2018 Allsvenskan

Allsvenskan 2018
Season information
Winners	AIK 6th Allsvenskan title 12th Swedish championship title
Relegated	IF Brommapojkarna Dalkurd FF Trelleborgs FF
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	AIK
Europa League	IFK Norrköping Malmö FF
Season statistics
Top goalscorer	Paulinho (20 goals)
Biggest home win	Häcken 6–0 Brommapojkarna (26 August 2018)
Biggest away win	Trelleborg 1–6 Sundsvall (13 August 2018) Dalkurd 0–5 Häcken (27 October 2018)
Highest scoring	Östersund 5–2 Sirius (23 May 2018) Trelleborg 1–6 Sundsvall (13 August 2018)
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The 2018 Allsvenskan, part of the 2018 Swedish football season, was the 94th season of Allsvenskan since its establishment in 1924. A total of 16 teams will participate.

Malmö FF were the defending champions after winning the title in the previous season. AIK won the Swedish championship this season, their sixth Allsvenskan title and 12th Swedish championship overall, in the 30th round on 11 November when they won 0–1 in the away fixture against Kalmar FF at Guldfågeln Arena.

Teams

A total of sixteen teams are contesting the league, including thirteen sides from the previous season, two promoted teams from the 2017 Superettan and one team from the 2017 Allsvenskan play-offs.

Halmstads BK and AFC Eskilstuna were relegated at the end of the 2017 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by 2017 Superettan champions IF Brommapojkarna and runners-up Dalkurd FF. IF Brommapojkarna returned to Allsvenskan after three years' absence, having been relegated at the end of the 2014 season. This is IF Brommapojkarna's sixth season in the league. Dalkurd FF are participating in the league for the first time in the club's history; they are the fourth new club in the last five Allsvenskan seasons (following Falkenbergs FF in 2014, Östersunds FK in 2016 and AFC Eskilstuna in 2017).

The final spot was taken by the 2017 Allsvenskan play-offs winner; Trelleborgs FF, third-placed team in 2017 Superettan.

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Turf1	Stadium capacity1
AIK	Stockholm	Friends Arena	Natural	50,000
BK Häcken	Gothenburg	Bravida Arena	Artificial	6,500
Dalkurd FF	Gävle	Gavlevallen	Artificial	6,500
Djurgårdens IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	Artificial	30,000
GIF Sundsvall	Sundsvall	Idrottsparken	Artificial	7,700
Hammarby IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	Artificial	30,000
IF Brommapojkarna	Stockholm	Grimsta IP	Artificial	8,000
IF Elfsborg	Borås	Borås Arena	Artificial	16,899
IFK Göteborg	Gothenburg	Gamla Ullevi	Natural	18,600
IFK Norrköping	Norrköping	Nya Parken	Artificial	15,734
IK Sirius	Uppsala	Studenternas IP	Natural	6,300
Kalmar FF	Kalmar	Guldfågeln Arena	Natural	12,000
Malmö FF	Malmö	Stadion	Natural	22,500
Örebro SK	Örebro	Behrn Arena	Artificial	12,300
Östersunds FK	Östersund	Jämtkraft Arena	Artificial	8,466
Trelleborgs FF	Trelleborg	Vångavallen	Natural	7,000

• ¹ According to each club information page at the Swedish Football Association website for Allsvenskan.

Personnel and sponsoring

All teams are obligated to have the logo of the league sponsor Svenska Spel as well as the Allsvenskan logo on the right sleeve of their shirt.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head coach1	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main shirt sponsor
AIK	Norling, RikardRikard Norling	Goitom, HenokHenok Goitom	Nike	Notar
BK Häcken	Alm, AndreasAndreas Alm	Lindgren, RasmusRasmus Lindgren	Nike	BRA Bygg
Dalkurd FF	Sandahl, JohanJohan Sandahl	Azizi, PeshrawPeshraw Azizi	Adidas	Min Stora Dag
Djurgårdens IF	Melkemichel, ÖzcanÖzcan Melkemichel	Olsson, JonasJonas Olsson	Adidas	Prioritet Finans
GIF Sundsvall	Cedergren, JoelJoel Cedergren	Naurin, TommyTommy Naurin	Adidas	SCA
Hammarby IF	Stefan Billborn	Bakircioglu, KennedyKennedy Bakircioglu	Puma	Jobman
IF Brommapojkarna	Björknesjö, RoberthRoberth Björknesjö	Sandberg Magnusson, GustavGustav Sandberg Magnusson	Nike	Bauhaus
IF Elfsborg	Thelin, JimmyJimmy Thelin	Stuhr Ellegaard, KevinKevin Stuhr Ellegaard	Umbro	Pulsen
IFK Göteborg	Asbaghi, PoyaPoya Asbaghi	Eriksson, SebastianSebastian Eriksson	Kappa	Prioritet Finans
IFK Norrköping	Gustafsson, JensJens Gustafsson	Johansson, AndreasAndreas Johansson	Nike	Holmen
IK Sirius	Bergstrand, KimKim Bergstrand	Ogbu, MosesMoses Ogbu	Nike	Various
Kalmar FF	Bergstrand, NanneNanne Bergstrand	Elm, ViktorViktor Elm	Hummel	Hjältevadshus
Malmö FF	Rösler, UweUwe Rösler	Rosenberg, MarkusMarkus Rosenberg	Puma	Volkswagen
Trelleborgs FF	Winqvist, PatrickPatrick Winqvist	Camara Jönsson, SalifSalif Camara Jönsson	Nike	Mellby Gård
Örebro SK	Kjäll, AxelAxel Kjäll	Gerzić, NordinNordin Gerzić	Puma	Ambitiös
Östersunds FK	Ian Burchnall	Pettersson, TomTom Pettersson	Adidas	Various

