2013 Superettan

The 2013 Superettan, part of the 2013 Swedish football season, was the 14th season of Sweden's second-tier football league in its current format. The 2013 fixtures were released on 18 December 2012.^[3] The season started on 6 April 2013 and ended on 2 November 2013.^[4]

Superettan

Season	2013
Champions	Falkenbergs FF
Promoted	Falkenbergs FF Örebro SK
Relegated	Örgryte IS IK Brage
Matches played	240
Goals scored	663 (2.76 per match)
Top goalscorer	Victor Sköld (20 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Otto Martler Peter Abrahamsson (82 save %)
Biggest home win	Östersunds FK 5–0 Jönköpings Södra IF (4 May 2013) Landskrona BoIS 5–0 Varbergs BoIS (22 July 2013) Ängelholms FF 6–1 Assyriska FF (29 July 2013) Örebro SK 6–1 GAIS (27 October 2013)[1]
Biggest away win	IFK Värnamo 0–5 Örebro SK (2 August 2013)[1]
Highest scoring	GIF Sundsvall 4–4 GAIS (20 July 2013)[1]
Highest attendance	29,175[1] Hammarby IF 0–0 Örgryte IS (20 July 2013)
Lowest attendance	179[1] Ängelholms FF 2–2 Degerfors IF (18 May 2013)
Total attendance	709,712[2]
Average attendance	2,957[2]
← 2012 2014 →

Falkenbergs FF won Superettan this season, their first title and were thus promoted to Allsvenskan for the first time along with runners-up Örebro SK who returned to the top flight after one years absence. GIF Sundsvall advanced to the promotion play-offs but failed to win against Halmstads BK.

A total of 16 teams contested the league; 11 returning from the 2012 season, three that were relegated from Allsvenskan and three that were promoted from Division 1.

Teams

A total of 16 teams contested the league, 11 returning from the 2012 season, three relegated from the 2012 Allsvenskan and two promoted from the 2012 Division 1. The top two teams qualified directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third had to play a play-off against the fourteenth team from Allsvenskan to decide who would play in Allsvenskan 2014. 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 teams from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who would play in Superettan 2014.

2012-champions Östers IF and runner-up IF Brommapojkarna were promoted to Allsvenskan at the end of the 2012 season. They were replaced by Örebro SK and GAIS, furthermore third placed Halmstads BK replaced GIF Sundsvall as an Allsvenskan team after winning the deciding play-offs. Trelleborgs FF and Umeå FC were relegated at the end of the 2012 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by Division 1 Norra champions Östersunds FK and Division 1 Södra champions Örgryte IS.

Stadia and locations

Assyriska FF

Degerfors IF

GAIS

Hammarby IF

Ljungskile SK

Örgryte IS

Örebro SK

Ängelholms FF

Landskrona BoIS

Jönköpings Södra

Varbergs BoIS

IK Brage

Östersunds FK

IFK Värnamo

Falkenbergs FF

GIF Sundsvall

Location of the 2013 Superettan teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Turf1	Stadium capacity1
Assyriska FF	Södertälje	Södertälje Fotbollsarena	Artificial	7,500
Degerfors IF	Degerfors	Stora Valla	Natural	12,500
Falkenbergs FF	Falkenberg	Falkenbergs IP	Natural	6,000
GAIS	Gothenburg	Gamla Ullevi	Natural	18,416
GIF Sundsvall	Sundsvall	Norrporten Arena	Artificial	7,700
Hammarby IF	Stockholm	Söderstadion (Until 23 June 2013)	Natural	15,600
		Tele2 Arena (From 20 July 2013)	Artificial	30,000
IFK Värnamo	Värnamo	Finnvedsvallen	Natural	5,000
IK Brage	Borlänge	Domnarvsvallen	Artificial	6,500
Jönköpings Södra IF	Jönköping	Stadsparksvallen	Natural	5,200
Landskrona BoIS	Landskrona	Landskrona IP	Natural	12,000
Ljungskile SK	Ljungskile	Skarsjövallen	Natural	8,000
Varbergs BoIS	Varberg	Påskbergsvallen	Natural	4,000
Ängelholms FF	Ängelholm	Ängelholms IP	Natural	5,000
Örebro SK	Örebro	Behrn Arena	Artificial	13,129
Örgryte IS	Gothenburg	Gamla Ullevi	Natural	18,416
Östersunds FK	Östersund	Jämtkraft Arena	Artificial	5,000

