Allsvenskan 2017

Allsvenskan 2017
Season information
Winners	Malmö FF 23rd Allsvenskan title 20th Swedish title
Relegated	J-Södra Halmstads BK AFC Eskilstuna
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Malmö FF
Europa League	AIK Djurgården BK Häcken
Season statistics
Matches played	240
Goals scored	667
Top goalscorer	Magnus Eriksson Karl Holmberg (14 goals)
Biggest home win	Malmö FF 6–0 Kalmar FF (11 August 2017) Malmö FF 6–0 IF Elfsborg (25 September 2017)
Biggest away win	BK Häcken 1–6 AIK (24 September 2017)
Highest scoring	IF Elfsborg 4–4 Östersunds FK (2 May 2017)
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The 2017 Allsvenskan, part of the 2017 Swedish football season, is the 93rd season of Allsvenskan since its establishment in 1924. The season began on 1 April 2017 and ended on 5 November the same year. Fixtures for the 2017 season were announced on 9 December 2016. A total of 16 teams participated.

Malmö FF were the defending champions after winning the title in the previous season. Malmö FF won the Swedish championship this season, their 23rd Allsvenskan title and 20th Swedish championship overall, in the 27th round on 16 October 2017 when they won 3–1 in the away fixture against IFK Norrköping at Östgötaporten.

Teams

A total of sixteen teams are contesting the league, including thirteen sides from the previous season, two promoted teams from the 2016 Superettan and one team from the 2016 Allsvenskan play-offs.

Gefle IF and Falkenbergs FF were relegated at the end of the 2016 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by 2016 Superettan champions IK Sirius and runners-up AFC United. IK Sirius returned to Allsvenskan after 42 years' absence, having been relegated at the end of the 1974 season. This is IK Sirius' fourth season in the league. AFC United are participating in the league for the first time in the club's history; they are the third new club in the last four Allsvenskan seasons (following Falkenbergs FF in 2014 and Östersunds FK in 2016).

The final spot will be taken by the 2016 Allsvenskan play-offs winner; Halmstads BK, third-placed team in 2016 Superettan.

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Turf1	Stadium capacity1
AFC Eskilstuna	Eskilstuna	Tunavallen	Artificial	7,800
AIK	Stockholm	Friends Arena	Natural	50,000
BK Häcken	Gothenburg	Bravida Arena	Artificial	6,500
Djurgårdens IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	Artificial	30,000
GIF Sundsvall	Sundsvall	Norrporten Arena	Artificial	7,700
Halmstads BK	Halmstad	Örjans Vall	Natural	10,873
Hammarby IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	Artificial	30,000
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
Jönköpings Södra IF	Jönköping	Stadsparksvallen	Natural	5,500
Kalmar FF	Kalmar	Guldfågeln Arena	Natural	12,000
Malmö FF	Malmö	Swedbank Stadion	Natural	24,000
Örebro SK	Örebro	Behrn Arena	Artificial	12,300
Östersunds FK	Östersund	Jämtkraft Arena	Artificial	8,466

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

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Djurgårdens IF	Mark Dempsey	End of contract	6 November 2016	Pre-season	Özcan Melkemichel	1 December 2016
BK Häcken	Peter Gerhardsson	End of contract	11 November 2016	Pre-season	Mikael Stahre	14 November 2016
Hammarby IF	Nanne Bergstrand	Sacked	18 November 2016	Pre-season	Jakob Michelsen	30 November 2016
Malmö FF	Allan Kuhn	Sacked	19 November 2016	Pre-season	Magnus Pehrsson	1 December 2016
AFC Eskilstuna	Özcan Melkemichel	End of contract	1 December 2016	Pre-season	Pelle Olsson	December 2016
Eskilstuna	Pelle Olsson	Sacked	28 May 2017	16th	Michael Jolley	13 June 2017
Halmstad	Jan Jönsson	Promoted to Director of Football	8 June 2017	15th	Igor Krulj	8 June 2017
Kalmar	Peter Swärdh	Sacked	13 June 2017	14th	Nanne Bergstrand	13 June 2017
Göteborg	Jörgen Lennartsson	Sacked	18 July 2017	11th	Alf Westerberg	18 July 2017
Örebro	Alexander Axén	Mutual consent	28 August 2017	11th	Axel Kjäll	28 August 2017
Elfsborg	Magnus Haglund	Sacked	27 September 2017	10th	Nemanja Miljanović Janne Mian	27 September 2017

