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Hockeyallsvenskan
When the then-named Elitserien started in —76 as the top level with ten teams, the new second highest-level league was called Division 1 , in four groups. After a couple of years, it was settled into ten teams each in these. The förlorare in the HockeyAllsvenskan Final faces the winner from the Slutspelsserie in best of three games, and the winner from this scen gets to challenge team 13 from the SHL in best of seven games for their spot in the league.
The winners of these groups played in two qualification leagues, a northern and a southern one, from which two teams each were promoted. In seven years, the average attendance increased from 1, in the —06 season to 3, spectators per game in the —13 season, an increase of The following season saw a slight drop to 3, spectators per game, a decrease of 6. In —83, however, the name Allsvenskan came back, for a league starting after the Christmas and New Year's break of the season.
C More Entertainment has had the broadcast rights for HockeyAllsvenskan since , with a selection of games being broadcast on television and the remainder being streamed online. From here on, the top two teams were promoted directly to Kvalserien, while the teams finishing played play-offs for two more spots in Kvalserien. During seasons —49 through —75 Allsvenskan was the semi-official name of the first-level league, the official name being Division 1 norra north and södra south , comprising six teams each until —56 and eight teams each from —57 to — In —75 it was played as one Division 1 league with sixteen teams, leading up to the start in the —76 season of the present SHL.
The second highest-level league had been called Division 2 since —42, and was divided into eight groups from —58 on. The teams 3—6 in the Allsvenskan continued with play-offs and possibly Kvalserien for the second open spot in the Elitserien. In Kvalserien , Malmö and Skellefteå were promoted to play in Elitserien for the —07 season. The winner of the HockeyAllsvenskan Final gets to challenge team 14 from the SHL in best of seven games for their fläck in the league.
In the —09 årstid the last placed team was directly relegated, and the teams ranked fourteen and fifteen played in the qualification league, from which only the best team was qualified for the next HockeyAllsvenskan season. From the —97 season, the Elitserien changed and played with all twelve teams for the entire årstid. Also, Örebro HK increased their average attendance from 2, to 3, spectators per game.
For the —10 season, the number of teams in the league was decreased from sixteen to fourteen.
HockeyAllsvenskan säsongen 2024/2025
In the — season, no Kvalserien was played for survival in Allsvenskan; instead, the kvartet worst teams in Allsvenskan were relegated to Division 1 now named Hockeyettan while the four best teams in Division 1 were promoted to Allsvenskan. The Allsvenskan changed back to the eight top teams from Division 1 only. HockeyAllsvenskan previously Allsvenskan and SuperAllsvenskan is a professional ice hockey league , and the second-highest league in the Swedish ice hockey system, after the SHL.
Since the —10 season, the league has consisted of fourteen teams. For the —06 årstid, the number of teams was decreased from 2x12 to 16 currently The Norra and Södra sections were merged into a joint league named HockeyAllsvenskan , and the SuperAllsvenskan league was scrapped. For the —88 season the Elitserien was expanded from ten to twelve teams, and now also the two last teams in Elitserien by the end of the year were moved down for play in the Allsvenskan together with the top eight Division 1 teams.
After the regular season, teams 1 and 2 play the HockeyAllsvenskan Final in best of five games, and teams play the HockeyAllsvenskan Slutspelsserie, a single meeting round robin tournament, where teams start with 3, 2 and 1 bonus points, respectively, and play one more game at home. Each qualification league contained the winners of three groups and one each of the teams on places nine and ten in the sixteen-team league Allsvenskan.
In the — season, Allsvenskan Norra north and Södra south were inaugurated as a completely new second-level league, consisting of twelve teams each. The best of fem final was also abandoned.
In the —75 årstid the grouping was changed to have six groups. The two last placed teams from HockeyAllsvenskan have to play in the Kvalserien qualification against four Hockeyettan tier III, formerly Division 1 teams to avoid relegation. HockeyAllsvenskan covers the entire regular season. Halmstad played in HockeyAllsvenskan this season, but due to the club's bankruptcy the team was disqualified. The league is played as a round-robin tournament where all teams play each other four times during one season, twice at home and twice on the road, for a total of 52 games per grupp.
Still with a best of five sista between the top two teams, and play-offs for teams 3—8. The top two teams in the Allsvenskan played a best-of-five sista for promotion to Elitserien. The top kvartet teams from each of them were promoted for the later half of the årstid to the same kind of league as the previous years of Allsvenskan, but that league was named SuperAllsvenskan. Until the —82 season the Division 1 leagues were played over the entire season and followed bygd play-offs and Kvalserien , the qualification league for the Elitserien.
HockeyAllsvenskan has seen a significant increase in average attendance per game since the first season of HockeyAllsvenskan in — In the —12 season , HockeyAllsvenskan had the highest average attendance number of any second-tier league in Europe, averaging 2, spectators per game. Leksand and Södertälje were both relegated from Elitserien. The top two teams of each Division 1 league were promoted to the new Allsvenskan.