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61-482: During seasons 1948–49 through 1974–75 Allsvenskan was the semi-official name of the first-level league, the official name being Division 1 norra (north) and södra (south), comprising six teams each until 1955–56 and eight teams each from 1956–57 to 1973–74. In 1974–75 it was played as one Division 1 league with sixteen teams, leading up to the start in the 1975–76 season of the present SHL . The second highest-level league had been called Division 2 since 1941–42, and

122-421: A best-of-three or best-of-seven series in order to advance to the next round. The playoffs consist of four rounds: The eighth finals, the quarterfinals, the semifinals and the finals. In the first round, the eighth finals (known as Play In before the 2015–16 season), the 7th-ranked team from the regular season is paired against the 10th-ranked team and the 8th-ranked team is paired against the 9th-ranked team. In

183-525: A 4–1 victory. 31,144 spectators saw the game, setting a new record for the largest attendance at an ice hockey league match in Sweden. The following year, Färjestad and Frölunda met again in an outdoor game, this time in Karlstad . Färjestad won the game 5–2 in front of 15,274 spectators. The 2013 outdoor game was played on 14 December 2013, between Frölunda HC and Skellefteå AIK at Gamla Ullevi . The game

244-435: A result of the 2012 Kvalserien for HockeyAllsvenskan , averaged 2,161 spectators per game (combined) while Sundsvall and Borås just averaged 1,033 spectators. Also, Örebro HK increased their average attendance from 2,445 to 3,618 spectators per game. In seven years, the average attendance increased from 1,996 in the 2005–06 season to 3,227 spectators per game in the 2012–13 season, an increase of 61.7%. The following season saw

305-476: A slight drop to 3,016 spectators per game, a decrease of 6.5% from the 2012–13 season. C More Entertainment has had the broadcast rights for HockeyAllsvenskan since 2015, with a selection of games being broadcast on television and the remainder being streamed online. They replaced Viasat who had the broadcast rights from 2009 from 2015. Halmstad played in HockeyAllsvenskan this season, but due to

366-660: A total of 52 games per team. After the regular season, teams 1 and 2 play the HockeyAllsvenskan Final in best of five games, and teams 3-8 play the HockeyAllsvenskan Slutspelsserie, a single meeting round robin tournament, where teams 3-5 start with 3, 2 and 1 bonus points, respectively, and play one more game at home. The winner of the HockeyAllsvenskan Final gets to challenge team 14 from the SHL in best of seven games for their spot in

427-586: Is presented as the "Flagship Game" and shown on TV4 Hockey with a studio show before, between the periods and after the game. During the 2004–05 NHL lockout , SHL games were being broadcast in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet . In the beginning of the 2023-24 season it was announced that all games would be available on HomeofHockey.tv in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium and Spain with one selected game having English commentary. Sveriges Radio (SR)

488-434: Is rectangular ice rink with rounded corners and surrounded by a wall. It measures 30 by 60 meters (98.42 by 196.85 ft), conforming to international standards. Counting from the formation of the SHL in 1975, Färjestad BK is the most successful team with ten Swedish Championship titles. Brynäs IF and Djurgårdens IF are tied for the second most successful team with six championship titles. Counting from 1922, when

549-709: Is the official radio broadcaster of the SHL. Each round is covered by Sportextra in SR P4 with reports from all arenas; all games are available in their entirety on SR's internet radio and to mobile phones via 3G. Teams from the league are playable in the video games Elitserien 95  [ sv ] and Elitserien 96  [ sv ] for Sega Mega Drive , and Elitserien 2001  [ sv ] for PC . Since NHL 2004 , teams have appeared in EA Sports ' NHL series 2005%E2%80%9306 HockeyAllsvenskan season The 2005–06 HockeyAllsvenskan season

610-438: Is tied following the 60-minute regulation time, a five-minute three-on-three sudden death overtime period is played. If a game still is tied after the overtime period, a shootout decides the game. In a shootout, the team that scores the most penalty shots out of three attempts wins the game. If the game is still tied after the first three penalty-shot rounds, the shootout continues round by round, until one team scores while

