2018 Allsvenskan

The 2018 Allsvenskan, part of the 2018 Swedish football season, was the 94th season of Allsvenskan since its establishment in 1924. A total of 16 teams participated. As the 2018 FIFA World Cup will start on 14 June, the last round before stoppage will be held on 27 May. The league will resume games on 7 July.

Allsvenskan

Season	2018
Champions	AIK 6th Allsvenskan title 12th Swedish championship title
Relegated	IF Brommapojkarna Dalkurd FF Trelleborgs FF
Champions League	AIK
Europa League	IFK Norrköping Malmö FF
Top goalscorer	Paulinho (20 goals)
Biggest home win	BK Häcken 6–0 IF Brommapojkarna (26 August 2018)
Biggest away win	Trelleborgs FF 1–6 GIF Sundsvall (13 August 2018) Dalkurd FF 0–5 Häcken (27 October 2018)
Highest scoring	Östersunds FK 5–2 IK Sirius (23 May 2018) Trelleborgs FF 1–6 GIF Sundsvall (13 August 2018)
Longest winning run	8 matches AIK Malmö FF[1]
Longest unbeaten run	20 matches AIK
Longest winless run	19 matches Trelleborgs FF
Longest losing run	6 matches Trelleborgs FF
Highest attendance	50,128 AIK 0–0 GIF Sundsvall (4 November 2018)
Lowest attendance	202 Dalkurd FF 0–5 BK Häcken (27 October 2018)
Average attendance	8,423
← 2017 2019 →

Malmö FF were the defending champions after winning the title in the previous season. AIK won the Swedish championship this season, their sixth Allsvenskan title and 12th Swedish championship overall, in the 30th round on 11 November when they won 0–1 in the away fixture against Kalmar FF at Guldfågeln Arena.

Summary

Teams

Sundsvall

Dalkurd

Elfsborg

Gothenburg

Norrköping

Sirius

Trelleborg

Kalmar

Malmö

Stockholm

Örebro

Östersund

Stockholm teams
AIK
Brommapojkarna
Djurgården
HammarbyGothenburg teams
Häcken
IFK Göteborg

Location of teams in 2018 Allsvenskan

Brommapojkarna

AIK

Djurgården

Hammarby

Locations of Stockholm Teams in the 2018 Allsvenskan

A total of sixteen teams are contesting the league, including thirteen sides from the previous season, two promoted teams from the 2017 Superettan and one team from the 2017 Allsvenskan play-offs.

Halmstads BK and AFC Eskilstuna were relegated at the end of the 2017 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by 2017 Superettan champions IF Brommapojkarna and runners-up Dalkurd FF. IF Brommapojkarna returned to Allsvenskan after three years' absence, having been relegated at the end of the 2014 season. This is IF Brommapojkarna's sixth season in the league. Dalkurd FF are participating in the league for the first time in the club's history; they are the fourth new club in the last five Allsvenskan seasons (following Falkenbergs FF in 2014, Östersunds FK in 2016 and AFC Eskilstuna in 2017).

The final spot was taken by the 2017 Allsvenskan play-offs winner; Trelleborgs FF, third-placed team in 2017 Superettan, who replace Jönköpings Södra IF.

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Turf1	Stadium capacity1
AIK	Stockholm	Friends Arena	Natural	50,000
BK Häcken	Gothenburg	Bravida Arena	Artificial	6,500
Dalkurd FF	Gävle	Gavlevallen	Artificial	6,500
Djurgårdens IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	Artificial	30,000
GIF Sundsvall	Sundsvall	Idrottsparken	Artificial	7,700
Hammarby IF	Stockholm	Tele2 Arena	Artificial	30,000
IF Brommapojkarna	Stockholm	Grimsta IP	Artificial	8,000
IF Elfsborg	Borås	Borås Arena	Artificial	16,899
IFK Göteborg	Gothenburg	Gamla Ullevi	Natural	18,600
IFK Norrköping	Norrköping	Nya Parken	Artificial	15,734
IK Sirius	Uppsala	Studenternas IP	Natural	6,300
Kalmar FF	Kalmar	Guldfågeln Arena	Natural	12,000
Malmö FF	Malmö	Stadion	Natural	22,500[2]
Örebro SK	Örebro	Behrn Arena	Artificial	12,300
Östersunds FK	Östersund	Jämtkraft Arena	Artificial	8,466
Trelleborgs FF	Trelleborg	Vångavallen	Natural	7,000[3]

• ¹ According to each club information page at the Swedish Football Association website for Allsvenskan.^[4]

Personnel and sponsoring

All teams are obligated to have the logo of the league sponsor Svenska Spel as well as the Allsvenskan logo on the right sleeve of their shirt.

