2019 Superettan

The 2019 Superettan was part of the 2019 Swedish football season, and the 20th season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football division in its current format. A total of 16 teams contest the league.

Superettan

Season	2019
Champions	Mjällby AIF
Promoted	Mjällby AIF Varbergs BoIS
Relegated	IK Frej IF Brommapojkarna Syrianska FC
Top goalscorer	Erik Björndahl (20 goals)
Biggest away win	Norrby IF 1–7 Jönköpings Södra IF (21 April 2019) [1]
Highest scoring	Norrby IF 1–7 Jönköpings Södra IF (21 April 2019) Norrby IF 4–4 Örgryte IS (3 November 2019)
Longest winning run	7 matches Varbergs BoIS Mjällby AIF[2]
Longest unbeaten run	12 matches Varbergs BoIS
Longest winless run	11 matches Östers IF IK Frej
Longest losing run	5 matches GAIS
Highest attendance	9,903 Örgryte IS 1–0 GAIS (17 June 2019)
Lowest attendance	51 Dalkurd FF 3–2 Trelleborgs FF (29 September 2019)
Average attendance	1,632
← 2018 2020 →

Teams

A total of 16 teams contest the league. The top two teams qualify directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third will enter a play-off for the chance of promotion. The two bottom teams are automatically relegated, while the 13th and 14th placed teams will compete in a play-off to determine whether they are relegated.

Stadia and locations

Dalkurd

Degerfors

GAIS

Halmstad

BP

Brage

Frej

J-Södra

Öster

Mjällby

Norrby

Varberg

Västerås

Örgryte

Syrianska

Trelleborg

Locations of the 2019 Superettan teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Turf1	Stadium capacity1
Dalkurd FF	Gävle	Gavlevallen	Artificial	6,500
Degerfors IF	Degerfors	Stora Valla	Natural	12,500
GAIS	Gothenburg	Gamla Ullevi	Natural	18,416[3]
Halmstads BK	Halmstad	Örjans Vall	Natural	10,873
IF Brommapojkarna	Stockholm	Grimsta IP	Artificial	8,000
IK Brage	Borlänge	Domnarvsvallen	Artificial	6,500
IK Frej	Täby kyrkby	Vikingavallen	Artificial	2,650
Jönköpings Södra IF	Jönköping	Stadsparksvallen	Natural	5,500
Mjällby AIF	Hällevik	Strandvallen	Natural	6,750
Norrby IF	Borås	Borås Arena	Artificial	17,800
Syrianska FC	Södertälje	Södertälje Fotbollsarena	Artificial	6,400
Trelleborgs FF	Trelleborg	Vångavallen	Natural	7,000[4]
Varbergs BoIS	Varberg	Påskbergsvallen	Natural	4,500
Västerås SK	Västerås	Solid Park Arena	Artificial	7,000
Örgryte IS	Gothenburg	Gamla Ullevi	Natural	18,416[3]
Östers IF	Växjö	Myresjöhus Arena	Natural	12,000

Personnel and sponsoring

This is the last season that all teams will be obligated to have the logo of the league sponsor Svenska Spel on their jersey, as Unibet will become the main league sponsor starting in 2020. Teams are also required to wear the Superettan logo on the right sleeve of their jerseys.

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
Dalkurd FF	Paul Olausson	Peshraw Azizi[5]
Degerfors IF	Stefan Jacobsson	Christoffer Wiktorsson
GAIS	Bosko Orović	Marcus Bergholtz
Halmstads BK	Magnus Haglund	Peter Larsson
IF Brommapojkarna	Roberth Björknesjö	Gustav Sandberg Magnusson
IK Brage	Klebér Saarenpää	Robbin Sellin
IK Frej	Lukasz Syberyjski	Pedro Ribeiro
Jönköpings Södra IF	Andreas Brännström	Tommy Thelin
Mjällby AIF	Miloš Milojević	David Löfquist
Norrby IF	Mohammed Ali Khan	Marcus Översjö
Syrianska FC	Kuorosh Hatami	Sebastian Rajalakso
Trelleborgs FF	Peter Swärdh	Salif Camara Jönsson
Västerås SK	Thomas Gabrielsson	Ilir Berisha
Varbergs BoIS	Joakim Persson	Matt Pyzdrowski
Örgryte IS	Thomas Askebrand	Daniel Paulson
Östers IF	Christian Järdler	Stefan Karlsson

