2022 Allsvenskan

Allsvenskan 2022
Season information
Dates	2 April–6 November 2022
Winners	BK Häcken 1st Allsvenskan title 1st Swedish title
Relegated	Helsingborgs IF GIF Sundsvall
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	BK Häcken
Europa Conference League	Djurgårdens IF Hammarby IF
Season statistics
Matches played	240
Goals scored	664
Average	(2.43 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alexander Jeremejeff (22)
Biggest home win	Djurgården 5–0 Värnamo (16 July 2022) Häcken 5–0 Helsingborg (8 August 2022)
Biggest away win	Degerfors 0–6 Elfsborg (1 May 2022)
Highest scoring	Elfsborg 4–4 Häcken (31 July 2022)
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The 2022 Allsvenskan was the 98th season since its establishment in 1924 of Sweden's top-level football league, Allsvenskan. A total of 16 teams participated. Malmö FF were the defending champions after winning the title in the previous season.

The 2022 Allsvenskan season began on 2 April and ended on 6 November 2022 (not including play-off matches).

Teams

A total of sixteen teams are contesting the league, including therteen sides from the previous season, and three promoted teams from the 2021 Superettan.

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Turf	Stadium capacity
AIK	Solna	Friends Arena	Natural	50,000
BK Häcken	Gothenburg	Bravida Arena	Artificial	6,500
Degerfors IF	Degerfors	Stora Valla	Natural	7,500
Djurgårdens IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	Artificial	30,000
GIF Sundsvall	Sundsvall	NP3 Arena	Artificial	8,000
Hammarby IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	Artificial	30,000
Helsingborgs IF	Helsingborg	Olympia	Natural	16,500
IF Elfsborg	Borås	Borås Arena	Artificial	16,899
IFK Göteborg	Gothenburg	Gamla Ullevi	Natural	18,600
IFK Norrköping	Norrköping	Nya Parken	Artificial	15,734
IFK Värnamo	Värnamo	Finnvedsvallen	Natural	5,000
IK Sirius	Uppsala	Studenternas IP	Artificial	10,000
Kalmar FF	Kalmar	Guldfågeln Arena	Natural	12,000
Malmö FF	Malmö	Malmö Stadion	Natural	22,500
Mjällby AIF	Hällevik	Strandvallen	Natural	6,750
Varbergs BoIS	Varberg	Påskbergsvallen	Natural	4,500

Personnel and kits

All teams are obligated to have the logo of the league sponsor Unibet 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 coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main shirt sponsor
AIK	Grzelak, BartoszBartosz Grzelak	TBD	Nike	Notar
BK Häcken	Høgmo, Per-MathiasPer-Mathias Høgmo	Lindgren, RasmusRasmus Lindgren	Puma	BRA
Degerfors IF	Holmberg, AndreasAndreas Holmberg Solberg, TobiasTobias Solberg	Ekroth, OliverOliver Ekroth	Umbro	Various
Djurgårdens IF	Bergstrand, KimKim Bergstrand Lagerlöf, ThomasThomas Lagerlöf	Eriksson, MagnusMagnus Eriksson	Adidas	Prioritet Finans
GIF Sundsvall	Åhnstrand, HenrikHenrik Åhnstrand	Engblom, PontusPontus Engblom	Adidas
Hammarby IF	TBD	Bojanić, DarijanDarijan Bojanić	Craft	Huski Chocolate
Helsingborgs IF	Jörgen Lennartsson	Anthony van den Hurk	Puma
IF Elfsborg	Thelin, JimmyJimmy Thelin	Larsson, JohanJohan Larsson	Umbro	Sparbanken Sjuhärad
IFK Göteborg	Stahre, MikaelMikael Stahre	Berg, MarcusMarcus Berg	Craft	Serneke
IFK Norrköping	Norling, RikardRikard Norling	Nyman, ChristofferChristoffer Nyman	Nike	Holmen
IFK Värnamo	Hellberg, KimKim Hellberg	Freddy Winsth	Puma
IK Sirius	Bäckström, DanielDaniel Bäckström	Björkström, TimTim Björkström	Select	Various
Kalmar FF	Rydström, HenrikHenrik Rydström	Israelsson, ErikErik Israelsson	Select	Hjältevadshus
Malmö FF	Milojević, MilošMiloš Milojević	Christiansen, AndersAnders Christiansen	Puma	Volkswagen
Mjällby AIF	Brännström, AndreasAndreas Brännström	Löfquist, DavidDavid Löfquist	Puma	Various
Varbergs BoIS	Persson, JoakimJoakim Persson	Birkfeldt, JonJon Birkfeldt	Craft	Various