671-468: The Swedish ice hockey champions . Before the 2013–14 season , the top-tier teams got to choose their opponents in the quarterfinals. The eighth finals are played as best-of-three series while the other rounds are played as best-of-seven series. In each series, the higher-ranked team of the two has home-ice advantage . Each series is played in an alternating home-away format, with the first game played at

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732-470: The elite license ), and Huddinge was promoted to fill in that spot. The 2008–09 season became the last season with sixteen teams in HockeyAllsvenskan. On May 30, 2008, the board of the SIHA decided to decrease the number of teams to fourteen, starting from the 2009–10 season. In Kvalserien , none of the four top teams from HockeyAllsvenskan succeeded in qualifying for the highest division this year. Instead,

793-412: The qualification rounds for Elitserien , Södertälje advanced to Elitserien while Malmö only finished third and was relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan. This season, Huddinge and Arboga had to play in the qualification series to stay in the league, but Arboga decided not to play because of their bad economic state of affairs. This meant that Arboga joined Division 1 in the 2007–08 season. Huddinge won

854-410: The 2009–10 season, the number of teams in the league was decreased from sixteen to fourteen. In the 2008–09 season the last placed team was directly relegated, and the teams ranked fourteen and fifteen played in the qualification league, from which only the best team was qualified for the next HockeyAllsvenskan season. HockeyAllsvenskan has seen a significant increase in average attendance per game since

915-458: The 2010–11 season would be the first time ever with no team from the Stockholm area in the second level league of Swedish ice hockey. In Kvalserien , Växjö managed to promote to Elitserien at the expense of Södertälje . (With Södertälje back in HockeyAllsvenskan, the Stockholm area was re-established on the second level.) The qualification system for the teams 4–7 to qualify for Kvalserien

976-555: The 2012–13 season and Borås were therefore relegated to Division 1 while Asplöven , the 3rd-ranked team from the HockeyAllsvenskan Kvalserien, took over their spot for the next HockeyAllsvenskan season. Swedish Hockey League The Swedish Hockey League ( SHL ; Swedish : Svenska Hockeyligan ) is a professional ice hockey league , and the highest division in the Swedish ice hockey system . The league currently consists of 14 teams. The league

1037-547: The Elitserien. For the 1987–88 season the Elitserien was expanded from ten to twelve teams, and now also the two last teams in Elitserien by the end of the year were moved down for play in the Allsvenskan together with the top eight Division 1 teams. Still with a best of five final between the top two teams, and play-offs for teams 3–8. From the 1996–97 season, the Elitserien changed and played with all twelve teams for

1098-733: The European Trophy. Participation is based on the strength of the various leagues in Europe (excluding the European/Asian Kontinental Hockey League ). Going into the 2022–23 CHL season , the SHL was ranked the No. 1 league in Europe, allowing them to send their top five teams to compete in the CHL. The Swedish Ice Hockey Championship was awarded for the first time in 1922 , only two years after ice hockey

1159-500: The European second-tier league with the highest average attendance as a result. This dramatic increase can be explained by the fact that Djurgårdens IF , who replaced Rögle BK 's position in the league as a result of the 2012 Kvalserien , averaged 6,184 spectators per game compared to Rögle who just averaged 2,973 spectators; as well as the fact that Karlskrona HK and Asplöven HC , who replaced IF Sundsvall Hockey and Borås HC as

1220-421: The HockeyAllsvenskan at the end of the previous season, after five seasons in the SHL. The SHL season is divided into a regular season from late September through the beginning of March, when teams play against each other in a pre-defined schedule, and a playoffs from March to April, which is an elimination tournament where two teams play against each other to win a best-of-seven series in order to advance to

1281-501: The Kvalserien. Troja/Ljungby and Tingsryd ended at 13th and 14th place respectively and thus were forced to play in the Kvalserien for HockeyAllsvenskan. Troja/Ljungby and Tingsryd ended 1st and 2nd respectively in the Kvalserien and thus stayed in HockeyAllsvenskan for the 2011–12 season. This also meant that no team from Division 1 qualified for HockeyAllsvenskan this season. In Kvalserien , Rögle promoted to Elitserien at