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
IFK Göteborg	Alf Westerberg	End of caretaker spell	November 20, 2017	Pre-season	Poya Asbaghi	November 21, 2017
IF Brommapojkarna	Olof Mellberg	Resigned	November 21, 2017		Luís Berkemeier Pimenta	December 13, 2017
BK Häcken	Mikael Stahre	Resigned	November 26, 2017		Andreas Alm	December 8, 2017
IF Elfsborg	Nemanja Miljanović Janne Mian	End of caretaker spell	December 6, 2017		Jimmy Thelin	December 6, 2017
Hammarby IF	Jakob Michelsen	Sacked	January 4, 2018		Stefan Billborn	January 10, 2018
Dalkurd FF	Andreas Brännström	Sacked	January 8, 2018		Azrudin Valentić	January 8, 2018
Malmö FF	Magnus Pehrsson	Sacked	May 14, 2018	10th	Daniel Andersson (caretaker)	May 14, 2018
Dalkurd FF	Azrudin Valentić	Sacked	May 25, 2018	16th	Adil Kizil (caretaker)	May 25, 2018
Östersunds FK	Graham Potter	Signed by Swansea City	Jun 04, 2018	6th	Ian Burchnall (caretaker)	June 4, 2018
Malmö FF	Daniel Andersson	End of caretaker spell	June 12, 2018	10th	Uwe Rösler	June 12, 2018
Dalkurd FF	Adil Kizil	End of caretaker spell	June 15, 2018	15th	Johan Sandahl	June 15, 2018
Östersunds FK	Ian Burchnall	Caretaker made permanent manager	July 18, 2018	5th	Ian Burchnall	July 18, 2018
IF Brommapojkarna	Luís Berkemeier Pimenta	Sacked	September 5, 2018	14th	Roberth Björknesjö	September 7, 2018

League table

2018 Allsvenskan table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AIK  (C)	30	19	10	1	50	16	+34	67	Promotion to the Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	IFK Norrköping	30	19	8	3	51	27	+24	65	Qualification to the Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
3	Malmö FF	30	17	7	6	57	29	+28	58
4	Hammarby IF	30	17	7	6	56	35	+21	58
5	BK Häcken	30	16	5	9	58	27	+31	53
6	Östersunds FK	30	15	4	11	51	39	+12	49
7	Djurgårdens IF	30	13	9	8	40	31	+9	48
8	GIF Sundsvall	30	12	8	10	47	35	+12	44
9	Örebro SK	30	9	8	13	34	40	−6	35
10	Kalmar FF	30	9	7	14	27	35	−8	34
11	IFK Göteborg	30	9	4	17	38	53	−15	31
12	IF Elfsborg	30	7	9	14	29	41	−12	30
13	IK Sirius	30	8	6	16	37	61	−24	30
14	IF Brommapojkarna  (R)	30	8	2	20	25	64	−39	26	Relegation to the Qualification for the relegation play-offs
15	Dalkurd FF  (R)	30	6	6	18	30	57	−27	24	Relegation to the Relegation to Superettan
16	Trelleborgs FF  (R)	30	3	6	21	24	64	−40	15

Source: svenskfotboll.se (Swedish)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Results