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
IFK Värnamo	Robin Asterhed	End of contract	18 November 2021	Pre-season	Kim Hellberg	6 December 2021
Hammarby IF	Miloš Milojević	Sacked	13 December 2021		Martí Cifuentes	12 January 2022
Mjällby AIF	Anders Torstensson	End of contract	29 December 2021		Andreas Brännström	29 December 2021
Malmö FF	Jon Dahl Tomasson	Mutual consent	30 December 2021		Miloš Milojević	7 January 2022
Helsingborgs IF	Jörgen Lennartsson	Sacked	22 May 2022	15th	Mattias Lindström Álvaro Santos	31 May 2022
IFK Norrköping	Rikard Norling	Sacked	11 July 2022	11th	Glen Riddersholm	8 Aug 2022
GIF Sundsvall	Henrik Åhnstrand	Sacked	28 July 2022	15th	Brian Clarhaut	28 July 2022
Malmö FF	Miloš Milojević	Sacked	29 July 2022	5th	Andreas Georgson (interim)	29 July 2022
AIK	Bartosz Grzelak	Sacked	19 August 2022	5th	Henok Goitom (interim)	19 August 2022
Malmö FF	Andreas Georgson	End of interim spell	6 September 2022	7th	Åge Hareide	6 September 2022

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	BK Häcken (C)	30	18	10	2	69	37	+32	64	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Djurgårdens IF (Q)	30	17	6	7	55	25	+30	57	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
3	Hammarby IF (Q)	30	16	8	6	60	27	+33	56
4	Kalmar FF	30	15	6	9	41	27	+14	51
5	AIK	30	14	8	8	45	36	+9	50
6	IF Elfsborg	30	13	10	7	55	35	+20	49
7	Malmö FF	30	13	7	10	44	34	+10	46
8	IFK Göteborg	30	14	3	13	42	39	+3	45
9	Mjällby AIF	30	11	10	9	33	33	0	43
10	IFK Värnamo	30	9	10	11	34	47	−13	37
11	IK Sirius	30	9	8	13	31	42	−11	35
12	IFK Norrköping	30	8	10	12	40	42	−2	34
13	Degerfors IF	30	7	10	13	32	49	−17	31
14	Varbergs BoIS (O)	30	8	7	15	31	57	−26	31	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
15	Helsingborgs IF (R)	30	4	5	21	22	52	−30	17	Relegation to Superettan
16	GIF Sundsvall (R)	30	4	2	24	28	80	−52	14

Source: svenskfotboll.se
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off
(Note: Play-off is only played if need to decide champion, teams for relegation or UEFA competition and will be played on a neutral ground).
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AIK	BKH	DEG	DIF	GIFS	HAM	HIF	IFE	IFKG	IFKN	IFKV	IKS	KFF	MFF	MAIF	VAR
AIK		1–2	1–1	1–0	4–0	2–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0
BK Häcken	4–2		2–2	1–2	4–1	1–1	5–0	1–1	0–2	3–3	4–1	4–3	3–1	2–1	1–0	3–1
Degerfors IF	1–1	1–2		3–0	3–1	0–1	2–1	0–6	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–2	0–0	1–1
Djurgårdens IF	1–2	0–1	3–1		4–0	1–0	2–2	2–1	3–0	2–1	5–0	4–0	3–2	4–0	0–1	4–0
GIF Sundsvall	0–2	1–5	2–3	2–5		1–5	1–2	0–2	3–2	1–3	1–2	2–3	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–3
Hammarby	3–3	2–2	5–1	0–0	3–0		2–1	3–0	3–0	3–0	1–2	1–1	4–2	0–0	2–0	5–1
Helsingborgs IF	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	0–2		1–0	0–1	0–1	1–4	0–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–3
IF Elfsborg	2–2	4–4	1–1	0–0	3–1	2–1	3–0		3–1	1–1	4–1	3–0	0–2	3–2	0–2	4–1
IFK Göteborg	1–0	0–4	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–3	1–3		2–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–1
IFK Norrköping	2–4	1–1	2–0	0–1	5–1	4–1	2–0	2–2	0–2		2–0	0–1	2–2	0–2	2–2	0–1
IFK Värnamo	2–3	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	1–4	1–1		0–0	1–3	0–0	2–1	1–0
IK Sirius	1–1	0–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	0–3	1–0	2–0	1–2	2–0	2–3		0–0	2–1	0–1	2–3
Kalmar FF	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1		0–1	1–2	1–0
Malmö FF	3–0	1–2	2–2	2–3	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–1	0–1		2–0	3–0
Mjällby AIF	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–3	2–1	1–1	1–4	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–1		4–1
Varbergs BoIS	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	0–3	0–0	0–3	0–4	1–1	3–0	0–2	0–3	2–5	0–0

