2012 Superettan

The 2012 Superettan, part of the 2012 Swedish football season, was the 13th season of Sweden's second-tier football league in its current format. The 2012 fixtures were released on 9 December 2011.^[1] The season began on 6 April 2012 and ended on 3 November 2012.

Superettan

Season	2012
Champions	Östers IF
Promoted	Östers IF IF Brommapojkarna Halmstads BK
Relegated	Trelleborgs FF Umeå FC
Matches played	240
Goals scored	722 (3.01 per match)
Top goalscorer	Pablo Piñones Arce (18)
Biggest home win	Degerfors IF 6–1 IFK Värnamo IFK Värnamo 5–0 Umeå FC[1]
Biggest away win	Umeå FC 0–4 Östers IF Umeå FC 0–4 Halmstads BK IFK Värnamo 1–5 Jönköpings Södra IF[1]
Highest scoring	IK Brage 4–4 Varbergs BoIS FC[1]
Highest attendance	12,173[1] Östers IF 1–1 IFK Värnamo
Lowest attendance	64[1] Ljungskile SK 1–1 Ängelholms FF
Average attendance	2,456[2]
← 2011 2013 →

Teams

A total of 16 teams contested the league, 12 returning from the 2011 season, two relegated from Allsvenskan and two promoted from Division 1. The top two teams qualified directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third had to play a play-off against the fourteenth from Allsvenskan to decide who will play in Allsvenskan 2013. The bottom two teams qualified directly for relegation to Division 1, the thirteenth and the fourteenth had to play a play-off against the numbers two from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who will play in Superettan 2013.

2011-champions Åtvidabergs FF and runner-up GIF Sundsvall were promoted to the Allsvenskan at the end of the 2011 season. They were replaced by Halmstads BK and Trelleborgs FF. Västerås SK and Qviding FIF were relegated at the end of the 2011 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by Division 1 Norra champions Umeå FC and Division 1 Södra champions Varbergs BoIS.

Stadia and locations

Assyriska FF

Brommapojkarna

Brage

IFK Värnamo

Degerfors

Falkenberg

Hammarby

Jönköpings Södra

Landskrona BoIS

Ljungskile

Umeå FC

Halmstads BK

Varbergs BoIS

Trelleborgs FF

Ängelholm

Öster

Location of the 2012 Superettan teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium capacity1
Assyriska FF	Södertälje	Södertälje Fotbollsarena	7,500
IK Brage	Borlänge	Domnarvsvallen	5,500
IF Brommapojkarna	Stockholm	Grimsta IP	8,000
Degerfors IF	Degerfors	Stora Valla	12,500
Falkenbergs FF	Falkenberg	Falkenbergs IP	6,000
Halmstads BK	Halmstad	Örjans Vall	15,500
Hammarby IF	Stockholm	Söderstadion	15,600
Jönköpings Södra IF	Jönköping	Stadsparksvallen	5,200
Landskrona BoIS	Landskrona	Landskrona IP	12,000
Ljungskile SK	Ljungskile	Starke Arvid Arena	8,000
Trelleborgs FF	Trelleborg	Vångavallen	10,000
Umeå FC	Umeå	T3 Arena	10,000
Varbergs BoIS	Varberg	Påskbergsvallen	4,000
IFK Värnamo	Värnamo	Finnvedsvallen	5,000
Ängelholms FF	Ängelholm	Ängelholms IP	5,000
Östers IF	Växjö	Värendsvallen (Until 22 August 2012)	13,000
		Myresjöhus Arena (From 3 September 2012)	12,000

