2016 Superettan

The 2016 Superettan, part of the 2016 Swedish football season, was the 16th 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.

Superettan
Season2016
ChampionsIK Sirius
Promoted
Relegated
Matches played240
Goals scored618 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorerShkodran Maholli (15 goals)
Biggest home winGAIS 7–0 Ängelholms FF (22 May 2016)
Biggest away winÄngelholms FF 0–4 IFK Värnamo (1 May 2016)
Highest scoringIK Sirius 5–3 Assyriska FF (24 July 2016)
Longest winning run7 matches[1]
IK Sirius
Longest unbeaten run11 matches
AFC United
Longest winless run15 matches
Ängelholms FF
Longest losing run6 matches
Ljungskile SK
Highest attendance11,690
GAIS 0–0 Örgryte IS (30 April 2016)
Lowest attendance181
AFC United 5–0 IFK Värnamo (7 August 2016)
Total attendance414,399
Average attendance1,727
← 2015
2017 →

Teams

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
Locations of the 2016 Superettan teams
Team Location Stadium Turf1 Stadium capacity1 2015 season
AFC United Stockholm Skytteholms IP Natural 2,000 8th in Superettan
Assyriska FF Södertälje Södertälje Fotbollsarena Artificial 6,400 4th in Superettan
Dalkurd FF Borlänge Domnarvsvallen Artificial 6,500 1st in Division 1 Norra
Degerfors IF Degerfors Stora Valla Natural 12,500 9th in Superettan
GAIS Gothenburg Gamla Ullevi Natural 18,416 11th in Superettan
Halmstads BK Halmstad Örjans Vall Natural 15,500 15th in Allsvenskan
IFK Värnamo Värnamo Finnvedsvallen Natural 5,000 10th in Superettan
IK Frej Täby Vikingavallen Artificial 2,750 14th in Superettan
IK Sirius Uppsala Studenternas IP Natural 6,300 3rd in Superettan
Ljungskile SK Ljungskile Uddevalla Arena Natural 8,000 6th in Superettan
Syrianska FC Södertälje Södertälje Fotbollsarena Artificial 6,400 7th in Superettan
Trelleborgs FF Trelleborg Vångavallen Natural 10,000 1st in Division 1 Södra
Varbergs BoIS Varberg Påskbergsvallen Natural 4,500 5th in Superettan
Åtvidabergs FF Åtvidaberg Kopparvallen Artificial 8,000 16th in Allsvenskan
Ängelholms FF Ängelholm Ängelholms IP Natural 5,000 12th in Superettan
Örgryte IS Gothenburg Gamla Ullevi Natural 18,416 2nd in Division 1 Södra
  • 1 According to each club information page at the Swedish Football Association website for Superettan.[2]

League table
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
Updated to match(es) played on 4 November 2016. Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)
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) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.

Playoffs

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 IF2–0Assyriska FF
  • Krasnici  70'
  • Savolainen  79'
 Report
Attendance: 1,341
Referee: Patrik Eriksson (Gävle)
Assyriska FF2–2Norrby IF
 Report Yarsuvat  11', 57'
Referee: Robert Daradic (Helsingborg)

Norrby IF won 4–2 on aggregate.

Vasalunds IF0–2Syrianska FC
Report Mete  25', 63'
Attendance: 957
Referee: Johan Krantz (Uppsala)
Syrianska FC3–1Vasalunds IF
 Report Kabran  81'
Attendance: 1,824
Referee: Magnus Lindgren (Gothenburg)

Syrianska FC won 5–1 on aggregate.

Positions by round
Team ╲ Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
IK Sirius422456332333321111111111111111
AFC United111221123222232333333333322222
Halmstads BK1263112211111113222222222233333
Dalkurd FF111067109667544444444444444444444
Varbergs BoIS551168101111119666556689109755555555
Åtvidabergs FF1316161195776477777785887888887666
Trelleborgs FF10151213131415129899988879565567668887
GAIS28101212139857888910997756676776778
Örgryte IS7128573448101011131111101010109101111101111111099
IK Frej16991011111315101313131010911111111111110101199991010
IFK Värnamo9147944554655566556678999101010111211
Degerfors IF151315161615121314161414121213131412121212121212131212121112
Syrianska FC141114151412141012151616151516161615141313131313121313131313
Assyriska FF3713141516161616111110111314141213131414141414141515151414
Ljungskile SK8458688913121212141412121314151516161616151414141515
Ängelholms FF634337101415141515161615151516161615151515161616161616
Promotion to Allsvenskan
Promotion play-offs
Relegation play-offs
Relegation to Division 1
Source: everysport.com (in Swedish)

Season statistics

Top goalkeepers

(Minimum of 10 games played)

Rank Goalkeeper Club
GP GA SV%[5] 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
PlayerForAgainstResultDate
Luka Mijaljević
Luther Singh		GAISÄngelholms FF7–022 May 2016
Mohamed Buya TurayAFC UnitedSyrianska FC1–329 May 2016
Mirkan AydınDalkurd FFÅtvidabergs FF5–04 June 2016
Dragan Kapčević4 goalsIK SiriusAssyriska FF5–324 July 2016
Salif Camara JönssonTrelleborgs FFÅtvidabergs FF5–215 August 2016
Shkodran MaholliÅtvidabergs FFÄngelholms FF4–15 November 2016

References
  1. "Superettan form table". soccerstats.com. soccerstats.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  2. "Superettan" (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  3. "Skytteliga". The Swedish Football Association. The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  4. "Passningsliga". The Swedish Football Association. The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  5. "Målvaktsliga". The Swedish Football Association. The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
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