Source: Swedish Football Association
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Relegation play-offs

The 14th-placed team of Allsvenskan will meet the third-placed team from 2022 Superettan in a two-legged tie on a home-and-away basis with the team from Allsvenskan finishing at home.

10 November 2022 19:00	Östers IF	1–2	Varbergs BoIS	Visma Arena Attendance: 6,705 Referee: Andreas Ekberg
	Varmanen  21'	Report	Simović  41', 46'

13 November 2022 15:00	Varbergs BoIS	2–1	Östers IF	Påskbergsvallen Attendance: 3,738 Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim
	Tranberg  26' Carlsson  75'	Report	Westermark  65'

Varbergs BoIS won 4–2 on aggregate.

Season statistics

Top scorers As of 6 November 2022 Rank Player Club Goals 1 Alexander Jeremejeff BK Häcken 22 2 Marcus Antonsson IFK Värnamo 20 3 Marcus Berg IFK Göteborg 13 4 Isaac Kiese Thelin Malmö FF 12 Gustav Ludwigson Hammarby IF 6 Nahir Besara Hammarby IF 11 Pontus Engblom GIF Sundsvall Christoffer Nyman IFK Norrköping Mikkel Rygaard BK Häcken 10 Gustaf Norlin IFK Göteborg 10

Top assists As of 6 November 2022 Rank Player Club Assists 1 Nahir Besara Hammarby IF 11 2 Moustafa Zeidan IK Sirius Malmö FF 10 3 Victor Edvardsen Djurgårdens IF 9 Magnus Eriksson Djurgårdens IF 5 Oliver Berg Kalmar FF 8 Mohanad Jeahze Hammarby IF 7 Anders Christiansen Malmö FF 7 Jonathan Levi IFK Norrköping Kristoffer Lund BK Häcken Sebastian Nanasi Malmö FF Kalmar FF

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Alexander Jeremejeff	Häcken	AIK	4–2	2 April 2022
Rasmus Alm	Elfsborg	Degerfors	0–6	1 May 2022
Abdelrahman Saidi	Degerfors	Sundsvall	2–3	9 May 2022
Alexander Jeremejeff	Häcken	Elfsborg	4–4	31 July 2022
Oscar Uddenäs	Häcken	Helsingborg	5–0	8 August 2022
Marcus Antonsson	Värnamo	Helsingborg	3–2	5 September 2022
Victor Edvardsen	Djurgården	Göteborg	3–0	18 September 2022
Ola Toivonen	Malmö	Varberg	5–2	30 October 2022

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 11
  • Jon Birkfeldt (Varberg)

• Most red cards: 1
  • Peter Abrahamsson (Häcken)
  • Amir Al-Ammari (Mjällby)
  • Yasin Ayari (AIK)
  • Marcus Berg (Göteborg)
  • Alexander Blomqvist (Sundsvall)
  • Joe Corona (Sundsvall)
  • Nikola Đurđić (Degerfors)
  • Noah Eile (Mjällby)
  • John Guidetti (AIK)
  • Joe Gyau (Degerfors)
  • Kadir Hodžić (Häcken)
  • Jonas Knudsen (Malmö)
  • Alexander Jeremejeff (Häcken)
  • Wilhelm Loeper (Helsingborg)
  • Marco Lund (Norrköping)
  • Sebastian Ohlsson (Degerfors)
  • Tashreeq Matthews (Varberg)
  • Collins Sichenje (AIK)
  • Felipe Sissé (Varberg)
  • Vincent Thill (AIK)
  • Bernardo Vilar (Värnamo)
  • Wenderson (Värnamo)
  • Dennis Widgren (Sirius)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 89
  • Varberg

• Most red cards: 4
  • AIK

External links

• Official website (Swedish)

2022 Swedish football
Domestic leagues
Allsvenskan · Superettan · Ettan
Domestic cups
Svenska Cupen (2021–22, 2022–23)
European competitions
Champions League (Final) · Europa League (Final) · UEFA Europa Conference League (Final)
2021                                                        2023