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1342-496: The Russian Kontinental Hockey League , on behalf of five SHL teams – Färjestad, Frölunda , Djurgården , Linköping and HV71 – that were reportedly "interested in discussing the future of European hockey". It was believed that these five teams had intended to leave the SHL league after the 2009–10 season; they terminated their shareholders' agreements with Hockeyligan , the name at that time for

1403-600: The SHL playoffs is named Swedish Champions and awarded the Le Mat Trophy . There is only one trophy that is awarded to players based on their statistics during the regular season; the Håkan Loob Trophy for the goal-scoring leader. One of the most prestigious individual awards is Guldhjälmen , which is awarded annually to the Most Valuable Player . The voting is conducted by the players in

1464-546: The SHL was third best in Europe, with an attendance average of 5,978. The SHL was the second most popular sports team league within Sweden, after the football league Allsvenskan , which in the 2013 season had an average attendance of 7,627. Between 2009 and 2013, the league hosted an outdoor game in the regular season in December every year. The first outdoor game was played on 28 December 2009, between Frölunda HC and Färjestad BK at Ullevi . Frölunda came out on top with

1525-619: The SHL's interest organisation. The teams also formed an interest group to investigate the possibility of forming a continental hockey league spanning several European countries. These plans were abandoned in November 2011, however, with Frölunda's chairman expressing hopes for the future of the European Trophy (which was disbanded with the formation of the Champions Hockey League in 2013). On 17 June 2013,

1586-675: The SHL. Starting in 2010, an annual playoff MVP was acknowledged. The playoff MVP award was later renamed the Stefan Liv Memorial Trophy in honour of Swedish goalkeeper Stefan Liv after his death in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash . SHL games are broadcast nationally in Sweden by TV4 and streamed on TV4 Play . Selected games are shown in Finland by C More and in Norway by VG+ . One game from each round

1647-518: The SHL. Guldpucken is awarded annually to the ice hockey player of the year in Sweden. It is not necessarily awarded to a player in the SHL; for the 2005–06 season the award was given to Kenny Jönsson in the Swedish second-tier ice hockey league HockeyAllsvenskan . The award Årets Rookie (Rookie of the Year) is awarded annually by Svenska Spel and Svenska Hockeyligan to the best rookie player in

1708-527: The club's bankruptcy the team was disqualified. In Kvalserien , Malmö and Skellefteå were promoted to play in Elitserien for the 2006–07 season. Leksand and Södertälje were both relegated from Elitserien. Arboga and Hammarby had to play the relegation rounds but managed to keep their spots in the league, coming in second respectively third after Huddinge , who had been relegated one year previously, but made it back after one year in Division 1. In

1769-399: The end of the regular season, the team that finishes with the most points is crowned the league champion and is awarded a prize sum of 1,000,000 SEK (approx. US$ 150,000) as a bonus. The six highest-ranked teams by points qualify directly for the playoffs. The four teams ranked 7–10 play a best-of-three series and battle for the two remaining playoff spots. The two lowest-ranked teams after

1830-507: The entire season. The Allsvenskan changed back to the eight top teams from Division 1 only. The best of five final was also abandoned. From here on, the top two teams were promoted directly to Kvalserien, while the teams finishing 3-6 played play-offs for two more spots in Kvalserien. In the 1999–2000 season, Allsvenskan Norra (north) and Södra (south) were inaugurated as a completely new second-level league, consisting of twelve teams each. The top four teams from each of them were promoted for

1891-490: The expense of Djurgården . Rögle became the first HockeyAllsvenskan playoff team in history to promote to Elitserien, a feat which Örebro HK subsequently duplicated in 2013. In Kvalserien for HockeyAllsvenskan , Borås re-qualified for HockeyAllsvenskan and Karlskrona promoted to HockeyAllsvenskan for the first time in the club's history, at the expense of Sundsvall . However, the SIHA did not grant Borås elite license for

