The 2019–20 HockeyAllsvenskan season was the 15th season that the second tier of Swedish ice hockey has operated under that name. The series consisted of 14 teams playing a regular season in which each team played each other team four times, twice at home and twice away. This was followed by a series of promotion and relegation tournaments, with the teams finishing first through eight participating in promotion playoffs, and the teams finishing 13th and 14th forced to requalify to avoid relegation to the Hockeyettan. However, after the regular season, on 15 March 2020 the Swedish Ice Hockey Association (SIHA) cancelled the post-season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. No teams will be promoted nor relegated to or from HockeyAllsvenskan, and the next season of HockeyAllsvenskan will feature the same teams.
Björklöven won the regular season with a record-setting 121 points, beating the previous record of 109 points.
Participating teams
Team City Arena Capacity AIK Stockholm Hovet 8,094 Almtuna IS Uppsala Gränby Ishall 2,800 IF Björklöven Umeå A3 Arena 5,400 BIK Karlskoga Karlskoga Nobelhallen 6,300 Karlskrona HK Karlskrona NKT Arena Karlskrona 5,050 Kristianstads IK Kristianstad Kristianstads ishall 2,300 Modo Hockey Örnsköldsvik Fjällräven Center 7,600 Mora IK Mora Jalas Arena 4,500 Södertälje SK Södertälje Axa Sports Center 6,200 Timrå IK Timrå NHK Arena 6,000 Tingsryds AIF Tingsryd Nelson Garden Arena 3,400 HC Vita Hästen Norrköping Himmelstalundshallen 4,280 Västerviks IK Västervik Plivit Trade-hallen 2,500 Västerås IK Västerås ABB Arena Nord 4,902
Regular season Standings
Statistics
Scoring leaders
The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of matches played on 6 March 2020. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.
Player Team Modo Hockey 52 29 50 79 +28 32 Timrå IK 51 36 41 77 +29 42 Modo Hockey 52 30 38 68 +25 24 Timrå IK 52 26 42 68 +26 28 Modo Hockey 37 28 35 63 +25 51 BIK Karlskoga 52 32 21 53 +7 12 BIK Karlskoga 51 26 27 53 +13 38 Södertälje SK 50 28 23 51 +14 68 Södertälje SK 49 28 22 50 +15 36 IF Björklöven 51 19 28 47 +20 50
Leading goaltenders The following shows the top ten goaltenders who led the league in goals against average, provided that they have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, at the conclusion of matches played on 6 March 2020.
Player Team IF Björklöven 41 2478:41 33 0 8 71 6 93.81 1.72 Timrå IK 45 2707:00 33 0 12 96 3 91.41 2.13 HC Vita Hästen 37 2199:44 19 0 18 87 4 89.80 2.37 Tingsryds AIF 32 1865:03 16 0 14 74 2 92.41 2.38 Modo Hockey 25 1378:23 16 0 6 55 2 90.60 2.39 Västerås IK 29 1647:30 17 0 12 66 1 91.92 2.40 Karlskrona HK 29 1665:58 12 0 15 67 3 91.40 2.41 BIK Karlskoga 30 1742:09 19 0 10 73 2 91.48 2.51 Modo Hockey 25 1369:29 16 0 8 59 3 90.34 2.58 Södertälje SK 30 1743:06 16 0 13 79 0 90.99 2.72
Post-season Finals The top two teams from the regular season met in a best-of-five tournament, with the winner advancing directly to the SHL qualifiers, and the losing team forced to play an additional playoff.
IF Björklöven vs. Modo Hockey
HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs Teams 3–8 from the regular season played a single round-robin tournament, with teams 3–5 getting home-ice advantage. The season would then be over for all but the winning team, which would advance to meet the loser of the HockeyAllsvenskan finals in a playoff to the SHL qualifiers. Teams also started with bonus points based on their position in the regular season standings. Team 3 began with three points, team 4 with two points, and team 5 with one point.
Playoff to the SHL qualifiers In the playoff to the SHL qualifiers (), the losing team from the HockeyAllsvenskan finals would meet the winning team from the HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs in a best-of-three series. The winning team would advance to the SHL qualifiers.
SHL qualifiers Two teams from the HockeyAllsvenskan and two teams from the SHL would play a best-of-seven series, with the winner qualifying for play in the 2020–21 SHL season. The winner of the HockeyAllsvenskan finals would meet team 14 from the SHL, while the winner of the playoff to the SHL qualifiers would meet team 13 from the SHL.
HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers Teams 13 and 14 from the regular season would defend their spots in HockeyAllsvenskan in the HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers () against the four best teams from Hockeyettan.
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