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	Main shirt sponsor
AIK	Rikard Norling	Henok Goitom	Nike	Notar
BK Häcken	Andreas Alm	Rasmus Lindgren	Nike	BRA Bygg
Dalkurd FF	Johan Sandahl	Peshraw Azizi	Adidas	Min Stora Dag
Djurgårdens IF	Özcan Melkemichel	Jonas Olsson	Adidas	Prioritet Finans
GIF Sundsvall	Joel Cedergren	Tommy Naurin	Adidas	SCA
Hammarby IF	Stefan Billborn	Kennedy Bakircioglu	Puma	Jobman
IF Brommapojkarna	Roberth Björknesjö	Gustav Sandberg Magnusson	Nike	Bauhaus
IF Elfsborg	Jimmy Thelin	Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard	Umbro	Pulsen
IFK Göteborg	Poya Asbaghi	David Boo Wiklander	Kappa	Prioritet Finans
IFK Norrköping	Jens Gustafsson	Andreas Johansson	Nike	Holmen
IK Sirius	Kim Bergstrand	Moses Ogbu	Nike	Various
Kalmar FF	Nanne Bergstrand	Viktor Elm	Hummel	Hjältevadshus
Malmö FF	Uwe Rösler	Markus Rosenberg	Puma	Volkswagen
Trelleborgs FF	Patrick Winqvist	Salif Camara Jönsson	Nike	Mellby Gård
Örebro SK	Axel Kjäll	Nordin Gerzić	Puma	Ambitiös
Östersunds FK	Ian Burchnall	Tom Pettersson	Adidas	Various

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
IFK Göteborg	Alf Westerberg	End of caretaker spell	November 20, 2017	Pre-season	Poya Asbaghi	November 21, 2017
IF Brommapojkarna	Olof Mellberg	Resigned	November 21, 2017		Luís Pimenta	December 13, 2017
BK Häcken	Mikael Stahre	Resigned	November 26, 2017		Andreas Alm	December 8, 2017
IF Elfsborg	Nemanja Miljanović Janne Mian	End of caretaker spell	December 6, 2017		Jimmy Thelin	December 6, 2017
Hammarby IF	Jakob Michelsen	Sacked	January 4, 2018		Stefan Billborn	January 10, 2018
Dalkurd FF	Andreas Brännström	Sacked	January 8, 2018		Azrudin Valentić	January 8, 2018
Malmö FF	Magnus Pehrsson	Sacked	May 14, 2018	10th	Daniel Andersson (caretaker)	May 14, 2018
Dalkurd FF	Azrudin Valentić	Sacked	May 25, 2018	16th	Adil Kizil (caretaker)	May 25, 2018
Östersunds FK	Graham Potter	Signed by Swansea City	June 4, 2018	6th	Ian Burchnall (caretaker)	June 4, 2018
Malmö FF	Daniel Andersson	End of caretaker spell	June 12, 2018	10th	Uwe Rösler	June 12, 2018
Dalkurd FF	Adil Kizil	End of caretaker spell	June 15, 2018	15th	Johan Sandahl	June 15, 2018
Östersunds FK	Ian Burchnall	Caretaker made permanent manager	July 18, 2018	5th	Ian Burchnall	July 18, 2018
IF Brommapojkarna	Luís Pimenta	Sacked	September 5, 2018	14th	Roberth Björknesjö	September 7, 2018

