This article is about the swedish football league. For other uses, see Allsvenskan ( disambiguation ) Football league
Allsvenskan ( swedish pronunciation : [ ˈâlːˌsvɛnːskan ] ; english : the All-Swedish, besides 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 exceed tier of the swedish football league organization, operating on a system of forwarding and relegation with Superettan. Seasons run from deep March or early on April to the begin of November, with the 16 clubs all meet each other twice, resulting in a 30-match season, for a full of 240 matches league-wide.
Reading: Allsvenskan – Wikipedia
Allsvenskan is ranked 23rd in the UEFA coefficients of leagues based on performances in european competitions over the last five years. Allsvenskan is presently ranked moment highest of the leagues in Scandinavia after Denmark in 14th place. The current champions are Malmö FF, who won the title in the 2021 season. “ The Big Three “ in swedish football and Allsvenskan is used to refer to AIK, IFK Göteborg, and Malmö FF. They are generally considered to be the three largest clubs in Sweden from the three largest cities ( Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö ). The three teams with most swedish championships are Malmö FF ( 22 ), IFK Göteborg ( 18 ) and IFK Norrköping ( 13 ). Including the 2021 season, Allsvenskan has been running for an unbroken streak of 96 seasons. Unlike early european football leagues, the Allsvenskan did not experience an pause in free rein during World War II due to swedish neutrality .
history [edit ]
Allsvenskan started in the 1924–25 Allsvenskan season and the first achiever was GAIS. The one-league twelve team Allsvenskan replaced the Svenska Serien, consisting of a southern and northerly group that was held ahead. 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 startle was changed from fall 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 belated 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 prevailing, winning the league five times in a row, but entirely two swedish championships. The 1990 season saw the introduction of three points per winnings. The play-off season years were followed by two years of sequel league, named Mästerskapsserien. The 1993 season saw a revert 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 fiscal problems, and Assyriska FF got their place. Since 2008, the league consists of 16 teams .
status [edit ]
The champions are considered swedish champions and gold decoration winners. The runner-up are awarded the Large Silver decoration, the third base positioned team are awarded the Small Silver decoration and the team positioned in fourth invest are awarded the Bronze decoration. There have been seasons with exceptions when the winners of Allsvenskan was n’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 achiever of Svenska Mästerskapet up until 1925 and then not at all until 1930. The years 1982 through 1990 are besides exceptions, the title was alternatively decided through play-offs during these years. The lapp was truthful for the years 1991 and 1992 when the title was decided through a continuance league called Mästerskapsserien. Historically, however, there is a big dispute between the Allsvenskan winners before 1931 compared to the period between 1982 and 1992. As winning Allsvenskan in its earlier seasons was the optimum draw a bead on for the clubs, while as during the era of play-offs and Mästerskapsserien, the optimum goal was n’t to win Allsvenskan, but the play-offs or Mästerskapsserien .
competition format [edit ]
Since 2008 there are 16 clubs in Allsvenskan. During the path of a season ( starting in former March and ending in early November ) each club plays the others doubly ( base and off ) 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 place team in Superettan. The winners of Allsvenskan stipulate for the UEFA Champions League, the runner-up together with the third gear identify team in the table qualify for the UEFA Europa League american samoa 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 base Europa League spot is given to the team that finishes fourth in Allsvenskan .
Changes in competition format [edit ]
| 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 adequate number of points was goal proportion until the 1940–41 season, thereafter goal remainder .