• 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 coach1	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Assyriska FF	Valentic Azrudin	Stefan Batan	Nike	Scania
Degerfors IF	Patrik Werner	Tobias Solberg	adidas	Outokumpu
Falkenbergs FF	Hans Eklund	David Svensson	Nike	Gekås Ullared
GAIS	Thomas Askebrand	Kenneth Gustafsson	Puma	Various
GIF Sundsvall	Joel Cedergren Roger Franzén	Stefan Ålander	adidas	Various
Hammarby IF	Thomas Dennerby	Kennedy Bakircioglü	Kappa	Herbalife
IFK Värnamo	Sören Åkeby	Joel Löw	adidas	Various
IK Brage	Zvezdan Milošević	Andi Toompuu	Puma	SSAB
Jönköpings Södra IF	Mats Gren	Tommy Thelin	Nike	Various
Landskrona BoIS	Jörgen Pettersson	Linus Malmqvist	Masita	Various
Ljungskile SK	Tor-Arne Fredheim	Patrick Hopkins	Umbro	Various
Varbergs BoIS	Halda Kabil	Fredrik Björk	Umbro	Various
Ängelholms FF	Joakim Persson	Björn Westerblad	adidas	PEAB
Örebro SK	Per-Ola Ljung	Magnus Wikström	Puma	Malmbergs
Örgryte IS	Marcus Lantz	Jakob Lindström	Uhlsport	Various
Östersunds FK	Graham Potter	Petter Augustsson	adidas	PEAB

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Falkenbergs FF	Thomas Askebrand	Signed by GAIS	2 October 2012[5]	Pre-season	Hans Eklund	26 November 2012[6]
GAIS	Benjamin Westman	End of tenure as caretaker	3 October 2012[7]	Pre-season	Thomas Askebrand	2 October 2012[8]
Landskrona BoIS	Henrik Larsson	End of contract	8 November 2012[9]	Pre-season	Jörgen Pettersson	16 November 2012[10]
GIF Sundsvall	Sören Åkeby	Mutual agreement	19 November 2012[11]	Pre-season	Joel Cedergren Roger Franzén	14 December 2012[12]
IFK Värnamo	Jörgen Petersson	Resigned	3 December 2012[13]	Pre-season	Sören Åkeby	12 December 2012[14]
IK Brage	Bo Wålemark Örjan Glans	Resigned	7 January 2013[15]	Pre-season	Conny Karlsson	16 January 2013[16]
Hammarby IF	Gregg Berhalter	Sacked	24 July 2013[17]	8th	Thomas Dennerby	24 July 2013[17]

Suspended matches

Hammarby IF vs. GAIS

The match on 19 September 2013 at Tele2 Arena between Hammarby IF and GAIS was suspended after 57 minutes of play, following confrontations among the spectators. About 40 people made their way directly above the part of the stands where the GAIS supporters were and threw objects directed at them. Confrontations between the spectators then occurred at the southwest part of the arena, with no injuries requiring hospital care reported. About 20 to 25 minutes later, the match was resumed. GAIS filed an appeal for a 3–0 fixed result in their favour, but the appeal was rejected by the Swedish Football Association (SvFF). On 10 October 2013 the SvFF announced Hammarby IF was given a 250,000 SEK fine and that no attendance will be allowed for two upcoming home games.^[18]

Örgryte IS vs. Ljungskile SK

The match on 28 October 2013 at Gamla Ullevi between Örgryte IS and Ljungskile SK had to be postponed to 29 October because of dangerous weather conditions.^[19]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Falkenbergs FF (C, P)	30	19	5	6	63	31	+32	62	Promotion to Allsvenskan
2	Örebro SK (P)	30	17	10	3	52	21	+31	61
3	GIF Sundsvall	30	16	10	4	54	35	+19	58	Qualification to Promotion playoffs
4	Degerfors IF	30	14	10	6	52	41	+11	52
5	Hammarby IF	30	13	8	9	34	28	+6	47
6	Ängelholms FF	30	11	10	9	55	47	+8	43
7	GAIS	30	12	7	11	45	47	−2	43
8	Assyriska FF	30	12	6	12	42	44	−2	42
9	Ljungskile SK	30	12	3	15	34	31	+3	39
10	Östersunds FK	30	10	9	11	39	38	+1	39
11	Jönköpings Södra IF	30	11	5	14	39	44	−5	38
12	Landskrona BoIS	30	9	5	16	40	48	−8	32
13	Varbergs BoIS (O)	30	9	5	16	47	65	−18	32	Qualification to Relegation playoffs
14	IFK Värnamo (O)	30	7	10	13	30	51	−21	31
15	Örgryte IS (R)	30	5	13	12	23	40	−17	28	Relegation to Division 1
16	IK Brage (R)	30	2	6	22	21	59	−38	12

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

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6 November 2013

19:00 UTC+1

Dalkurd FF	1 – 0	IFK Värnamo
Sulaka 91'	Report

Domnarvsvallen, Borlänge

Attendance: 1,420

Referee: Lars Olsson (Umeå)

9 November 2013

15:00 UTC+1

IFK Värnamo	5 – 1	Dalkurd FF
Kamara 6', 8' Kozica 38', 71', 79'	Report	Dauda Omeje 39'

Finnvedsvallen, Värnamo

Attendance: 1,480

Referee: Jim Petersson (Motala)

IFK Värnamo won 5–2 on aggregate.