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AIK (C)	30	19	10	1	50	16	+34	67	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	IFK Norrköping	30	19	8	3	51	27	+24	65	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
3	Malmö FF	30	17	7	6	57	29	+28	58
4	Hammarby IF	30	17	7	6	56	35	+21	58
5	BK Häcken	30	16	5	9	58	27	+31	53	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[a]
6	Östersunds FK	30	15	4	11	51	39	+12	49
7	Djurgårdens IF	30	13	9	8	40	31	+9	48
8	GIF Sundsvall	30	12	8	10	47	35	+12	44
9	Örebro SK	30	9	8	13	34	40	−6	35
10	Kalmar FF	30	9	7	14	27	35	−8	34
11	IFK Göteborg	30	9	4	17	38	53	−15	31
12	IF Elfsborg	30	7	9	14	29	41	−12	30
13	IK Sirius	30	8	6	16	37	61	−24	30
14	IF Brommapojkarna (R)	30	8	2	20	25	64	−39	26	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
15	Dalkurd FF (R)	30	6	6	18	30	57	−27	24	Relegation to the Superettan
16	Trelleborgs FF (R)	30	3	6	21	24	64	−40	15

Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off
(Note: Play-off is only played if need to decide champion, teams for relegation or UEFA competition and will be played on a neutral ground).
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. BK Häcken qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round by winning the 2018–19 Svenska Cupen.

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
AIK	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
IFK Norrköping	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2
Malmö FF	5	5	6	9	8	10	10	11	11	11	12	10	10	8	7	6	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	4	3
Hammarby IF	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	4
BK Häcken	6	11	4	6	7	9	8	7	7	7	9	8	8	10	10	9	8	6	6	8	5	5	5	5	6	5	4	4	5	5
Östersunds FK	13	16	14	11	14	11	11	10	10	9	7	5	5	5	5	4	3	4	5	5	6	6	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	6
Djurgårdens IF	7	6	8	5	6	8	9	9	8	5	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	7	8	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	7
GIF Sundsvall	8	3	5	3	4	3	6	5	5	8	6	9	9	6	6	7	7	8	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	8
Örebro SK	9	12	7	8	5	4	3	6	6	4	5	7	7	9	8	10	10	11	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Kalmar FF	12	10	11	10	9	6	5	4	4	6	8	6	6	7	9	8	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
IFK Göteborg	2	7	9	7	10	7	7	8	9	10	10	12	12	12	11	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	11
IF Elfsborg	10	14	16	13	11	12	13	14	14	13	11	11	11	11	12	12	13	13	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12
IK Sirius	14	15	13	12	13	15	16	16	15	15	16	16	16	14	13	13	12	12	13	13	14	14	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	13
IF Brommapojkarna	11	9	12	15	15	16	12	13	12	14	14	14	14	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	14	14	14	15	15	15	14	14
Dalkurd FF	16	8	10	14	12	13	14	15	16	16	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	15	15
Trelleborgs FF	15	13	15	16	16	14	15	12	13	12	13	13	13	13	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

	Leader
	2019–20 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
	Relegation play-offs
	Relegation to 2019 Superettan

Source: everysport.com

Results

Home \ Away	AIK	BKH	DFF	DIF	GIFS	HAM	BP	IFE	IFKG	IFKN	IKS	KFF	MFF	TFF	ÖSK	ÖFK
AIK	—	3–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	5–1	1–0	2–0	3–3	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1
Häcken	1–1	—	3–0	5–0	3–0	2–2	6–0	5–0	4–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–0
Dalkurd	0–4	0–5	—	1–2	2–2	2–3	3–0	1–4	1–1	0–2	1–3	1–2	0–1	2–2	1–0	3–0
Djurgården	0–0	2–1	1–0	—	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–2
Sundsvall	0–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	—	2–3	3–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	4–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	2–3
Hammarby	0–1	1–0	4–1	1–3	4–3	—	4–0	0–1	3–0	2–1	3–1	0–0	3–2	1–0	2–0	1–2
Brommapojkarna	0–2	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–3	2–4	—	0–2	0–2	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–3	3–0	0–0	0–4
Elfsborg	0–0	0–3	0–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	1–2	—	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	0–2
Göteborg	0–2	2–1	1–0	1–3	1–2	1–2	3–0	2–2	—	0–2	2–3	1–3	0–3	2–2	2–0	2–1
Norrköping	2–0	2–1	4–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	—	1–0	3–1	3–1	1–2	3–2	4–2
Sirius	2–3	0–0	2–3	1–5	1–3	1–1	4–2	4–2	3–2	1–1	—	1–1	0–4	1–1	2–4	0–1
Kalmar	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	—	3–0	2–1	0–1	1–1
Malmö	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	5–0	4–0	—	3–0	4–0	1–1
Trelleborg	1–4	0–3	0–1	0–3	1–6	1–3	2–1	2–2	1–3	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	—	1–2	0–1
Örebro	1–1	1–2	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–3	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	4–0	—	2–1
Östersund	1–2	2–0	3–0	0–1	1–2	3–3	3–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	5–2	2–0	2–3	4–1	0–2	—

Source: Swedish Football Association (in Swedish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Play-offs

The 14th-placed team of Allsvenskan meets the third-placed team from 2018 Superettan in a two-legged tie on a home-and-away basis with the team from Allsvenskan finishing at home.

