2020 Ettan

15th season of Sweden's third-tier football league

Football league season

Ettan
Season	2020
Champions	Vasalunds IF (Norra) IFK Värnamo (Södra)
Promoted	Vasalunds IF IFK Värnamo Landskrona BoIS
Relegated	Karlslunds IF Eskilsminne IF Team TG Motala AIF FK Karlskrona IFK Berga Nyköpings BIS
Top goalscorer	Ashley Coffey (27 goals, Norra) Simon Adjei (25 goals, Södra)
Biggest home win	IFK Haninge 10–2 IFK Berga (14 November 2020)
Biggest away win	FK Karlskrona 0–6 Linköping City (11 July 2020)
Highest scoring	IFK Haninge 10–2 IFK Berga (14 November 2020)
← 2019 2021 →

The 2020 Ettan, part of the 2020 Swedish football season is the 15th season of Sweden's third-tier football league in its current format. The season started on 14 June 2020 and ended on 29 November 2020.

Teams

32 teams contest the league divided into two divisions, Norra and Södra. 22 returning from the 2019 season, three relegated from Superettan and seven promoted from Division 2. The champion of each division will qualify directly for promotion to Superettan, while the two runners-up compete in a play-off against the thirteenth and fourteenth teams from Superettan to decide who will play in the 2021 Superettan. The bottom three teams in each division will qualify directly for relegation to Division 2, while the two thirteenth-placed teams play against each other while the top two runners-up from Division 2 play against each other to decide who will play in 2021 Ettan.^[1]

Norra

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium capacity¹
Berga	Kalmar	Bergaviks IP
Brommapojkarna	Vällingby	Grimsta IP	5,000
Frej	Täby kyrkby	Vikingavallen	2,650
Gefle IF	Gävle	Gavlevallen	6,500
IFK Haninge	Haninge	Torvalla IP
Karlslunds IF	Örebro	Karlslund Arena	2,000
IF Karlstad	Karlstad	Tingvalla IP	10,000
Luleå	Luleå	Skogsvallen	2,500
Nyköpings BIS	Nyköping	Rosvalla IP	1,000
Sandvikens IF	Sandviken	Jernvallen	7,000
Sollentuna FK	Sollentuna	Sollentunavallen	4,500
Sylvia	Norrköping	Östgötaporten	17,000
Team TG	Umeå	Umeå Energi Arena	10,000
Täby	Täby	Tibblevallen
Vasalunds IF	Solna	Skytteholms IP	4,000
Örebro Syrianska	Örebro	Örnsro IP

Södra

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium capacity¹
Assyriska IK	Jönköping	Rosenlunds IP	1,500
Eskilsminne	Helsingborg	Harlyckans IP	3,500
Karlskrona	Karlskrona	Västra Mark IP	4,000
Landskrona	Landskrona	Landskrona IP	10,500
Lindome	Lindome	Lindevi IP	1,500
Linköping City	Linköping	Linköping Arena	8,500
Lund	Lund	Klostergårdens IP	8,560
Motala	Motala	Motala Idrottspark	8,500
Oskarshamns	Oskarshamn	Arena Oskarshamn	2,000
Qviding	Gothenburg	Valhalla IP	4,000
Skövde	Skövde	Södermalms IP	4,500
Torns	Stångby	Tornvallen	1,500
Trollhättan	Trollhättan	Edsborgs IP	5,100
Tvååkers	Tvååker	Övrevi IP	1,000
Utsiktens	Gothenburg	Ruddalens IP	5,000
Värnamo	Värnamo	Finnvedsvallen	5,000

League tables

Norra

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Vasalunds IF (C, P)	30	22	3	5	88	38	+50	69	Promotion to Superettan
2	IF Brommapojkarna (Q)	30	18	8	4	63	23	+40	62	Qualification to Promotion playoffs
3	Sollentuna FK	30	18	6	6	63	43	+20	60
4	IFK Haninge	30	18	5	7	77	47	+30	59
5	IF Sylvia	30	17	8	5	59	42	+17	59
6	Sandvikens IF	30	16	9	5	65	33	+32	57
7	Gefle IF	30	13	10	7	57	43	+14	49
8	IF Karlstad	30	10	7	13	53	53	0	37
9	IK Frej	30	11	4	15	49	54	−5	37
10	IFK Luleå	30	10	6	14	44	52	−8	36
11	Täby FK	30	10	5	15	44	53	−9	35
12	Örebro Syrianska	30	9	7	14	40	55	−15	34
13	Karlslunds IF (R)	30	9	5	16	41	47	−6	32	Qualification to Relegation Playoffs
14	Team TG (R)	30	7	2	21	37	86	−49	23	Relegation to Division 2
15	IFK Berga (R)	30	4	3	23	32	83	−51	15
16	Nyköpings BIS (R)	30	2	4	24	32	92	−60	10

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) Champions; (P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