Awards [edit ]
trophy [edit ]
The current trophy awarded to the swedish champions is the Lennart Johanssons Pokal. Created in 2001, the trophy is named after former UEFA president, Lennart Johansson. A different trophy that was named after Clarence von Rosen, the foremost president 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 late ill-famed Nazi drawing card 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 was not a personal attack against Von Rosen but quite that the Football Association did not want to be linked to Nazism and constantly engage in discussions regarding this every time the trophy was awarded. [ 1 ]
Player and coach awards [edit ]
In addition to the winner ‘s trophy and the individual winner ‘s medals awarded to players, Allsvenskan besides awards the most valuable player, goalkeeper of the year, defender of the class, midfielder of the year, forward of the year, newcomer of the class and director of year at Allsvenskans stora pris together with C More and Magasinet Offside. [ 2 ] besides, the Allsvenskan circus tent scorekeeper is awarded .
television [edit ]
sweden [edit ]
The swiss corporation Kentaro has owned the television receiver rights for Allsvenskan since 2006. [ 3 ] Through license agreements with the media party TV4 Group matches are aired through C More Entertainment who broadcasts them on their C More Sport and C More Live channels, until 2019. Matches can besides be bought through the on-line pay-per-view service C SPORTS. [ 4 ] On March 24, 2017, Discovery -owned channel Eurosport and OTT streaming avail dPlay will be the newly domestic broadcaster for both SEF competitions ( Allsvenskan and Superettan ) efficaciously from 2020 until 2025, angstrom well as selected european countries ( exc. Italy ) for Allsvenskan. [ 5 ]
International [edit ]
Beginning in 2018, Allsvenskan matches were previously broadcast in the UK on Premier Sports and FreeSports. [ 6 ] In October 2018, ESPN picked up the rights to broadcast one Allsvenskan match per workweek in the United States. [ 7 ] Allsvenskan matches have besides been broadcast in several countries, such as DAZN in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, Sport Klub in Balkan countries, [ 8 ] Nova sports in Cyprus and Greece, TV2 in Norway [ 9 ] and 4th Sports television receiver in Iraq [ 10 ]
Current broadcast rights [edit ]
Clubs [edit ]
A sum of 66 clubs have played in Allsvenskan from its origin in 1924 up to and including the 2020 season. No club have been a member of the league for every season since its origin. AIK are the club to have participated in most seasons with a commemorate of 91 seasons played out of 96 seasons in full. Malmö FF have the record of most consecutive seasons, 63 consecutive seasons between 1936–37 and 1999. IFK Göteborg are presently the cabaret with the longest running streak, starting their 44th season in 2020. The following 16 clubs are competing in Allsvenskan during the 2021 season :
Stadiums and locations [edit ]
stream team and stadiums :
Managers [edit ]
The stream managers in Allsvenskan are :
Players [edit ]
Appearances [edit ]
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 [edit ]
Until 1974, foreign players were banned from playing in Allsvenskan, however not on all levels of football in Sweden. [ 11 ] In the beginning season of allowance, on 13 April 1974, English Ronald Powell in Brynäs IF became the first gear foreign player in Allsvenskan [ 11 ] In 1977, tunisian Melke Amri became the first non-European player. In 1978, Icelandic Teitur Þórðarson in Östers IF became the first alien player to win the Allsvenskan [ 12 ]
top scorers [edit ]
Sven Jonasson has scored the most goals in Allsvenskan history, with 254 goals in 410 appearances. Gunnar Nordahl has become the top scorekeeper most times, with four wins .
former winners [edit ]
- Key
| 0000000000 | Season when the league didn’t decide the Swedish champions |
| 0000000000 | Season when Swedish champions wasn’t awarded at all |
Performances [edit ]
Medal postpone [edit ]
historically the players and coaching staff from the four best teams in Allsvenskan are awarded medals at the conclusion of each season. The champions are awarded the gold decoration while the runner-up receive the “ big silver ” decoration. The third station team gets the “ modest silver ” medal alternatively of the more normally used tan decoration which is alternatively awarded to the fourth-place finisher. This custom 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 tan medals since no bronze match was played. [ 13 ] The overall decoration rank is displayed below after points in descending rate. 5 points are awarded for a “ gold ” decoration, 3 points for a “ bad argent ” decoration, 2 points for a “ small ash grey ” decoration and 1 point for a bronze decoration. The board that follows is accurate as of the end of the 2020 season. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ]
Honoured clubs [edit ]
Clubs in european football are normally honoured for winning multiple league titles and a representative golden star is sometimes placed above the club badge to indicate the cabaret having won 10 league titles. In Sweden the star rather symbolizes 10 swedish championship titles for the majority of the clubs as the league winner has not always been awarded the deed of swedish champions. [ a ] Stars for Allsvenskan clubs was not common practice until 2006, although AIK had already introduced a star topology to their kit in 2000. IFK Göteborg, Malmö FF, IFK Norrköping, Örgryte IS and Djurgårdens IF were the first base teams after AIK to introduce their stars. No new club has introduced a ace 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 topology symbolize. The stick to postpone is ordered after total of stars followed by phone number of swedish backing titles and then the phone number of Allsvenskan titles.