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Mjällby AIF (C, P)	30	17	6	7	44	31	+13	57	Promotion to Allsvenskan
2	Varbergs BoIS (P)	30	15	10	5	49	27	+22	55
3	IK Brage	30	16	6	8	54	33	+21	54	Qualification to promotion play-offs
4	Jönköpings Södra IF	30	15	7	8	52	31	+21	52
5	Degerfors IF	30	15	6	9	46	34	+12	51
6	Halmstads BK	30	14	4	12	45	34	+11	46
7	Örgryte IS	30	12	10	8	43	37	+6	46
8	Dalkurd FF	30	13	5	12	43	47	−4	44
9	Norrby IF	30	11	9	10	43	43	0	42
10	Västerås SK	30	8	10	12	41	40	+1	34
11	Trelleborgs FF	30	7	11	12	34	47	−13	32
12	GAIS	30	8	8	14	23	40	−17	32
13	Östers IF (O)	30	6	11	13	32	43	−11	29	Qualification to relegation play-offs
14	IK Frej (R)	30	7	8	15	35	55	−20	29
15	IF Brommapojkarna (R)	30	6	10	14	38	49	−11	28	Relegation to Ettan
16	Syrianska FC (R)	30	6	7	17	29	60	−31	25

Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Playoffs

The 13th-placed and 14th-placed teams of Superettan met the two runners-up from 2019 Division 1 (Norra and Södra) in two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis with the teams from Superettan finishing at home.

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Landskrona BoIS	1–1	Östers IF
Olsson 9'	Report	Kapčević 13'

7 November 2019

7:00 pm

Landskrona IP, Landskrona

Attendance: 4,035

Referee: Johan Krantz

Östers IF	1–0	Landskrona BoIS
Keene 74'	Report

10 November 2019

1:00 pm

Myresjöhus Arena, Växjö

Attendance: 3,719

Referee: Adam Ladebäck

Östers IF won 2–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2020 Superettan.

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Umeå FC	1–1	IK Frej
Stigedahl 68'	Report	Hudu 90'

7 November 2019

7:00 pm

Umeå Energi Arena, Umeå

Attendance: 2,752

Referee: Per Melin

IK Frej	2–2	Umeå FC
Zeidan 24', 30'	Report	Boye 2', 13'

10 November 2019

1:00 pm

Vikingavallen, Täby kyrkby

Attendance: 1,428

Referee: Fredrik Klitte

3–3 on aggregate. Umeå FC won on away goals and qualified for the 2020 Superettan.

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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
Mjällby AIF	13	14	10	15	10	6	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	1	1	1	2	1	1
Varbergs BoIS	5	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	4	2	3	4	2	1	2	2
IK Brage	2	4	4	2	2	3	5	3	3	5	4	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	3	4	3
Jönköpings Södra IF	14	15	11	5	6	9	9	8	5	4	5	3	5	4	5	4	5	5	4	3	3	2	1	1	2	2	3	4	3	4
Degerfors IF	1	1	2	4	7	4	2	4	6	6	8	11	8	7	8	8	8	8	8	9	8	7	6	7	7	7	5	5	5	5
Halmstads BK	4	9	12	9	13	16	13	14	15	12	13	13	12	10	9	9	9	11	10	8	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	8	6
Örgryte IS	8	3	3	3	3	5	6	6	8	9	6	6	4	6	4	5	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	7
Dalkurd FF	11	13	15	11	15	11	14	15	11	8	9	7	7	8	7	6	6	7	7	7	7	6	7	6	6	6	7	7	7	8
Norrby IF	9	6	6	8	5	2	4	5	4	3	3	4	6	5	6	7	7	6	6	6	6	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9
Västerås SK	3	5	7	6	4	8	7	9	9	11	12	9	10	9	10	10	11	10	9	10	9	9	11	10	10	10	12	10	10	10
Trelleborgs FF	6	12	14	14	9	10	11	11	10	10	7	10	11	12	13	12	10	9	11	11	11	11	9	11	11	11	10	11	11	11
GAIS	7	10	5	7	11	7	8	7	7	7	10	8	9	11	12	11	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	13	12	11	12	12	12
Östers IF	10	11	9	13	16	12	12	13	13	15	14	14	15	15	15	16	16	14	16	15	15	15	16	16	16	15	16	14	15	13
IK Frej	15	16	16	16	14	14	10	10	12	13	11	12	14	14	14	14	15	15	14	16	16	16	15	14	12	13	13	15	13	14
IF Brommapojkarna	12	7	8	12	8	13	15	12	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	14	16	15	14	14	14	14	13	14	14	15	13	14	15
Syrianska FC	16	8	13	10	12	15	16	16	16	14	15	15	13	13	11	13	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	15	15	16	14	16	16	16

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

Source: everysport.com

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 3 November 2019^[6]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Erik Björndahl	Degerfors IF	20
2	Rasmus Wiedesheim-Paul	Halmstads BK	19
3	Edin Hamidovic	Jönköpings Södra IF	15
	Christian Kouakou	IK Brage
	Astrit Seljmani	Varbergs BoIS
6	Gustav Ludwigson	Örgryte IS	12
	Anton Lundin	IK Brage
8	Ahmed Awad	Dalkurd FF	10
	Bubacarr Jobe	Mjällby AIF
	Daryl Smylie	Jönköpings Södra IF