2016 Superettan

Superettan
Season 2016
Champions IK Sirius
Promoted IK Sirius
AFC United
Halmstads BK
Relegated Assyriska FF
Ljungskile SK
Ängelholms FF
Matches played 240
Goals scored 618 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer Shkodran Maholli (15 goals)
Biggest home win GAIS 7–0 Ängelholms FF (22 May 2016)
Biggest away win Ängelholms FF 0–4 IFK Värnamo (1 May 2016)
Highest scoring IK Sirius 5–3 Assyriska FF (24 July 2016)
Longest winning run 7 matches[1]
IK Sirius
Longest unbeaten run 11 matches
AFC United
Longest winless run 15 matches
Ängelholms FF
Longest losing run 6 matches
Ljungskile SK
Highest attendance 11,690
GAIS 0–0 Örgryte IS (30 April 2016)
Lowest attendance 181
AFC United 5–0 IFK Värnamo (7 August 2016)
Total attendance 414,399
Average attendance 1,727
2015
2017

The 2016 Superettan, part of the 2016 Swedish football season, will be the 16th 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 will end in November 2016.

A total of 16 teams will contest the league.

Teams

A total of 16 teams contest the league. The top two teams qualify directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third has to play a play-off against the fourteenth team from Allsvenskan to decide who will play in Allsvenskan 2017. The bottom two teams qualified directly for relegation to Division 1, the thirteenth and the fourteenth has to play a play-off against the numbers two teams from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who will play in Superettan 2017.

2015-champions Jönköpings Södra IF and runner-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

Team Location Stadium Turf1 Stadium capacity1 2015 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 Artificial 6,500 1st in Division 1 Norra
Degerfors IF Degerfors Stora Valla Natural 12,500 9th in Superettan
GAIS Gothenburg Gamla Ullevi Natural 18,416 11th in Superettan
Halmstads BK Halmstad Örjans Vall Natural 15,500 15th in Allsvenskan
IFK Värnamo Värnamo Finnvedsvallen Natural 5,000 10th in Superettan
IK Frej Täby Vikingavallen Artificial 2,750 14th in Superettan
IK Sirius Uppsala Studenternas IP Natural 6,300 3rd in Superettan
Ljungskile SK Ljungskile Uddevalla Arena Natural 8,000 6th in Superettan
Syrianska FC Södertälje Södertälje Fotbollsarena Artificial 6,400 7th in Superettan
Trelleborgs FF Trelleborg Vångavallen Natural 10,000 1st in Division 1 Södra
Varbergs BoIS Varberg Påskbergsvallen Natural 4,500 5th in Superettan
Åtvidabergs FF Åtvidaberg Kopparvallen Artificial 8,000 16th in Allsvenskan
Ängelholms FF Ängelholm Ängelholms IP Natural 5,000 12th in Superettan
Örgryte IS Gothenburg Gamla Ullevi Natural 18,416 2nd in Division 1 Södra

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 IK Sirius (C, P) 30 18 7 5 54 23 +31 61 Promotion to Allsvenskan
2 AFC United (P) 30 18 7 5 50 20 +30 61
3 Halmstads BK (O, P) 30 16 6 8 43 28 +15 54 Qualification to Promotion playoffs
4 Dalkurd FF 30 14 11 5 41 24 +17 53
5 Varbergs BoIS 30 14 6 10 33 37 4 48
6 Åtvidabergs FF 30 13 5 12 53 53 0 44
7 Trelleborgs FF 30 10 10 10 39 35 +4 40
8 GAIS 30 9 12 9 45 36 +9 39
9 Örgryte IS 30 11 6 13 42 44 2 39
10 IK Frej 30 9 11 10 38 42 4 38
11 IFK Värnamo 30 8 11 11 35 40 5 35
12 Degerfors IF 30 8 9 13 34 54 20 33
13 Syrianska FC (O) 30 7 11 12 26 37 11 32 Qualification to Relegation playoffs
14 Assyriska FF (R) 30 6 10 14 36 47 11 28
15 Ljungskile SK (R) 30 6 8 16 34 48 14 26 Relegation to Division 1
16 Ängelholms FF (R) 30 4 8 18 22 57 35 20
Updated to match(es) played on 4 November 2016. Source: svenskfotboll.se (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) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.

Playoffs

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


9 November 2016
19:00
Norrby IF 2 – 0 Assyriska FF
Krasnici  70'
Savolainen  79'
Report
Borås Arena, Borås
Attendance: 1,341
Referee: Patrik Eriksson (Gävle)

13 November 2016
17:00
Vasalunds IF 0 – 2 Syrianska FC
Report  25',  63' Mete
Skytteholms IP, Solna
Attendance: 957
Referee: Johan Krantz (Uppsala)

13 November 2016
15:00
Assyriska FF 2 – 2 Norrby IF
Genc  49'
Konwea  88'
Report  11',  57' Yarsuvat

Norrby IF won 4–2 on aggregate.