- Statistics updated as of the end of the 2021 season
Cities [edit ]
StockholmKalmarBoråsGothenburgHelsingborgMalmöHalmstadNorrköpingÅtvidabergVäxjö
Locations of the cities that have won the league
all-time Allsvenskan table [edit ]
The all-time Allsvenskan postpone, “ maratontabellen ” in Swedish, is a accumulative record of all couple results, points, and goals of every team that has played in Allsvenskan since its origin in 1924–25. It uses three points for a acquire even though this system was not introduced until the 1990 temper. 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 2021 season. [ 17 ] Malmö FF are the stream leaders, having had the contribute 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 crown spot with 48 seasons as leaders with a commemorate 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 drawing card with the lowest current rank in the postpone is GAIS, presently placing 12th and 2010 points short-circuit of Malmö FF. A total of 66 clubs have played at least one season at Allsvenskan improving to and including 2021 temper .
Statistics [edit ]
UEFA coefficients [edit ]
The follow datum indicates swedish coefficient rankings between european football leagues. [ 18 ]
attendance [edit ]
| Year | Spectators per match |
|---|---|
| 2015 |
9,967 |
| 2016 |
9,127 |
| 2017 |
9,215 |
| 2018 |
8,423 |
| 2019 |
9,166 |
The criminal record for highest modal home attendance for a clubhouse 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 witness records for highest attendance at a match ( 52,194 at an Örgryte succeed over IFK Göteborg at Ullevi ), second gear highest average home attendance for a club ( 25,490 for Örgryte ‘s 11 family matches ), and the highest always average attendance for Allsvenskan as a wholly ( 13,369 ). AIK has had the league ‘s highest attendance for the temper more frequently 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 [edit ]
Allsvenskan has 23 active referees that are available for matches as of the 2020 season. presently there are seven fully certify external FIFA referees in Allsvenskan. There are besides a far twelve referees who are certified by the Swedish Football Association who have refereed matches in Allsvenskan. A foster four referees certified by the Swedish Football Association are available to referee Allsvenskan matches but have not done so as of 2020. [ 21 ]
FIFA certified referees [edit ]
Allsvenskan in international rival [edit ]
Malmö FF were runners up in the 1978–79 european Cup, after a 1–0 frustration against Nottingham Forest. [ 22 ] IFK Göteborg won the UEFA Cup doubly, in 1981–82 ( defeating Hamburger SV in the finals ) [ 23 ] and 1986–87 ( defeating Dundee United in the finals ). [ 24 ] IFK Göteborg besides 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 gunfight. [ 25 ] The follow teams have participated in the UEFA Champions League or UEFA-Cup/UEFA Europa League group stages :
See besides [edit ]
- ^[16] The title of “ swedish Champions ” has been awarded to the winner of four different competitions over the years. between 1896 and 1925 the claim was awarded to the winner of Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No clubhouse 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 achiever 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 achiever of Mästerskapsserien, an extra league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the winner of Allsvenskan .
- ^Hammarby IF were deducted three points in 2006
- ^Ljungskile SK were known as Panos Ljungskile SK during the season of 1997