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1952-579: The expense of Sundsvall. However, in June the Swedish Ice Hockey Association (SIHA) decided not to grant Björklöven elite license for the upcoming season due to financial concerns and thus Björklöven was relegated to Division 1 and Sundsvall was given a spot in HockeyAllsvenskan next season. With AIK advancing to the Elitserien, and no other team from the area in the league, nor any new one promoted from Division 1, this meant that

2013-470: The first Swedish championships were played, Djurgårdens IF is the most successful team with sixteen championship titles, followed by Brynäs IF with thirteen, as well as Färjestad BK with ten and IK Göta with nine. The league consists of 14 teams; Brynäs IF returned to the SHL after one season in the HockeyAllsvenskan , where they won the 2023–24 title. IK Oskarshamn were relegated to

2074-468: The first season of HockeyAllsvenskan in 2005–06 . In the 2011–12 season , HockeyAllsvenskan had the highest average attendance number of any second-tier league in Europe, averaging 2,606 spectators per game. The following season, 2012–13 , which was strengthened by the NHL lockout , the average attendance increased to 3,227 spectators per game, a 23.8% increase over the 2011–12 season; HockeyAllsvenskan remained

2135-401: The higher seed's home venue. Any given series ends when one team has won more than half the maximum number of games needed to decide the series. The two lowest ranked teams after the regular season have to play in a best-of-seven relegation series called Kvalserien , with the higher-ranked team having home-ice advantage. The winning team remains in the SHL, while the losing team is relegated to

2196-416: The later half of the season to the same kind of league as the previous years of Allsvenskan, but that league was named SuperAllsvenskan . In the 1999–2000 season, no Kvalserien was played for survival in Allsvenskan; instead, the four worst teams in Allsvenskan were relegated to Division 1 (now named Hockeyettan) while the four best teams in Division 1 were promoted to Allsvenskan. For the 2005–06 season,

2257-708: The leaders in the number of SHL regular season games played, with Lundqvist having played 812 games, Sandström 800 and Davidsson 776. The top three point-scoring forwards for the 2021–22 season were Ryan Lasch (66 points), Max Véronneau (60) and Linus Omark (58). Véronneau was the top goal-scorers and thus the Håkan Loob Trophy winner, with 34 goals. The top three point-scorers on defence were Jonathan Pudas (44 points), Joel Persson (39) and Joey LaLeggia (38). The top three goaltenders by save percentage among those who played more than 40% of their team's minutes were Jhonas Enroth (.923), Christoffer Rifalk (.921) and Gustaf Lindvall (.920). The winning team of

2318-403: The league was renamed "Svenska hockeyligan", since this would allow for an easy English translation ("Swedish Hockey League") and a common acronym in the two languages ("SHL"), all of which was considered to be a better brand identity for investment. Each regular season SHL game is composed of three 20-minute periods, with an intermission of a maximum of 18 minutes between periods. If the game

2379-556: The league. The loser in the HockeyAllsvenskan Final faces the winner from the Slutspelsserie in best of three games, and the winner from this stage gets to challenge team 13 from the SHL in best of seven games for their spot in the league. The two last placed teams from HockeyAllsvenskan have to play in the Kvalserien qualification against four Hockeyettan (tier III, formerly Division 1) teams to avoid relegation . For

2440-456: The name Allsvenskan came back, for a league starting after the Christmas and New Year's break of the season. The top two teams of each Division 1 league were promoted to the new Allsvenskan . The top two teams in the Allsvenskan played a best-of-five final for promotion to Elitserien. The teams 3–6 in the Allsvenskan continued with play-offs and possibly Kvalserien for the second open spot in

2501-456: The next round. The final remaining team is crowned the Swedish champion , or Svenska mästare in Swedish, and receives the Le Mat Trophy . The regular season is a round-robin , where each team plays 52 games. Points are awarded for each game, where three points are awarded for winning in regulation time, two points for winning in overtime or shootout, one point for losing in overtime or shootout, and zero points for losing in regulation time. At

