2011 Superettan

The 2011 Superettan was part of the 2011 Swedish football season, and the twelfth season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football division in its current format. The season began on 9 April 2011 and ended on 22 October 2011.^[1]

Superettan

Season	2011
Champions	Åtvidaberg
Promoted	Åtvidaberg GIF Sundsvall
Relegated	Västerås SK Qviding FIF
Matches played	240
Goals scored	685 (2.85 per match)
Top goalscorer	Branimir Hrgota (18)
Biggest home win	GIF Sundsvall 6–0 Ängelholm (30 September 2011)[1]
Biggest away win	Qviding FIF 0–5 Assyriska (22 October 2011)[1]
Highest scoring	Västerås SK 3–5 Degerfors (11 September 2011)[1]
Highest attendance	12,801 Hammarby 2–1 Landskrona (18 April 2011)[1]
Lowest attendance	167 Qviding FIF 0–2 Brommapojkarna (12 September 2011)[1]
Average attendance	2,423[2]
← 2010 2012 →

The top two teams qualified directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third played a play-off against the fourteenth from Allsvenskan to decide who qualified to play in Allsvenskan 2012.

The bottom two teams qualified directly for relegation to Division 1, the thirteenth and the fourteenth played a play-off against the numbers two from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who qualified to play in Superettan 2012.

Teams

A total of sixteen teams contested the league, including eleven sides from the 2010 season, two relegated teams from 2010 Allsvenskan, two promoted teams from Division 1 and Qviding FIF who replaced Örgryte IS after they were automatically relegated to Division 1 before the start of the new season due to bankruptcy.

FC Trollhättan and Väsby United were relegated at the end of the 2010 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by Division 1 Norra champions Västerås SK and Division 1 Södra champions IFK Värnamo.

Jönköpings Södra IF and Östers IF both retained their Superettan spots after defeating their Division 1 opponents in a relegation/promotion playoff.

Stadia and locations

AFF

BP

IKB

VÄR

DIF

FFF

HIF

JÖN

LBoIS

LSK

GIF

QFIF

VSK

ÅFF

ÄFF

ÖIF

Location of the Superettan 2011 teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium capacity1
Assyriska FF	Södertälje	Södertälje Fotbollsarena	7,500
Degerfors IF	Degerfors	Stora Valla	12,500
Falkenbergs FF	Falkenberg	Falkenbergs IP	6,000
GIF Sundsvall	Sundsvall	Norrporten Arena	8,000
Hammarby IF	Stockholm	Söderstadion	15,600
IF Brommapojkarna	Stockholm	Grimsta IP	8,000
IFK Värnamo	Värnamo	Finnvedsvallen	5,000
IK Brage	Borlänge	Domnarvsvallen	5,500
Jönköpings Södra IF	Jönköping	Stadsparksvallen	5,200
Landskrona BoIS	Landskrona	Landskrona IP	12,000
Ljungskile SK	Ljungskile	Starke Arvid Arena	8,000
Qviding FIF	Gothenburg	Valhalla IP	4,000
Västerås SK	Västerås	Swedbank Park	7,000
Åtvidabergs FF	Åtvidaberg	Kopparvallen	8,000
Ängelholms FF	Ängelholm	Ängelholms IP	5,000
Östers IF	Växjö	Värendsvallen	13,000

• ¹ Correct as of end of 2010 Superettan season

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Assyriska FF	Pat Walker	Göran Marklund	Nike	Scania
IK Brage	Lennart Andersson	Niklas Forslund	Puma SE	SSAB
IF Brommapojkarna	Roberth Björknesjö	Pontus Segerström	adidas	Various
Degerfors IF	Patrik Werner	Tobias Solberg	adidas	Outokumpu
Falkenbergs FF	Thomas Askebrand	David Svensson	Nike	Various
Hammarby IF	Roger Sandberg	José Monteiro	Kappa	Pepsi
Jönköpings Södra IF	Hans Lindbom	Dennis Östlundh	Nike	Various
Landskrona BoIS	Henrik Larsson	Linus Malmqvist	Umbro	Various
Ljungskile SK	Bo Wålemark Örjan Glans	Johan Patriksson	Umbro	Various
Qviding FIF	Lars Ternström	Christian Lindström	Puma	ICA
GIF Sundsvall	Sören Åkeby	Jonas Wallerstedt	adidas	Norrporten
IFK Värnamo	Tony Johansson Glenn Ståhl	Tobias Englund	adidas	Various
Västerås SK	Erik Acar	Oscar Pehrsson	Nike	Various
Åtvidabergs FF	Andreas Thomsson	Henrik Gustavsson	Uhlsport	Sharp
Ängelholms FF	Christoffer Skoog Joakim Persson	Jakob Augustsson	adidas	Peab
Östers IF	Roar Hansen	Denis Velić	Umbro	ICA

