The 2016 Superettan, part of the 2016 Swedish football season, was the 17th season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football league in its current format. The 2016 fixtures were released in December 2015. The season started in April 2016 and ended in November 2016.
Teams A total of 16 teams contested the league. The top two teams qualified directly for promotion to the Allsvenskan, whilst the third had to play a play-off against the fourteenth-placed team in the Allsvenskan to decide who would play in the 2017 Allsvenskan. The bottom two teams were directly relegated to Division 1, whilst the thirteenth and the fourteenth-placed teams had to play-off against the second-placed teams from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who would play in the 2017 Superettan.
2015 champions Jönköpings Södra IF and runners-up Östersunds FK were promoted to the Allsvenskan at the end of the 2015 season. They were replaced by Halmstads BK and Åtvidabergs FF. Utsiktens BK and IF Brommapojkarna were relegated at the end of the 2015 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by Division 1 Norra champions Dalkurd FF and Division 1 Södra champions Trelleborgs FF. Mjällby AIF was also relegated after losing the relegation play-offs to Division 1 Södra runner-up Örgryte IS.
Stadia and locations
Team Location Stadium Turf1 Stadium capacity1 2015 seasonAFC UnitedStockholmSkytteholms IPNatural2,0008th in SuperettanAssyriska FFSödertäljeSödertälje FotbollsarenaArtificial6,4004th in SuperettanDalkurd FFBorlängeDomnarvsvallenArtificial6,5001st in Division 1 NorraDegerfors IFDegerforsStora VallaNatural12,5009th in SuperettanGAISGothenburgGamla UlleviNatural18,41611th in SuperettanHalmstads BKHalmstadÖrjans VallNatural15,50015th in AllsvenskanIFK VärnamoVärnamoFinnvedsvallenNatural5,00010th in SuperettanIK FrejTäbyVikingavallenArtificial2,75014th in SuperettanIK SiriusUppsalaStudenternas IPNatural6,3003rd in SuperettanLjungskile SKLjungskileUddevalla ArenaNatural8,0006th in SuperettanSyrianska FCSödertäljeSödertälje FotbollsarenaArtificial6,4007th in SuperettanTrelleborgs FFTrelleborgVångavallenNatural10,0001st in Division 1 SödraVarbergs BoISVarbergPåskbergsvallenNatural4,5005th in Superettan Åtvidabergs FF Åtvidaberg KopparvallenArtificial8,00016th in AllsvenskanÄngelholms FFÄngelholmÄngelholms IPNatural5,00012th in SuperettanÖrgryte ISGothenburgGamla UlleviNatural18,4162nd in Division 1 Södra 1 According to each club information page at the Swedish Football Association website for Superettan.
League table
Playoffs The 13th-placed and 14th-placed teams in the Superettan met the two runners-up from 2016 Division 1 (Norra and Södra) in Two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis with the teams from the Superettan finishing at home.
Norrby IF won 4–2 on aggregate.
Syrianska FC won 5–1 on aggregate.
Positions by round
Season statistics Top scorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Shkodran MaholliÅtvidabergs FF152 Dragan KapčevićIK Sirius143 Alexander Ruud TveterHalmstads BK134 Mirkan AydınDalkurd FF12 Marcus PodeTrelleborgs FF6 Pär CederqvistIFK Värnamo11 Fredrik OlssonHalmstads BK
Top goalkeepers (Minimum of 10 games played) RankGoalkeeperClub1 Josh WicksAFC United291686162 Lukas JonssonIK Sirius191382113 Fredrik PerssonTrelleborgs FF262781114 Stojan LukićHalmstads BK30287815 Benny LekströmIK Sirius111036 Tommi VaihoGAIS29357787 Robertino KljajicÖrgryte IS19277658 Jonathan RasheedIFK Värnamo304074109 Marko AtanackovicIK Frej2436734
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Luka Mijaljević Luther SinghGAISÄngelholms FF7–022 May 2016 Mohamed Buya TurayAFC UnitedSyrianska FC1–329 May 2016 Mirkan AydınDalkurd FFÅtvidabergs FF5–04 June 2016 Dragan Kapčević4 goalsIK SiriusAssyriska FF5–324 July 2016 Salif Camara JönssonTrelleborgs FFÅtvidabergs FF5–215 August 2016 Shkodran MaholliÅtvidabergs FFÄngelholms FF4–15 November 2016
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