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2562-474: The number of teams was decreased from 2x12 to 16 (currently 14). The Norra and Södra sections were merged into a joint league named HockeyAllsvenskan , and the SuperAllsvenskan league was scrapped. HockeyAllsvenskan covers the entire regular season. The league is played as a round-robin tournament where all teams play each other four times during one season, twice at home and twice on the road, for

2623-472: The other team fails to score. During each period, there is one 70-second "power break" used to display commercials; each commercial is played after the first stoppage of play at least 10 minutes into the period. Power breaks do not, however, take place directly after a goal, penalty shot, icing call or during a powerplay. In the event of a tied game during the playoffs, additional 20-minute overtime periods are played perpetually until one team scores. Unlike in

2684-420: The qualification series and thus continued to play in HockeyAllsvenskan for yet another season, while Borås finished second and advanced to HockeyAllsvenskan. In a closely played qualification battle for Elitserien , Rögle advanced to Elitserien at the cost of Mora who finished fourth and was relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan. Huddinge and Hammarby finished last in the league this year and had to play in

2745-428: The qualification series to stay up. Hammarby, however, decided not to play because of economic issues (the team later went bankrupt ). Huddinge did not survive the qualification group which was won by the following season's newcomers Troja/Ljungby and Mariestad . However, in the summer, Nyköping was relegated to Division 1, not meeting the financial demands for being approved to play in the HockeyAllsvenskan (known as

2806-430: The quarterfinals, the six best teams from the regular season and the two winners of the eighth finals are paired seed-wise against each other, with the highest seed playing the lowest-remaining seed. In the semifinals, the teams are re-seeded, with the top remaining seed playing against the lowest remaining seed, and the other two remaining teams pairing off. In the finals, the two remaining teams face each other to determine

2867-448: The regular season have to play in the relegation and promotion series Kvalserien in order to qualify for the next season of the SHL. Before the 2013–14 season , the eight highest-ranked teams qualified for the playoffs. If two or more teams end up tied in points, the seeds are determined by the following tiebreaker format : The SHL playoffs are an elimination tournament consisting of multi-game series where two teams battle to win

2928-613: The regular season, playoff overtime periods are played five-on-five. Only one game in Sweden has ever surpassed four full overtime periods, and no SHL games have surpassed three full overtime periods. The longest SHL game was the first game of the 1997 Swedish Championship semifinals, played on 23 March 1997 between Leksands IF and Färjestad BK . 6,012 spectators saw Andreas Karlsson score the game-winning goal for Leksand after 59 minutes of overtime (almost three full overtime periods). See Longest ice hockey games in Sweden for other games. SHL games are played on an ice hockey rink , which

2989-475: The road—for a total of 36 games. There has been extensive discussion about the number of teams in the SHL. The league had 12 teams for over 20 years since an expansion from 10 teams in 1987, however, there was general agreement among hockey experts that the league needed to be expanded by at least two more teams. They meant that, apart from just the economic situation for some of the clubs, the competition from HockeyAllsvenskan had shown that more teams were needed in

3050-414: The second division. Instead, Örebro took the available spot in HockeyAllsvenskan for the 2009–10 season. In Kvalserien , AIK managed to promote to Elitserien at the expense of Rögle . Sundsvall and Oskarshamn ended up at the bottom of the league table and had to play a qualification series to requalify for HockeyAllsvenskan. There Tingsryd came in second after Oskarshamn , earning promotion at

3111-453: The second-tier league, HockeyAllsvenskan . The champion of HockeyAllsvenskan is promoted to the SHL, taking the place of the relegated team. In the 2010–11 season, the SHL was the world's most evenly matched professional ice hockey league. During the 2011–12 season , the SHL was the most well attended ice hockey league in Europe , averaging 6,385 spectators per game, however in 2013–14 ,