16 November 2016
19:00
Syrianska FC 3 – 1 Vasalunds IF
Mete  31'
Arquin  42'
Akintioye  73'
Report  81' Kabran
Södertälje Fotbollsarena, Södertälje
Attendance: 1,824
Referee: Magnus Lindgren (Gothenburg)

Syrianska FC won 5–1 on aggregate.


Positions by round

Team ╲ Round 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
IK Sirius 4 2 2 4 5 6 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
AFC United 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2
Halmstads BK 12 6 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3
Dalkurd FF 11 10 6 7 10 9 6 6 7 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Varbergs BoIS 5 5 11 6 8 10 11 11 11 9 6 6 6 5 5 6 6 8 9 10 9 7 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Åtvidabergs FF 13 16 16 11 9 5 7 7 6 4 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 5 8 8 7 8 8 8 8 8 7 6 6 6
Trelleborgs FF 10 15 12 13 13 14 15 12 9 8 9 9 9 8 8 8 7 9 5 6 5 5 6 7 6 6 8 8 8 7
GAIS 2 8 10 12 12 13 9 8 5 7 8 8 8 9 10 9 9 7 7 5 6 6 7 6 7 7 6 7 7 8
Örgryte IS 7 12 8 5 7 3 4 4 8 10 10 11 13 11 11 10 10 10 10 9 10 11 11 10 11 11 11 10 9 9
IK Frej 16 9 9 10 11 11 13 15 10 13 13 13 10 10 9 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 11 9 9 9 9 10 10
IFK Värnamo 9 14 7 9 4 4 5 5 4 6 5 5 5 6 6 5 5 6 6 7 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 11 12 11
Degerfors IF 15 13 15 16 16 15 12 13 14 16 14 14 12 12 13 13 14 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 13 12 12 12 11 12
Syrianska FC 14 11 14 15 14 12 14 10 12 15 16 16 15 15 16 16 16 15 14 13 13 13 13 13 12 13 13 13 13 13
Assyriska FF 3 7 13 14 15 16 16 16 16 11 11 10 11 13 14 14 12 13 13 14 14 14 14 14 14 15 15 15 14 14
Ljungskile SK 8 4 5 8 6 8 8 9 13 12 12 12 14 14 12 12 13 14 15 15 16 16 16 16 15 14 14 14 15 15
Ängelholms FF 6 3 4 3 3 7 10 14 15 14 15 15 16 16 15 15 15 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 16 16 16 16 16 16

Source: everysport.com (Swedish)

Promotion to Allsvenskan
Promotion play-offs
Relegation play-offs
Relegation to Division 1

Season statistics

Top goalkeepers

(Minimum of 10 games played)

Rank Goalkeeper Club
GP GA SV%[5] CS
1 United States Josh Wicks AFC United 29 16 86 16
2 Sweden Lukas Jonsson IK Sirius 19 13 82 11
3 Sweden Fredrik Persson Trelleborgs FF 26 27 81 11
4 Sweden Stojan Lukić Halmstads BK 30 28 78 15
Sweden Benny Lekström IK Sirius 11 10 3
6 Sweden Tommi Vaiho GAIS 29 35 77 8
7 Sweden Robertino Kljajic Örgryte IS 19 27 76 5
8 Norway Jonathan Rasheed IFK Värnamo 30 40 74 10
9 Sweden Marko Atanacković IK Frej 24 36 73 4

Hat-tricks

Player For Against Result Date
Sweden Luka Mijaljević
South Africa Luther Singh
GAISÄngelholms FF7–022 May 2016
Sierra Leone Mohamed BuyaAFC UnitedSyrianska FC1–329 May 2016
Germany Mirkan AydınDalkurd FFÅtvidabergs FF5–04 June 2016
Bosnia and Herzegovina Dragan Kapčević4 goalsIK SiriusAssyriska FF5–324 July 2016
Sweden Salif Camara JönssonTrelleborgs FFÅtvidabergs FF5–215 August 2016
Sweden Shkodran MaholliÅtvidabergs FFÄngelholms FF4–15 November 2016

References

  1. "Superettan form table". soccerstats.com. soccerstats.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  2. "Superettan" (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  3. "Skytteliga". The Swedish Football Association. The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  4. "Passningsliga". The Swedish Football Association. The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  5. "Målvaktsliga". The Swedish Football Association. The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 29 April 2016.

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