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.
| Season | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Champions | IK Sirius |
| Promoted | |
| Relegated | |
| 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 → | |
Teams edit
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 edit
- 1 According to each club information page at the Swedish Football Association website for Superettan.[2]
League table edit
| 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 |
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 edit
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 |
|---|---|---|
|
Report |
| Assyriska FF | 2–2 | Norrby IF |
|---|---|---|
|
Report | Yarsuvat  11', 57' |
Norrby IF won 4–2 on aggregate.
| Vasalunds IF | 0–2 | Syrianska FC |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Mete 25', 63' |
| Syrianska FC | 3–1 | Vasalunds IF |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Kabran 81' |
Syrianska FC won 5–1 on aggregate.
Positions by round edit
| Promotion to Allsvenskan | |
| Promotion play-offs | |
| Relegation play-offs | |
| Relegation to Division 1 |
Season statistics edit
Top scorers edit
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals[3] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Shkodran Maholli
|
Åtvidabergs FF | 15 |
| 2 |  Dragan Kapčević
|
IK Sirius | 14 |
| 3 |  Alexander Ruud Tveter
|
Halmstads BK | 13 |
| 4 |  Mirkan Aydın
|
Dalkurd FF | 12 |
| Marcus Pode
|
Trelleborgs FF | ||
| 6 | Pär Cederqvist
|
IFK Värnamo | 11 |
| Fredrik Olsson
|
Halmstads BK |
Top goalkeepers edit
(Minimum of 10 games played)
| Rank | Goalkeeper | Club |
GP | GA | SV%[4] | CS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Josh Wicks
|
AFC United | 29 | 16 | 86 | 16 |
| 2 | Lukas Jonsson
|
IK Sirius | 19 | 13 | 82 | 11 |
| 3 | Fredrik Persson
|
Trelleborgs FF | 26 | 27 | 81 | 11 |
| 4 | Stojan Lukić
|
Halmstads BK | 30 | 28 | 78 | 15 |
| Benny Lekström
|
IK Sirius | 11 | 10 | 3 | ||
| 6 | Tommi Vaiho
|
GAIS | 29 | 35 | 77 | 8 |
| 7 | Robertino Kljajic
|
Örgryte IS | 19 | 27 | 76 | 5 |
| 8 | Jonathan Rasheed
|
IFK Värnamo | 30 | 40 | 74 | 10 |
| 9 | Marko Atanacković
|
IK Frej | 24 | 36 | 73 | 4 |
Hat-tricks edit
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Luka Mijaljević Luther Singh |
GAIS | Ängelholms FF | 7–0 | 22 May 2016 |
 Mohamed Buya Turay |
AFC United | Syrianska FC | 1–3 | 29 May 2016 |
| Mirkan Aydın |
Dalkurd FF | Åtvidabergs FF | 5–0 | 4 June 2016 |
| Dragan Kapčević4 goals |
IK Sirius | Assyriska FF | 5–3 | 24 July 2016 |
| Salif Camara Jönsson |
Trelleborgs FF | Åtvidabergs FF | 5–2 | 15 August 2016 |
| Shkodran Maholli |
Åtvidabergs FF | Ängelholms FF | 4–1 | 5 November 2016 |
References edit
- ^ "Superettan form table". soccerstats.com. soccerstats.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ "Superettan" (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ^ "Skytteliga". The Swedish Football Association. The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
- ^ "Målvaktsliga". The Swedish Football Association. The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
External links edit
- Official website (in Swedish)