Södra

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	IFK Värnamo (C, P)	30	20	3	7	60	26	+34	63	Promotion to Superettan
2	Landskrona BoIS (O, P)	30	17	8	5	54	30	+24	59	Qualification to Promotion playoffs
3	Utsiktens BK	30	14	11	5	59	36	+23	53
4	Lindome GIF	30	14	6	10	50	35	+15	48
5	Assyriska IK	30	14	4	12	52	45	+7	46
6	Skövde AIK	30	13	4	13	61	54	+7	43
7	FC Trollhättan	30	13	4	13	47	52	−5	43
8	Torns IF	30	10	12	8	40	33	+7	42
9	Linköping City	30	12	5	13	54	47	+7	41
10	Oskarshamns AIK	30	11	7	12	50	56	−6	40
11	Tvååkers IF	30	10	9	11	40	50	−10	39
12	Qviding FIF	30	11	6	13	31	46	−15	39
13	Lunds BK (O)	30	9	8	13	39	46	−7	35	Qualification to Relegation Playoffs
14	Eskilsminne IF (R)	30	9	8	13	42	55	−13	35	Relegation to Division 2
15	Motala AIF (R)	30	5	7	18	36	60	−24	22
16	FK Karlskrona (R)	30	4	6	20	36	80	−44	18

Results

Relegation play-offs

The 13th-placed teams of each division meet each other, and the best two runners-up from 2020 Division 2 meet each other, in two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis. The winners of each matchup qualify for the 2021 Division 1.

3 December 2020

7:00 pm

Västra Frölunda IF	2–0	Åtvidabergs FF
Furublad 36' Zhubi 61' (pen.)	Report

Ruddalens IP, Gothenburg

Referee: Dino Demo

6 December 2020

2:00 pm

Åtvidabergs FF	3–1	Västra Frölunda IF
Sandholm 18' Bragg 53', 78'	Report	Acheampong 7'

Kopparvallen, Åtvidaberg

Referee: Fredrik Alknäs

3–3 on aggregate. Västra Frölunda IF won on away goals but were not promoted, having fielded a suspended player. Åtvidaberg were promoted instead.

3 December 2020

5:00 pm

Lunds BK	1–1	Karlslunds IF
Wernersson 63'	Report	Mansiamina 67'

Klostergårdens IP, Lund

Referee: Fikret Buqa

6 December 2020

2:00 pm

Karlslunds IF	0–2	Lunds BK
	Report	Stojanovic Fredin 11' Båth Sågänger 75'

Karlslund Arena, Örebro

Referee: Adi Aganovic

Lunds BK won 3–1 on aggregate.

Season statistics

Top scorers - Norra

As of 29 November 2020^[2]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ashley Coffey	IFK Haninge	27
2	Mai Traore	Vasalunds IF	23
3	Ekin Bulut	Vasalunds IF	22
4	Isac Lidberg	Gefle IF	19
5	Marijan Cosic	IFK Haninge	18
6	Leo Englund	Sandvikens IF	17
7	Oskar Fallenius	IF Brommapojkarna	16
8	Jacob Hjelte	Gefle IF	14
8	Victor Kamf	Team TG	14

Top scorers - Södra

As of 28 November 2020^[3]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Simon Adjei	Assyriska IK	25
2	Emil Åberg	Eskilsminne IF	19
3	André Reinholdsson	Oskarshamns AIK	15
4	Michael Kargbo	IFK Värnamo	14
5	Amar Muhsin	Skövde AIK	13
6	Viktor Granath	Skövde AIK	12
	Paulo Marcelo Souza Alves	Utsiktens BK
	Linus Olsson	Landskrona BoIS
	Ajdin Zeljkovic	Lindome GIF
10	Robert Lipovac	Lindome GIF	11

References

^ "svenskfotboll.se". www.svenskfotboll.se.
^ "Spelarstatistik - Ettan Norra". Svensk Fotboll. Svensk Fotboll.
^ "Spelarstatistik - Ettan Södra". Svensk Fotboll. Svensk Fotboll.

Third-level football seasons in Sweden

Unofficial

1926–27
1927–28

Division 3

1928–29
1929–30
1930–31
1931–32
1932–33
1933–34
1934–35
1935–36
1936–37
1937–38
1938–39
1939–40
1940–41
1941–42
1942–43
1943–44
1944–45
1945–46
1946–47
1947–48
1948–49
1949–50
1950–51
1951–52
1952–53
1953–54
1954–55
1955–56
1956–57
1957–58
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986

Division 2

Division 1

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

Ettan

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024

2020 in Swedish football

« 2019

2021 »

League competitions

Men	Allsvenskan Superettan Division 1 Division 2
Women	Damallsvenskan Elitettan

Cup competitions

Men	Svenska Cupen (2019–20 (Final), 2020–21)
Women	Svenska Cupen (2019–20, 2020–21)

European competitions

Men	Champions League (2019–20, 2020–21) Europa League (2019–20, 2020–21)
Women	Champions League (2019–20, 2020–21)

Related to national teams

Club season articles
Allsvenskan	AIK BK Häcken Djurgårdens IF Falkenbergs FF Hammarby IF Helsingborgs IF IF Elfsborg IFK Göteborg IFK Norrköping IK Sirius Kalmar FF Malmö FF Mjällby AIF Örebro SK Östersunds FK Varbergs BoIS
Superettan	AFC Eskilstuna Akropolis Brage Dalkurd Degerfors GAIS GIF Sundsvall Halmstad Jönköpings Södra Ljungskile Norrby Örgryte Öster Trelleborg Umeå FC Västerås SK