• ¹ Correct as of end of 2012 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	Valentic Azrudin	Göran Marklund	Nike	Scania
IK Brage	Bo Wålemark Örjan Glans	Vyacheslav Jevtushenko	Puma	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
Halmstads BK	Jens Gustafsson	Johnny Lundberg	Puma	ICA
Hammarby IF	Gregg Berhalter	Andreas Dahl	Kappa	Pepsi
Jönköpings Södra IF	Mats Gren	Dennis Östlundh	Nike	Various
Landskrona BoIS	Henrik Larsson	Linus Malmqvist	Masita	Various
Ljungskile SK	Tor-Arne Fredheim	Aleksandar Kitić	Umbro	Various
Trelleborgs FF	Anders Grimberg	Kristian Haynes	Masita	Trelleborg
Umeå FC	Stuart Gibson Örjan Andersson	Erik Lundström	adidas	Norrporten
Varbergs BoIS	Halda Kabil	Fredrik Björk	Umbro	Various
IFK Värnamo	Jörgen Petersson	Tobias Englund	adidas	Various
Ängelholms FF	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
IFK Värnamo	Tony Johansson	End of shared leadership	7 October 2011[3]	Pre-season
Jönköpings Södra IF	Hans Lindbom	Mutual consent	22 October 2011[4]	Pre-season	Mats Gren	2 December 2011[5]	Pre-season
Ljungskile SK	Bo Wålemark	Resigned	23 October 2011[6]	Pre-season	Tor-Arne Fredheim	12 December 2011[7]	Pre-season
Trelleborgs FF	Tom Prahl	Resigned	26 October 2011[8]	Pre-season	Alf Westerberg	7 November 2011[9]	Pre-season
Assyriska FF	Pat Walker	Sacked	11 November 2011[10]	Pre-season	Valentic Azrudin	15 November 2011[11]	Pre-season
Ängelholms FF	Christoffer Skoog	End of shared leadership	15 November 2011[12]	Pre-season
IK Brage	Jonas Björkgren	End of tenure as caretaker	17 November 2011[13]	Pre-season	Bo Wålemark	17 November 2011[13]	Pre-season
Hammarby IF	Roger Sandberg	End of tenure as caretaker	12 December 2011[14]	Pre-season	Gregg Berhalter	12 December 2011[14]	Pre-season
Trelleborgs FF	Alf Westerberg	Resigned	15 June 2012[15]	14th	Anders Grimberg (as caretaker)	15 June 2012[15]	14th
IFK Värnamo	Glenn Ståhl	Mutual consent	12 July 2012[16]	16th	Jörgen Petersson	12 July 2012[17]	16th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Östers IF (C, P)	30	20	6	4	57	28	+29	66	Promotion to Allsvenskan
2	IF Brommapojkarna (P)	30	20	1	9	61	40	+21	61
3	Halmstads BK (O, P)	30	16	8	6	61	33	+28	56	Qualification to Promotion playoffs
4	Hammarby IF	30	13	10	7	40	33	+7	49
5	Ljungskile SK	30	11	9	10	36	36	0	42
6	Landskrona BoIS	30	12	5	13	35	43	−8	41
7	Jönköpings Södra IF	30	10	10	10	52	47	+5	40
8	Assyriska FF	30	11	6	13	44	49	−5	39
9	Ängelholms FF	30	10	9	11	40	46	−6	39
10	IK Brage	30	10	9	11	35	45	−10	39
11	Varbergs BoIS	30	8	13	9	49	52	−3	37
12	Degerfors IF	30	9	8	13	46	53	−7	35
13	Falkenbergs FF (O)	30	8	10	12	45	47	−2	34	Qualification to Relegation playoffs
14	IFK Värnamo (O)	30	8	6	16	47	54	−7	30
15	Trelleborgs FF (R)	30	8	5	17	40	55	−15	29	Relegation to Division 1
16	Umeå FC (R)	30	6	5	19	34	61	−27	23

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

7 November 2012

19:00

BK Forward	0 – 0	Falkenbergs FF
	Report

Behrn Arena, Örebro

Attendance: 2,661

Referee: Dragan Banjac (Haninge)

11 November 2012

14:00

Falkenbergs FF	2 – 1	BK Forward
Krizanović 9' Svahn 69'	Report	14' (o.g.)

Falkenbergs IP, Falkenberg

Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson (Helsingborg)

Falkenbergs FF won 2–1 on aggregate.

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7 November 2012

19:00

Lunds BK	0 – 2	IFK Värnamo
	Report	Ferizi 45' Abdulrahman 84'

Klostergårdens IP, Lund

Attendance: 1,888

Referee: Magnus Ahlsén (Linköping)

11 November 2012

15:00

IFK Värnamo	2 – 2	Lunds BK
Abdulrahman 15' Zlojutro 40'	Report	Jönsson 77' Björkén 85'

Finnvedsvallen, Värnamo

Attendance: 1,778

Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Köping)

IFK Värnamo won 4–2 on aggregate.