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3172-419: The then-named Elitserien started in 1975–76 as the top level with ten teams, the new second highest-level league was called Division 1 , in four groups. After a couple of years, it was settled into ten teams each in these. Until the 1981–82 season the Division 1 leagues were played over the entire season and followed by play-offs and Kvalserien , the qualification league for the Elitserien. In 1982–83, however,

3233-410: The top-tier league SHL. On 13 March 2014, the SHL and HockeyAllsvenskan announced that the SHL would be expanded to 14 teams, starting in the 2015–16 season . To make this change happen, at least two HockeyAllsvenskan teams would be promoted to the SHL in the 2014–15 season. In 2009, Håkan Loob , the general manager of Färjestad BK , sent a letter to Alexander Medvedev , the owner and president of

3294-485: The two Elitserien teams Södertälje and Rögle managed to keep their spots. Because of the decreased number of teams for the next season, the last-placed team, Mariestad , was directly relegated to the lower division instead of joining the teams placed 14th and 15th who had to play the qualification group against four teams from Division 1. With just one team qualifying for HockeyAllsvenskan this season, neither Nybro (third) nor Huddinge (fourth) succeeded in staying in

3355-418: Was changed this season. Instead of a kind-of-playoff series, a "pre-qualification" system was used. The 4th ranked team from HockeyAllsvenskan started with 4 points, the 5th ranked team with 3 points, the 6th ranked team with 2 points, and the 7th ranked team with 1 point. The teams met each other two times, giving a total of 6 rounds. The 7th ranked team, which was Mora, won the pre-qualification and thus reached

3416-413: Was divided into eight groups from 1957–58 on. The winners of these groups played in two qualification leagues, a northern and a southern one, from which two teams each were promoted. In the 1974–75 season the grouping was changed to have six groups. Each qualification league contained the winners of three groups and one each of the teams on places nine and ten in the sixteen-team league Allsvenskan . When

3477-477: Was expanded to 12 for the 1987–88 season . The league was renamed the SHL in 2013, and in 2014, a number of format changes were announced, including an expansion to 14 teams to be finalized prior to the 2015–16 season , and a new format for promotion from and relegation to HockeyAllsvenskan , the second tier league. Teams from the SHL participate in the IIHF 's annual Champions Hockey League (CHL), competing for

3538-590: Was founded in 1975, and while Swedish ice hockey champions have been crowned through various formats since 1922, the title and the Le Mat Trophy have been awarded to the winner of the SHL playoffs since the league's inaugural 1975–76 season . The league was founded in 1975 as the Elitserien (known in English as the Swedish Elite League or SEL ), and initially featured 10 teams, though this

3599-588: Was introduced in Sweden by the American film director Raoul Le Mat . At this point, the Swedish Championships were held as a separate tournament. It was not until the 1952–53 season that the championship was awarded to the winner of the top-tier hockey league, which at the time was Division I . The inaugural Elitserien season began on 5 October 1975, with the league consisting of 10 teams, each playing one another four times—two at home and two on

3660-728: Was promoted as "Julmatchen" (English: The Christmas game ) and was won by Skellefteå 4–1 in front of 13,452 spectators. Three players in SHL history have been awarded the Golden Puck , as ice hockey player of the year in Sweden, more than once; Anders Andersson , Leif Holmqvist and Peter Forsberg have all won it twice. The top five career scorers in the SHL are Johan Davidsson (561 points), Fredrik Bremberg (501), Håkan Loob (500), Stefan Nilsson (489) and Ove Molin (484). The top three career goal scorers are Håkan Loob (263 goals), Magnus Wernblom (241) and Peter Gradin (214). Joel Lundqvist , Jan Sandström and Johan Davidsson are

3721-470: Was the first season of the HockeyAllsvenskan , the second level of ice hockey in Sweden . The season originally featured 16 teams, but due to Halmstad Hammers HC 's bankruptcy mid-season in November 2005, the season only featured 15 teams. The top four teams qualified for the Kvalserien , with the opportunity to be promoted to the Elitserien . *Due to Halmstad Hammers HC's bankruptcy, the relegation round's third-place team, Hammarby IF , also qualified for

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