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6 November 2013

19:00 UTC+1

IK Oddevold	0 – 1	Varbergs BoIS
	Report	Koroma 4'

Rimnersvallen, Uddevalla

Attendance: 1,479

Referee: Robert Daradic (Helsingborg)

9 November 2013

15:00 UTC+1

Varbergs BoIS	2 – 1	IK Oddevold
Söderström 54' Altemark Vanneryr 90'	Report	Selmani 15' (pen.)

Påskbergsvallen, Varberg

Attendance: 2,016

Referee: Magnus Ahlsén (Linköping)

Varbergs BoIS won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Positions by round

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
Falkenbergs FF	3	3	1	1	1	3	1	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Örebro SK	5	1	3	3	2	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
GIF Sundsvall	16	16	10	13	7	5	6	4	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Degerfors IF	11	14	11	14	9	10	10	9	10	8	7	8	7	6	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Hammarby IF	9	9	5	8	5	4	4	5	6	9	9	6	6	7	8	6	7	6	7	8	7	5	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Ängelholms FF	14	13	14	7	12	14	14	14	14	12	10	11	11	12	10	9	8	8	8	9	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	8	6	6
GAIS	12	8	8	12	8	9	7	7	7	5	4	4	5	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	6	5	6	6	8	6	6	7	7
Assyriska FF	7	4	2	2	3	1	2	3	5	6	5	5	4	5	6	7	6	7	6	6	8	9	11	8	8	6	7	7	8	8
Ljungskile SK	10	11	15	11	6	6	5	6	4	4	6	7	8	8	9	10	9	9	9	7	6	7	6	7	7	7	8	9	9	9
Östersunds FK	8	10	9	4	4	7	8	10	12	13	14	12	10	10	11	13	13	12	13	11	11	11	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	10
Jönköpings Södra IF	1	2	4	5	11	12	13	12	11	11	13	10	12	13	12	14	14	14	12	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11
Landskrona BoIS	6	6	6	9	13	8	12	11	9	7	8	9	9	9	7	8	11	11	10	10	10	10	8	10	11	11	11	12	12	12
Varbergs BoIS	2	7	12	15	16	13	9	8	8	10	11	13	13	11	14	12	10	10	11	12	12	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	13
IFK Värnamo	13	12	16	16	15	16	16	16	16	15	15	14	14	14	13	11	12	13	14	14	14	14	15	14	13	13	13	13	13	14
Örgryte IS	15	15	13	6	10	11	11	13	13	14	12	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
IK Brage	4	5	7	10	14	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

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

Source: everysport.com (in Swedish)

Results

Home \ Away	AFF	DIF	FFF	GAI	GIFS	HAM	IFKV	IKB	JSIF	LAN	LSK	VAR	ÄFF	ÖSK	ÖIS	ÖFK
Assyriska FF		1–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	3–0	3–2	1–0	0–3	1–0	3–0	0–4	1–1	3–0	1–0
Degerfors IF	2–1		2–2	4–2	1–2	0–1	2–2	4–2	2–1	2–0	3–1	3–2	4–1	1–1	2–1	1–0
Falkenbergs FF	2–0	2–4		4–1	1–2	1–0	4–0	2–1	3–0	4–0	2–1	2–1	4–2	1–1	2–0	2–0
GAIS	1–0	3–1	3–1		3–3	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–3
GIF Sundsvall	2–4	0–0	1–0	4–4		1–0	2–2	4–0	0–3	3–2	3–1	4–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	3–0
Hammarby IF	1–0	0–1	0–3	3–1	1–1		1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–1
IFK Värnamo	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–2		2–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	3–3	2–5	0–5	0–0	0–1
IK Brage	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–4	1–2	0–2	1–1		1–2	2–1	1–2	2–4	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0
Jönköpings Södra IF	1–0	4–1	2–4	0–1	1–4	1–2	0–0	4–0		3–1	0–1	2–1	2–4	2–0	0–0	1–1
Landskrona BoIS	0–4	1–0	0–0	2–3	0–0	4–1	2–1	4–1	2–0		0–2	5–0	0–0	1–2	2–4	4–0
Ljungskile SK	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–2	4–1	1–0	3–0		2–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–3
Varbergs BoIS	4–1	2–2	0–4	3–1	0–4	0–1	1–2	4–1	1–1	2–1	0–4		2–1	1–2	5–1	0–3
Ängelholms FF	6–1	2–2	0–4	1–1	0–2	3–2	1–2	0–2	2–2	2–1	2–0	4–2		1–1	4–1	0–0
Örebro SK	2–1	2–0	1–1	6–1	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–1	3–0	1–0	3–1	1–0		2–0	2–0
Örgryte IS	3–0	2–2	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–3	1–1	1–0	1–3	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1		2–1
Östersunds FK	1–1	1–2	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	5–0	2–2	2–1	1–3	2–2	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[20] 1 Victor Sköld Falkenbergs FF 20 2 Johan Bertilsson Degerfors IF 16 Gabriel Altemark Vanneryr Varbergs BoIS 4 Johan Eklund GIF Sundsvall 15 5 Admir Aganović Assyriska FF 14 6 Junes Barny Ängelholms FF 12 Shpëtim Hasani Örebro SK 8 Tommy Thelin Jönköpings Södra IF 11 9 Karl Holmberg Örebro SK 10 Alexander Andersson Degerfors IF Joel Johansson GAIS Andreas Drugge GAIS