League table

2017 Allsvenskan table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Malmö FF  (C)	30	19	7	4	63	27	+36	64	Promotion to the Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	AIK	30	16	9	5	47	22	+25	57	Qualification to the Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
3	Djurgårdens IF	30	15	8	7	54	30	+24	53	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
4	BK Häcken	30	14	10	6	42	28	+14	52	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
5	Östersunds FK	30	13	11	6	48	32	+16	50
6	IFK Norrköping	30	14	6	10	45	40	+5	48
7	IK Sirius	30	11	7	12	46	51	−5	40
8	IF Elfsborg	30	10	9	11	53	59	−6	39
9	Hammarby IF	30	9	11	10	42	43	−1	38
10	IFK Göteborg	30	9	10	11	42	40	+2	37
11	Örebro SK	30	10	6	14	38	54	−16	36
12	Kalmar FF	30	9	5	16	30	49	−19	32
13	GIF Sundsvall	30	7	10	13	29	46	−17	31
14	Jönköpings Södra IF  (R)	30	6	12	12	31	46	−15	30	Relegation to the Qualification for the relegation play-offs
15	Halmstads BK  (R)	30	5	9	16	29	45	−16	24	Relegation to the Relegation to Superettan
16	AFC Eskilstuna  (R)	30	4	8	18	28	55	−27	20

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

Season statistics

Top scorers As of 5 November 2017 Rank Player Club Goals 1 Magnus Eriksson Djurgårdens IF 14 Karl Holmberg IFK Norrköping 3 Jo Inge Berget Malmö FF 10 Nahir Besara Örebro SK Issam Jebali IF Elfsborg 5 Mohamed Buya Turay AFC Eskilstuna 9 Tobias Hysén IFK Göteborg Paulinho BK Häcken Viktor Prodell IF Elfsborg Nicolás Stefanelli AIK

Top assists As of 5 November 2017 Rank Player Club Assists 1 Simon Lundevall IF Elfsborg 13 2 Niclas Eliasson IFK Norrköping 10 3 Ken Sema Östersunds FK 9 4 Nahir Besara Örebro SK 7 Anders Christiansen Malmö FF Issam Jebali IF Elfsborg Kim Källström Djurgårdens IF Kerim Mrabti Djurgårdens IF

Top goalkeepers

As of 5 November 2017
(Minimum of 10 games played)

Rank	Goalkeeper	Club	GP	GA	SV%	CS
1	Peter Abrahamsson	BK Häcken	26	25	80	12
2	Oscar Linnér	AIK	29	22	78	12
	Johan Dahlin	Malmö FF	11	10		6
4	Michael Langer	IFK Norrköping	15	18	77	5
5	Josh Wicks	IK Sirius	24	32	76	8
6	Andreas Isaksson	Djurgårdens IF	29	27	75	11
	Andreas Andersson	Östersunds FK	10	13		3
8	Aly Keita	Östersunds FK	21	19	74	9
	Lucas Hägg-Johansson	Kalmar FF	25	33		7
10	Alireza Haghighi	AFC Eskilstuna	17	27	73	2

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Gustav Engvall	Djurgårdens IF	Örebro SK	0–4	7 May 2017
Nahir Besara	Örebro SK	IFK Göteborg	4–2	16 July 2017
Filip Rogić	Örebro SK	IK Sirius	3–4	25 September 2017
Nicolás Stefanelli	AIK	IF Elfsborg	5–2	1 October 2017

External links

• Official website (Swedish)