Positions by round

Note: Some matches were played out of phase with the corresponding round, positions were corrected in hindsight.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Östers IF	5	5	4	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
IF Brommapojkarna	3	4	6	5	5	3	6	3	5	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2
Halmstads BK	12	7	7	6	7	7	7	4	2	4	4	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3
Hammarby IF	4	3	3	1	1	2	2	2	3	2	2	4	4	5	5	6	6	6	7	7	5	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4
Ljungskile SK	14	15	14	12	10	9	10	10	8	10	7	6	5	7	7	5	5	5	6	4	7	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5
Landskrona BoIS	11	13	10	10	8	10	9	6	7	6	5	5	7	6	8	7	7	7	4	5	6	7	8	8	10	7	9	8	6	6
Jönköpings Södra IF	2	1	2	2	3	4	4	7	9	12	9	12	8	8	6	8	9	10	11	9	9	10	9	10	11	10	8	7	9	7
Assyriska FF	1	2	1	4	4	6	3	5	6	8	11	9	11	11	11	12	13	12	12	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	11	12	11	8
Ängelholms FF	7	6	9	7	6	5	5	8	4	5	8	7	6	4	4	3	4	4	5	6	4	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	9
IK Brage	16	9	5	9	11	11	11	12	11	9	6	10	10	10	10	10	8	9	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	8	7	10	8	10
Varbergs BoIS	6	8	11	8	9	8	8	9	10	7	10	8	9	9	9	11	11	11	9	10	10	11	10	9	9	11	12	9	10	11
Degerfors IF	15	16	15	16	15	15	12	13	12	13	13	13	14	13	14	14	14	14	13	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12
Falkenbergs FF	8	12	12	13	13	12	13	11	13	11	12	11	12	12	12	9	10	8	10	11	11	9	11	11	8	9	10	11	12	13
IFK Värnamo	13	14	16	15	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	15	16	15	16	16	15	15	16	15	16	16	16	15	15	14
Trelleborgs FF	9	10	13	14	12	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	14	13	13	12	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15
Umeå FC	10	11	8	11	14	14	15	15	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	16	15	16	15	15	16	16	15	16	15	15	15	16	16	16

	Promotion to Allsvenskan
	Promotion play-offs
	Relegation play-offs
	Relegation to Division 1

Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)

Results

Home \ Away	AFF	IKB	BP	DIF	FFF	HBK	HAM	JSIF	LAN	LSK	TFF	UFC	VAR	IFKV	ÄFF	ÖIF
Assyriska FF		3–1	0–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	4–1	2–1	2–0	2–5	1–1	0–0	3–0	1–4	1–0
IK Brage	2–1		1–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	4–4	1–1	1–1	0–1
IF Brommapojkarna	4–2	4–1		1–0	1–0	0–3	2–1	3–2	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–1	5–1	2–4	4–0	3–1
Degerfors IF	4–2	3–2	0–2		2–3	2–2	1–3	1–3	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	3–1	6–1	1–1	2–2
Falkenbergs FF	1–1	1–2	3–1	4–1		3–1	1–3	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–2	2–2	1–1
Halmstads BK	3–1	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–1		2–0	3–2	1–1	1–0	3–1	3–0	3–1	2–3	0–0	3–2
Hammarby IF	0–2	3–1	3–1	4–2	2–2	1–0		2–2	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–2
Jönköpings Södra IF	2–0	0–1	3–2	2–2	2–1	1–1	1–1		2–0	4–1	2–0	3–3	1–1	1–0	2–2	3–3
Landskrona BoIS	3–2	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	3–3	4–1	3–2		2–1	0–3	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–2
Ljungskile SK	3–1	1–1	3–1	3–3	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–0		1–0	2–0	2–2	3–2	1–1	0–1
Trelleborgs FF	3–2	1–1	0–4	0–2	3–1	1–2	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–0		4–2	2–2	1–2	1–1	2–3
Umeå FC	1–3	1–2	1–3	3–0	2–1	0–4	1–2	1–0	3–1	0–1	5–1		1–2	1–1	1–3	0–4
Varbergs BoIS	1–2	2–2	2–2	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	4–1	3–0	3–1	2–2	2–1		1–1	1–3	2–4
IFK Värnamo	1–2	3–0	0–1	2–3	3–4	2–5	0–1	1–5	1–1	2–2	3–0	5–0	0–1		4–0	1–2
Ängelholms FF	3–1	0–1	0–2	2–0	1–3	0–2	1–1	2–2	2–1	3–1	1–4	1–0	3–2	1–0		0–2
Östers IF	1–0	1–0	4–1	2–0	4–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	5–1	1–0	1–1	2–1

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

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[18]
1	Pablo Piñones Arce	IF Brommapojkarna	18
2	Robin Simović	Ängelholms FF	17
3	Guðjón Baldvinsson	Halmstads BK	16
	Freddy Söderberg	Östers IF
5	Nabil Bahoui	IF Brommapojkarna	15
6	Patrik Larsson	Varbergs BoIS FC	14
7	Mikael Boman	Halmstads BK	13
8	Gabriel Altemark Vanneryr	Varbergs BoIS FC	12
	Fuad Hyseni	Assyriska FF
	Dragan Kapčević	IK Brage

