2033
13 Syrianska FC (O)30711122637−1132Qualification to Relegation playoffs
14 Assyriska FF (R)30610143647−1128
15 Ljungskile SK (R)3068163448−1426Relegation to Division 1
16 Ängelholms FF (R)3048182257−3520
Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Playoffs

The 13th-placed and 14th-placed teams in the Superettan met the two runners-up from 2016 Division 1 (Norra and Södra) in Two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis with the teams from the Superettan finishing at home.

Norrby IF 2–0 Assyriska FF
  • Krasnici Soccerball shade.svg70'
  • Savolainen Soccerball shade.svg79'
 Report
Borås Arena, Borås
Attendance: 1,341
Referee: Patrik Eriksson (Gävle)
Assyriska FF 2–2 Norrby IF
Report Yarsuvat Soccerball shade.svg11', 57'
Södertälje Fotbollsarena, Södertälje
Referee: Robert Daradic (Helsingborg)

Norrby IF won 4–2 on aggregate.

Vasalunds IF 0–2 Syrianska FC
Report Mete Soccerball shade.svg25', 63'
Skytteholms IP, Solna
Attendance: 957
Referee: Johan Krantz (Uppsala)
Syrianska FC 3–1 Vasalunds IF
Report Kabran Soccerball shade.svg81'
Södertälje Fotbollsarena, Södertälje
Attendance: 1,824
Referee: Magnus Lindgren (Gothenburg)

Syrianska FC won 5–1 on aggregate.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
IK Sirius 422456332333321111111111111111
AFC United 111221123222232333333333322222
Halmstads BK 1263112211111113222222222233333
Dalkurd FF 111067109667544444444444444444444
Varbergs BoIS 551168101111119666556689109755555555
Åtvidabergs FF 1316161195776477777785887888887666
Trelleborgs FF 10151213131415129899988879565567668887
GAIS 28101212139857888910997756676776778
Örgryte IS 7128573448101011131111101010109101111101111111099
IK Frej 16991011111315101313131010911111111111110101199991010
IFK Värnamo 9147944554655566556678999101010111211
Degerfors IF 151315161615121314161414121213131412121212121212131212121112
Syrianska FC 141114151412141012151616151516161615141313131313121313131313
Assyriska FF 3713141516161616111110111314141213131414141414141515151414
Ljungskile SK 8458688913121212141412121314151516161616151414141515
Ängelholms FF 634337101415141515161615151516161615151515161616161616
Promotion to Allsvenskan
Promotion play-offs
Relegation play-offs
Relegation to Division 1
Source: everysport.com (in Swedish)

Season statistics

Top scorers

RankPlayerClubGoals [3]
1 Flag of Sweden.svg Shkodran Maholli Åtvidabergs FF 15
2 Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Dragan Kapčević IK Sirius 14
3 Flag of Norway.svg Alexander Ruud Tveter Halmstads BK 13
4 Flag of Germany.svg Mirkan Aydın Dalkurd FF 12
Flag of Sweden.svg Marcus Pode Trelleborgs FF
6 Flag of Sweden.svg Pär Cederqvist IFK Värnamo 11
Flag of Sweden.svg Fredrik Olsson Halmstads BK

Top goalkeepers

(Minimum of 10 games played)

RankGoalkeeperClub
GPGASV% [4] CS
1 Flag of the United States.svg Josh Wicks AFC United 29168616
2 Flag of Sweden.svg Lukas Jonsson IK Sirius 19138211
3 Flag of Sweden.svg Fredrik Persson Trelleborgs FF 26278111
4 Flag of Sweden.svg Stojan Lukić Halmstads BK 30287815
Flag of Sweden.svg Benny Lekström IK Sirius 11103
6 Flag of Sweden.svg Tommi Vaiho GAIS 2935778
7 Flag of Sweden.svg Robertino Kljajic Örgryte IS 1927765
8 Flag of Norway.svg Jonathan Rasheed IFK Värnamo 30407410
9 Flag of Sweden.svg Marko Atanackovic IK Frej 2436734

Hat-tricks

PlayerForAgainstResultDate
Flag of Sweden.svg Luka Mijaljević
Flag of South Africa.svg Luther Singh		GAISÄngelholms FF 7–0 22 May 2016
Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Mohamed Buya Turay AFC UnitedSyrianska FC 1–3 29 May 2016
Flag of Germany.svg Mirkan Aydın Dalkurd FFÅtvidabergs FF 5–0 4 June 2016
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Dragan Kapčević 4 goalsIK SiriusAssyriska FF 5–3 24 July 2016
Flag of Sweden.svg Salif Camara JönssonTrelleborgs FFÅtvidabergs FF 5–2 15 August 2016
Flag of Sweden.svg Shkodran Maholli Åtvidabergs FFÄngelholms FF 4–1 5 November 2016

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