Top assists Rank Player Club Assists[21] 1 Niclas Eliasson Falkenbergs FF 11 2 Christer Youssef Assyriska FF 10 3 Victor Sköld Falkenbergs FF 9 4 Amadaiya Rennie Degerfors IF 8 Adam Chennoufi GIF Sundsvall Hampus Andersson GAIS 7 Junes Barny Ängelholms FF 7 Rasmus Lindkvist Östersunds FK Pierre Tillman Varbergs BoIS Simon Helg GIF Sundsvall Johan Svahn Falkenbergs FF

Top goalkeepers

(Minimum of 10 games played)

Rank	Goalkeeper	Club	GP	GA	SV%[22]	ShO
1	Peter Abrahamsson	Örgryte IS	26	31	82	10
1	Otto Martler	Falkenbergs FF	28	28	82	14
3	Johannes Hopf	Hammarby IF	29	27	80	10
4	Oscar Jansson	Örebro SK	30	21	79	11
5	Andreas Andersson	Ljungskile SK	10	10	78	3
5	Magnus Berglöf	Ljungskile SK	20	21	78	7
7	Petter Augustsson	Östersunds FK	25	26	77	9
8	August Strömberg	Degerfors IF	29	40	76	5
9	Tommi Vaiho	GAIS	30	47	75	8
9	Bill Halvorsen	Landskrona BoIS	28	45	75	9

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Muamet Asanovski	Ängelholms FF	Jönköpings Södra IF	2–4	29 April 2013
Thomas Boakye	Östersunds FK	Jönköpings Södra IF	5–0	4 May 2013
Gabriel Altemark Vanneryr	Varbergs BoIS	Örgryte IS	5–1	23 May 2013
Johan Bertilsson	Degerfors IF	Falkenbergs FF	2–4	24 June 2013
Joel Johansson	GAIS	GIF Sundsvall	4–4	20 July 2013
Shpëtim Hasani	Örebro SK	IFK Värnamo	0–5	2 August 2013
Fredrik Olsson	Landskrona BoIS	Hammarby IF	4–1	14 September 2013
Shpëtim Hasani	Örebro SK	GAIS	6–1	27 October 2013

Attendance

Club	Home		Away		Total
	Average	Total	Average	Total	Average	Total[2]
Hammarby IF	12,101	181,512	3,935	59,020	8,018	240,532
Örebro SK	4,937	74,062	2,629	39,435	3,783	113,497
GAIS	3,335	50,019	3,715	55,721	3,525	105,740
Östersunds FK	3,320	49,803	2,398	35,966	2,859	85,769
GIF Sundsvall	3,062	45,926	2,798	41,977	2,930	87,903
Örgryte IS	2,682	37,545	4,551	68,259	3,579	107,368
Degerfors IF	2,462	36,923	3,140	47,106	2,801	84,029
Falkenbergs FF	2,217	33,248	3,338	50,074	2,777	83,322
Varbergs BoIS	2,187	32,798	2,843	42,649	2,515	75,447
Landskrona BoIS	2,142	32,135	2,444	34,214	2,252	67,552
Assyriska FF	1 975	29,618	2,471	37,063	2,223	66,681
Jönköpings Södra IF	1,928	28,914	2,433	36,501	2,180	65,415
IK Brage	1,768	26,525	2,548	38,213	2,158	64,738
IFK Värnamo	1,394	20,909	2,504	37,563	1,949	58,472
Ljungskile SK	1,185	17,779	2,781	38,928	1,942	58,271
Ängelholms FF	695	10,432	2,950	44,256	1,823	54,688
League					2,957	709,712

See also

Competitions

• 2013 Allsvenskan
• 2013 Swedish football Division 1
• 2012–13 Svenska Cupen
• 2013 Svenska Supercupen