Home \ Away

AIK

BKH

DFF

DIF

GIFS

HAM

BP

IFE

IFKG

IFKN

IKS

KFF

MFF

TFF

ÖSK

ÖFK

AIK

3–0

2–0

2–0

0–0

1–0

5–1

1–0

2–0

3–3

2–0

1–0

1–1

2–0

1–1

1–1

BK Häcken

1–1

3–0

5–0

3–0

2–2

6–0

5–0

4–1

0–1

2–1

1–0

1–1

2–1

1–1

2–0

Dalkurd FF

0–4

0–5

1–2

2–2

2–3

3–0

1–4

1–1

0–2

1–3

1–2

0–1

2–2

1–0

3–0

Djurgårdens IF

0–0

2–1

1–0

1–1

1–2

0–1

2–2

2–0

1–1

1–0

0–2

3–0

1–1

2–0

0–2

GIF Sundsvall

0–1

0–2

0–1

1–1

2–3

3–0

2–1

2–0

1–1

4–0

2–0

2–2

1–0

0–0

2–3

Hammarby IF

0–1

1–0

4–1

1–3

4–3

4–0

0–1

3–0

2–1

3–1

0–0

3–2

1–0

2–0

1–2

IF Brommapojkarna

0–2

2–0

2–1

1–0

1–3

2–4

0–2

0–2

0–1

0–1

2–1

0–3

3–0

0–0

0–4

IF Elfsborg

0–0

0–3

0–0

2–2

2–0

0–0

1–2

1–1

0–1

0–1

1–1

1–2

2–1

1–0

0–2

IFK Göteborg

0–2

2–1

1–0

1–3

1–2

1–2

3–0

2–2

0–2

2–3

1–3

0–3

2–2

2–0

2–1

IFK Norrköping

2–0

2–1

4–2

1–1

1–0

0–0

2–1

1–0

2–1

1–0

3–1

3–1

1–2

3–2

4–2

IK Sirius

2–3

0–0

2–3

1–5

1–3

1–1

4–2

4–2

3–2

1–1

1–1

0–4

1–1

2–4

0–1

Kalmar FF

0–1

1–2

0–0

0–1

0–2

1–1

1–1

1–0

2–1

1–2

1–0

3–0

2–1

0–1

1–1

Malmö FF

1–1

2–0

1–1

1–0

0–0

2–1

3–1

2–0

1–2

2–1

5–0

4–0

3–0

4–0

1–1

Trelleborgs FF

1–4

0–3

0–1

0–3

1–6

1–3

2–1

2–2

1–3

1–1

1–2

0–1

1–0

1–2

0–1

Örebro SK

1–1

1–2

3–2

1–1

2–1

1–2

0–1

1–2

1–3

1–1

0–0

2–1

1–2

4–0

2–1

Östersunds FK

1–2

2–0

3–0

0–1

1–2

3–3

3–1

1–0

2–0

1–2

5–2

2–0

2–3

4–1

0–2

Source: Swedish Football Association (Swedish)
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

The 14th-placed team of Allsvenskan meets the third-placed team from 2018 Superettan in a two-legged tie on a home-and-away basis with the team from Allsvenskan finishing at home.

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22 November 2018 19:00	AFC Eskilstuna	0–1	IF Brommapojkarna	Tunavallen, Eskilstuna Attendance: 3,465 Referee: Stefan Johannesson
		Report	Lahne  12'

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25 November 2018 14:45	IF Brommapojkarna	1–2	AFC Eskilstuna	Grimsta IP, Stockholm Attendance: 1,925 Referee: Andreas Ekberg
	Öhman  39'	Report	Nnamani  65' Ajeti  75'

2–2 on aggregate. AFC Eskilstuna won on away goals.

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Season statistics

Top scorers As of 11 November 2018 Rank Player Club Goals 1 Paulinho BK Häcken 20 2 Linus Hallenius GIF Sundsvall 18 3 Nikola Đurđić Hammarby IF 13 Romain Gall GIFS / MFF Markus Rosenberg Malmö FF 6 Henok Goitom AIK 12 7 Jiloan Hamad Hammarby IF 11 Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Jiloan Hamad Hammarby Sirius 3–1 1 April 2018 Pa Dibba Hammarby Sundsvall 4–3 5 May 2018 Paulinho Häcken Trelleborg 0–3 6 May 2018 Tino Kadewere4 goals Djurgården Sirius 1–5 27 May 2018 Nicolás Stefanelli AIK Brommapojkarna 5–1 22 July 2018 Elías Már Ómarsson IFK Göteborg Brommapojkarna 3–0 28 July 2018 Linus Hallenius Sundsvall Trelleborg 1–6 13 August 2018 Dino Islamović Östersund Brommapojkarna 3–1 26 September 2018 Philip Haglund Sirius Brommapojkarna 4–2 28 October 2018

Top assists As of 11 November 2018 Rank Player Club Assists 1 Hosam Aiesh Östersunds FK 10 2 Nahir Besara Örebro SK 8 3 Jonathan Tamimi GIF Sundsvall 7 4 Linus Hallenius GIF Sundsvall 6 Daleho Irandust BK Häcken Eric Larsson Malmö FF Simon Lundevall IF Elfsborg Paulinho BK Häcken Markus Rosenberg Malmö FF Monthly awards Month Allsvenskan Player of the Month Player Club April Jiloan Hamad Hammarby IF May Pa Dibba Hammarby IF July Saman Ghoddos Östersunds FK August Paulinho BK Häcken September Henok Goitom AIK October Paulinho BK Häcken

See also

• 2018 Superettan
• 2018 Division 1
• 2017–18 Svenska Cupen
• 2018–19 Svenska Cupen

External links

• Official website (Swedish)