2016 Superettan

RelegatedMatches played240Goals 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 SiriusLongest unbeaten run11 matches
AFC UnitedLongest winless run15 matches
Ängelholms FFLongest losing run6 matches
Ljungskile SKHighest attendance11,690
GAIS 0–0 Örgryte IS (30 April 2016)Lowest attendance181
AFC United 5–0 IFK Värnamo (7 August 2016)Total attendance414,399Average attendance1,727

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.

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

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

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.

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Norrby IF won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Syrianska FC won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Positions by round

Season statistics

Top scorers

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

(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

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

External links

• Official website (in Swedish)