Top assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists[19]
1	Denis Velić	Östers IF	11
2	Nahir Besara	Assyriska FF	9
3	Gabriel Altemark Vanneryr	Varbergs BoIS FC	8
	Zoran Jovanović	Trelleborgs FF
	Stefan Karlsson	Östers IF
	Ryan Miller	Halmstads BK
	Pablo Piñones Arce	IF Brommapojkarna
	Kristinn Steindórsson	Halmstads BK
9	Patrik Bojent	Östers IF	7
	Amadaiya Rennie	Degerfors IF
	Jonas Lindberg	Varbergs BoIS
	Björn Westerblad	Ängelholms FF

Top goalkeepers

(Minimum of 10 games played)

Rank	Goalkeeper	Club	GP	GA	SV%[20]	ShO
1	Zlatan Azinović	Trelleborgs FF	12	19	78	1
2	Johannes Hopf	Hammarby IF	30	33	77	9
2	Karl-Johan Johnsson	Halmstads BK	30	33	77	11
2	Alexander Nadj	Östers IF	30	28	77	11
5	Brian Edwards	Degerfors IF	28	44	76	5
5	Marcus Sandberg	Ljungskile SK	26	30	76	8
7	Ivo Vazgeč	Landskrona BoIS	28	39	74	6
7	Fredrik Persson	Trelleborgs FF	11	15	74	2
7	Hampus Nilsson	Ängelholms FF	14	22	74	1
7	Stojan Lukić	Falkenbergs FF	30	47	74	2
7	Niklas Helgesson	Jönköpings Södra	24	32	74	4

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Daryl Smylie	Jönköpings Södra	Ljungskile SK	4–1	16 April 2012
Kenny Pavey	Ljungskile SK	Assyriska FF	3–1	27 May 2012
Gabriel Altemark Vanneryr	Varbergs BoIS	Jönköpings Södra	4–1	2 June 2012
Guðjón Baldvinsson	Halmstads BK	Brage	2–5	16 June 2012
Pablo Piñones Arce	IF Brommapojkarna	Varbergs BoIS	5–1	20 June 2012
Robin Simović	Ängelholms FF	Varbergs BoIS	1–3	21 July 2012
Pablo Piñones Arce	IF Brommapojkarna	Umeå FC	1–3	3 September 2012
Victor Sköld	Falkenbergs FF	Degerfors IF	2–3	3 September 2012
Robin Simović	Ängelholms FF	Assyriska FF	1–4	23 September 2012
Abdul Rahman Khalili	IFK Värnamo	Falkenbergs FF	3–4	27 September 2012
Freddy Söderberg	Östers IF	Umeå FC	5–1	1 October 2012
Nabil Bahoui	IF Brommapojkarna	Treleborgs FF	0-4	2 October 2012
Mattias Adelstam	Hammarby IF	Degerfors IF	4–2	8 October 2012

• ⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Attendance

Club	Home		Away		Total
	Average	Total	Average	Total	Average	Total
Hammarby IF	8,463	126,947	4,113	61,688	6,288	188,635
Östers IF	4,733	71,002	2,680	40,197	3,707	111,199
Halmstads BK	3,375	50,621	2,801	42,012	3,088	92,633
Varbergs BoIS FC	2,470	37,055	2,624	39,355	2,547	76,410
Landskrona BoIS	2,459	36,892	2,119	31,779	2,289	68,671
Jönköpings Södra IF	2,421	36,311	2,371	35,560	2,396	71,871
Degerfors IF	2,054	30,806	2,193	32,898	2,123	63,704
Umeå FC	2,046	30,687	2,018	30,277	2,032	60,964
IK Brage	1,967	29,502	2,231	33,458	2,009	62,960
Assyriska FF	1,924	28,856	2,272	34,085	2,098	62,941
Falkenbergs FF	1,577	23,658	2,632	39,479	2,105	63,137
IFK Värnamo	1,523	22,846	2,632	39,483	2,078	62,329
Trelleborgs FF	1,364	20,460	2,039	30,586	1,702	51,046
IF Brommapojkarna	1,239	18,580	2,239	33,583	1,739	52,163
Ängelholms FF	905	13,569	2,300	34,507	1,603	48,076
Ljungskile SK	778	11,665	2,034	30,510	1,406	42,175
League					2,456	589,457

See also

Competitions

• 2012 Allsvenskan
• 2012 Division 1
• 2012 Supercupen

Team seasons

• 2012 Halmstads BK season

Transfers

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