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table
Brage	Pelle Johansson	Sacked	5 May 2011[3]		Lennart Andersson	5 May 2011[3]
Assyriska FF	Rikard Norling	Signed by Malmö FF	3 June 2011[4]		Göran Marklund (as caretaker)	3 June 2011[4]
Västerås SK	Kalle Granath	Sacked	24 June 2011[5]		Erik Acar	24 June 2011[5]
Assyriska FF	Göran Marklund	End of tenure as caretaker	2 August 2011[6]	7th	Pat Walker	2 August 2011[6]	7th
Hammarby	Roger Franzén	Sacked	18 August 2011[7]	10th	Roger Sandberg (as caretaker)	18 August 2011[7]	10th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Åtvidabergs FF (C, P)	30	18	3	9	58	31	+27	57	Promotion to Allsvenskan
2	GIF Sundsvall (P)	30	16	7	7	61	29	+32	55
3	Ängelholms FF	30	15	8	7	47	40	+7	53	Qualification to Promotion playoffs
4	Östers IF	30	14	8	8	40	28	+12	50
5	Degerfors IF	30	14	6	10	53	44	+9	48
6	IF Brommapojkarna	30	14	5	11	50	38	+12	47
7	Falkenbergs FF	30	14	3	13	50	43	+7	45
8	Ljungskile SK	30	12	6	12	48	39	+9	42
9	Assyriska FF	30	12	5	13	39	41	−2	41
10	Landskrona BoIS	30	11	8	11	36	39	−3	41
11	Hammarby IF	30	11	7	12	37	40	−3	40
12	Jönköpings Södra IF	30	12	4	14	47	53	−6	40
13	IFK Värnamo (O)	30	10	9	11	43	51	−8	39	Qualification to Relegation playoffs
14	IK Brage (O)	30	7	10	13	30	50	−20	31
15	Västerås SK (R)	30	7	7	16	39	66	−27	28	Relegation to Division 1
16	Qviding FIF (R)	30	1	8	21	17	63	−46	11

Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Relegation play-offs

29 October 2011

15:00

Sylvia	1–3	Brage
Nyman 54'	Report	Åkervall 10', 53' Jevtushenko 44'

Idrottsparken, Norrköping

Attendance: 1,180

Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson (Gothenburg)

5 November 2011

15:00

Brage	4–2	Sylvia
Åkervall 10' (pen.), 50', 83' Faltsetas 57'	Report	Roxström 75', 85'

Domnarvsvallen, Borlänge

Attendance: 2,319

Referee: Bojan Pandžić (Gothenburg)

Brage won 7–3 on aggregate.

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30 October 2011

16:00

Väsby United	0–2	IFK Värnamo
	Report	Andronic 24' Kozica 29'

Skytteholms IP, Solna

Attendance: 674

Referee: Magnus Ahlsén (Linköping)

6 November 2011

15:00

IFK Värnamo	1–0	Väsby United
Zlojutro 22'	Report

Finnvedsvallen, Värnamo

Attendance: 1,952

Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Lund)

IFK Värnamo won 3–0 on aggregate.

Results

Home \ Away	AFF	DIF	FFF	GIFS	HAM	BP	IFKV	IKB	JSIF	LAN	LSK	QFIF	VSK	ÅFF	ÄFF	ÖIF
Assyriska FF		1–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	3–2	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–0	2–2	0–0
Degerfors IF	2–3		1–3	0–2	3–2	1–0	2–0	5–0	6–1	2–0	2–3	3–0	4–1	1–2	1–3	3–3
Falkenbergs FF	4–0	4–0		2–4	1–1	1–3	4–0	0–2	1–2	5–1	2–0	3–0	3–4	0–2	1–0	0–4
GIF Sundsvall	1–2	3–0	4–0		3–3	0–0	2–2	5–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	4–0	2–2	0–1	6–0	2–1
Hammarby IF	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–3		1–2	1–0	1–0	5–2	2–1	1–3	2–1	3–1	2–0	0–1	2–1
IF Brommapojkarna	1–3	3–3	2–1	1–3	1–0		1–3	3–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	4–0	4–1	2–2	0–1	1–0
IFK Värnamo	3–2	0–0	0–2	3–0	1–0	2–1		3–1	2–4	3–1	0–2	0–0	2–3	3–3	1–1	0–1
IK Brage	3–0	1–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–2		1–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	1–4	0–0
Jönköpings Södra IF	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–1	0–2	4–2	2–3	3–0		0–2	2–1	1–0	5–1	1–0	3–0	0–3
Landskrona BoIS	2–3	0–0	0–2	1–2	3–0	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–0		0–0	3–0	2–1	3–2	0–0	1–0
Ljungskile SK	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	4–1	1–3	5–1	1–2	2–3	0–0		2–1	5–0	1–2	1–2	0–0
Qviding FIF	0–5	0–1	0–1	0–2	2–2	0–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–4		0–1	1–3	1–3	1–1
Västerås SK	0–2	3–5	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	4–2	3–3	0–1	2–2		0–2	1–2	1–1
Åtvidabergs FF	2–1	1–2	4–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	5–2	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–2	4–0	4–0		5–0	0–1
Ängelholms FF	2–1	3–0	3–2	1–1	0–1	3–2	1–1	1–1	2–4	1–2	1–1	0–0	3–1	2–0		3–0
Östers IF	4–2	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	2–3	3–2	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–2

Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals[8] 1 Branimir Hrgota Jönköpings Södra 18 2 Peter Samuelsson Degerfors 17 3 Magnus Eriksson Åtvidaberg 15 4 Pablo Piñones-Arce Brommapojkarna 14 Fredrik Holster GIF Sundsvall 14 6 Viktor Claesson IFK Värnamo 13 Pontus Engblom GIF Sundsvall 13 Stefan Rodevåg Falkenberg 13 9 Mattias Mete Västerås SK 12 Sebastian Andersson Ängelholm 12 Oscar Möller Åtvidaberg 12 12 Emil Forsberg GIF Sundsvall 11 13 3 players 10 16 3 players 9 19 5 players 8 24 5 players 7

Top assists Rank Player Club Assists[9] 1 Tobias Nilsson Falkenberg 12 2 Kristian Bergström Åtvidaberg 10 3 Haris Radetinac Åtvidaberg 9 Johan Patriksson Ljungskile 9 Richard Nilsson Ljungskile 9 6 Viktor Claesson IFK Värnamo 8 Jonathan Ring IFK Värnamo 8 Andreas Tegström Jönköpings Södra 8 9 Vyacheslav Jevtushenko Brage 7 Antonio Rojas Ängelholm 7 Jesper Arvidsson Åtvidaberg 7 Tommy Thelin Jönköpings Södra 7 13 5 players 6 18 9 players 5 27 10 players 4 37 35 players 3

Top goalkeepers

(Minimum of 10 games played)

Rank	Goalkeeper	Club	GP	GA	SV%[10]	ShO
1	Ivo Vazgeč	Landskrona BoIS Jönköping Södra	25	29	80	7
2	Tommy Naurin	GIF Sundsvall	28	25	78	14
3	Joakim Wulff	Öster	27	25	77	11
	Brian Edwards	Degerfors	28	41	77	9
5	Kristoffer Nordfeldt	Brommapojkarna	28	37	76	8
	Stojan Lukic	Falkenberg	30	43	76	12
7	Johannes Hopf	Hammarby	30	39	75	9
8	Henrik Gustavsson	Åtvidaberg	30	31	74	10
	Niklas Helgesson	Jönköpings Södra	17	32	74	3
10	Mirza Selimović	Landskrona BoIS	18	27	73	4
	Oscar Berglund	Assyriska	29	38	73	8
	Matt Pyzdrowski	Ängelholm	30	40	73	8
	Bill Halvorsen	IFK Värnamo	13	17	73	4
	Christian Caulker	Västerås SK	14	25	73	4

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Pär Cederqvist	Jönköpings Södra	Västerås SK	5–1	16 April 2011
Stefan Rodevåg	Falkenberg	Västerås SK	3–4	1 May 2011
Peter Samuelsson	Degerfors	Brage	5–0	25 June 2011
Pablo Piñones-Arce	Brommapojkarna	Ljungskile	3–1	27 June 2011
Branimir Hrgota	Jönköpings Södra	Brage	3–0	16 July 2011
Freddy Borg	Öster	Assyriska	4–2	7 August 2011
Peter Samuelsson	Degerfors	Hammarby	3–2	4 September 2011
Mattias Mete	Västerås SK	Degerfors	3–5	11 September 2011
Mikael Boman4	Falkenberg	Assyriska	4–0	11 September 2011
Jones Kusi-Asare	Assyriska	Qviding	5–0	22 October 2011

• ⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Attendance

Club	Home		Away		Total
	Average	Total	Average	Total	Average	Total
Hammarby IF	7,953	119,299	4,082	61,236	6,018	180,535
GIF Sundsvall	3,572	53,586	1,812	27,177	2,692	80,763
Landskrona BoIS	2,929	43,940	2,664	39,958	2,797	83,898
Degerfors IF	2,739	41,079	2,259	33,883	2,499	74,962
Åtvidabergs FF	2,640	39,594	2,906	43,594	2,773	83,188
Östers IF	2,637	39,561	2,626	39,388	2,632	78,949
IK Brage	2,408	36,126	2,159	32,387	2,284	68,513
Jönköpings Södra IF	2,347	35,205	2,474	37,104	2,410	72,309
Assyriska FF	2,319	34,784	2,176	32,639	2,247	67,423
Västerås SK FK	1,927	28,905	2,159	32,382	2,043	61,287
IFK Värnamo	1,926	28,890	2,364	35,464	2,145	64,354
Falkenbergs FF	1,382	20,736	2,295	34,418	1,838	55,154
Ängelholms FF	1,263	18,947	2,618	39,266	1,940	58,213
Ljungskile SK	1,175	17,629	2,322	34,828	1,749	52,457
IF Brommapojkarna	1,065	15,974	1,906	28,594	1,486	44,568
Qviding FIF	482	7,228	1,944	29,165	1,213	36,393
League	2,423	581,483

See also

Competitions

• 2011 Allsvenskan
• 2011 Svenska Cupen
• 2011 Supercupen

Transfers

• List of Swedish football transfers winter 2010–2011
• List of Swedish football transfers summer 2011
• List of Swedish football transfers winter 2011–2012