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AFC Eskilstuna	0–1	IF Brommapojkarna
	Report	Lahne 12'

22 November 2018

19:00

Tunavallen, Eskilstuna

Attendance: 3,465

Referee: Stefan Johannesson

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IF Brommapojkarna	1–2	AFC Eskilstuna
Öhman 39'	Report	Nnamani 65' Ajeti 75'

25 November 2018

14:45

Grimsta IP, Stockholm

Attendance: 1,925

Referee: Andreas Ekberg

2–2 on aggregate. AFC Eskilstuna won on away goals.

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Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 11 November 2018^[5]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Paulinho	BK Häcken	20
2	Linus Hallenius	GIF Sundsvall	18
3	Nikola Đurđić	Hammarby IF	13
	Romain Gall	GIFS / MFF
	Markus Rosenberg	Malmö FF
6	Henok Goitom	AIK	12
7	Jiloan Hamad	Hammarby IF	11

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Jiloan Hamad	Hammarby	Sirius	3–1	1 April 2018
Pa Dibba	Hammarby	Sundsvall	4–3	5 May 2018
Paulinho	Häcken	Trelleborg	0–3	6 May 2018
Tino Kadewere4 goals	Djurgården	Sirius	1–5	27 May 2018
Nicolás Stefanelli	AIK	Brommapojkarna	5–1	22 July 2018
Elías Már Ómarsson	IFK Göteborg	Brommapojkarna	3–0	28 July 2018
Linus Hallenius	Sundsvall	Trelleborg	1–6	13 August 2018
Dino Islamović	Östersund	Brommapojkarna	3–1	26 September 2018
Philip Haglund	Sirius	Brommapojkarna	4–2	28 October 2018

Monthly awards

Month	Allsvenskan Player of the Month		Reference
	Player	Club
April	Jiloan Hamad	Hammarby IF	[6]
May	Pa Dibba	Hammarby IF	[7]
July	Saman Ghoddos	Östersunds FK	[8]
August	Paulinho	BK Häcken	[9]
September	Henok Goitom	AIK	[10]
October	Paulinho	BK Häcken	[11]

Annual awards

Award[12]	Winner	Club
Player of the Year	Paulinho	BK Häcken
Goalkeeper of the Year	Isak Pettersson	IFK Norrköping
Defender of the Year	Per Karlsson	AIK
Midfielder of the Year	Kristoffer Olsson	AIK
Striker of the Year	Paulinho	BK Häcken
Breakthrough of the Year	Muamer Tanković	Hammarby IF
Coach of the Year	Rikard Norling	AIK

See also

• Association football portal
• Sweden portal

Competitions 2018 Superettan 2018 Division 1 2017–18 Svenska Cupen 2018–19 Svenska Cupen

Team seasons 2018 AIK Fotboll season 2018 Djurgårdens IF season 2018 Hammarby Fotboll season 2018 Malmö FF season

Attendances

Hammarby IF drew the highest average home attendance in the 2018 edition of the Swedish top-flight football league.

#	Football club	Home games	Average attendance[13]
1	Hammarby IF	15	23,680
2	AIK Fotboll	15	23,664
3	Malmö FF	15	14,921
4	Djurgårdens IF	15	12,307
5	IFK Göteborg	15	9,979
6	IFK Norrköping	15	9,139
7	IF Elfsborg	15	6,318
8	Östersunds FK	15	6,021
9	Kalmar FF	15	5,563
10	Örebro SK	15	5,497
11	GIF Sundsvall	15	4,067
12	IK Sirius	15	3,999
13	BK Häcken	15	3,462
14	Trelleborgs FF	15	2,503
15	IF Brommapojkarna	15	2,237
16	Dalkurd FF	15	1,062