2020 Superettan

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Superettan
Season2020
ChampionsHalmstads BK
PromotedHalmstads BK
Degerfors IF
RelegatedDalkurd FF
Umeå FC
Ljungskile SK
Top goalscorerPontus Engblom (20 goals)
Biggest home winNorrby IF 6–0 Umeå FC
(21 November 2020)
Biggest away winUmeå FC 0–6 Degerfors IF
(21 September 2020)
GIF Sundsvall 0–6 Halmstads BK
(21 November 2020)
Highest scoringGIF Sundsvall 5–2 Ljungskile SK
(7 August 2020)
Degerfors IF 2–5 GIF Sundsvall
(28 November 2020)
Longest winning run9 matches
Halmstads BK[1]
Longest unbeaten run11 matches
Degerfors IF
Akropolis IF
Longest winless run10 matches
GAIS
Longest losing run5 matches
GIF Sundsvall
Örgryte IS
← 2019
2021 →

The 2020 Superettan was part of the 2020 Swedish football season, and the 21st season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football division in its current format. A total of 16 teams contest the league.

Teams[edit]

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[edit]

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Locations of the 2020 Superettan teams
Team Location Stadium Stadium capacity[note 1]
AFC Eskilstuna Eskilstuna Tunavallen 7,800
Akropolis IF Spånga Grimsta IP 5,000
Dalkurd FF Uppsala Nya Studenternas 10,000
Degerfors IF Degerfors Stora Valla 12,500
GAIS Gothenburg Gamla Ullevi 18,416[3]
GIF Sundsvall Sundsvall Idrottsparken[note 2] 7,700
Halmstads BK Halmstad Örjans Vall 10,873
IK Brage Borlänge Domnarvsvallen 6,500
Jönköpings Södra IF Jönköping Stadsparksvallen 5,500
Ljungskile SK Ljungskile Skarsjövallen 8,000
Norrby IF Borås Borås Arena 17,800
Trelleborgs FF Trelleborg Vångavallen 7,000[4]
Umeå FC Umeå Gammliavallen[note 3] 10,000
Västerås SK Västerås Iver Arena 7,000
Örgryte IS Gothenburg Gamla Ullevi 18,416[3]
Östers IF Växjö Visma Arena 12,000
  1. ^ According to each club information page at the Swedish Football Association website for Allsvenskan.[2]
  2. ^ Known as NP3 Arena for sponsorship reasons.
  3. ^ Known as Umeå Energi Arena for sponsorship reasons.

League table[edit]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 Halmstads BK (C, P) 30 21 5 4 61 18 +43 68 Promotion to Allsvenskan
2 Degerfors IF (P) 30 19 6 5 64 30 +34 63
3 Jönköpings Södra IF 30 18 5 7 52 34 +18 59 Qualification to promotion play-offs
4 Östers IF 30 15 6 9 41 36 +5 51
5 Akropolis IF 30 10 15 5 44 39 +5 45
6 GIF Sundsvall 30 12 7 11 53 48 +5 43
7 Västerås SK 30 11 6 13 40 44 −4 39
8 IK Brage 30 11 6 13 38 44 −6 39
9 AFC Eskilstuna 30 11 4 15 36 49 −13 37
10 GAIS 30 9 9 12 30 41 −11 36
11 Norrby IF 30 8 10 12 39 41 −2 34
12 Örgryte IS 30 9 6 15 34 43 −9 33
13 Trelleborgs FF (O) 30 8 8 14 33 41 −8 32 Qualification to relegation play-offs
14 Dalkurd FF (R) 30 6 11 13 33 42 −9 29
15 Umeå FC (R) 30 5 12 13 25 47 −22 27 Relegation to Ettan
16 Ljungskile SK (R) 30 5 8 17 24 50 −26 23
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[edit]

The 13th-placed and 14th-placed teams of Superettan met the two runners-up from 2020 Division 1 (Norra and Södra) in two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis with the teams from Superettan finishing at home.

Landskrona BoIS2–0Dalkurd FF
 Report
Referee: Per Melin
Dalkurd FF1–1Landskrona BoIS
 Report
Referee: Victor Wolf

Landskrona BoIS won 3–1 on aggregate.

IF Brommapojkarna1–1Trelleborgs FF
 Report
Referee: Granit Maqedonci
Trelleborgs FF1–1 (a.e.t.)IF Brommapojkarna
 Report
Penalties
 4–1
Referee: Fredrik Klitte

2–2 on aggregate. Trelleborgs FF won 4–1 on penalties.

Positions by round[edit]

Team ╲ Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
Halmstads BK1273332122222222222222222222111
Degerfors IF148443211111111111111111111222
Jönköpings Södra IF1481371012876543554333333333333333
Östers IF4222245587810976555544444444444
Akropolis IF81261189644655443444455555666555
GIF Sundsvall211111333334335688767766555666
Västerås SK757696911111412121111121111111212131298888877
IK Brage1615121465465466767766676677777788
AFC Eskilstuna13161616161616151515151616161516161515141110141013131413109
GAIS511141571011121213131313131414121210988891099111110
Norrby IF11645577878771010810999101011131412121312911
Örgryte IS3101581113141414119989108778899101191112101312
Trelleborgs FF691113148109991186899101011111214121314141191213
Dalkurd FF93591211121313101011121211121313131314131112111010141414
Umeå FC15139101314131010121414141413131414141515151515151515151515
Ljungskile SK101410121515151616161615151516151516161616161616161616161616
Promotion to Allsvenskan
Promotion play-offs
Relegation play-offs
Relegation to Division 1
Source: everysport.com

Results[edit]

Home \ Away AKR BRA DAL DEG ESK GAI GIF HAL JÖN LJU NOR TRE UME VÄS ÖRG ÖST
Akropolis 2–1 0–0 1–1 3–2 2–2 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–3 2–2 3–3 2–0 2–0 2–2
Brage 1–1 2–1 0–0 1–3 2–1 1–2 0–0 1–4 0–1 1–1 3–0 0–1 0–3 3–2 1–2
Dalkurd 1–1 1–1 1–2 5–0 0–1 1–3 1–1 1–1 2–0 2–2 0–1 0–0 3–2 0–0 1–1
Degerfors 3–2 4–1 2–1 5–0 2–1 2–5 0–2 4–2 4–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 4–1 2–0 3–1
Eskilstuna 1–2 1–2 0–1 2–0 2–0 3–2 0–3 3–2 0–0 1–0 3–2 1–3 0–1 1–0 1–1
GAIS 1–1 0–1 2–1 0–0 2–0 3–1 1–3 1–0 1–1 3–3 2–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–1
GIF Sundsvall 1–2 0–1 1–1 1–4 2–3 3–0 0–6 3–2 5–2 0–0 2–1 3–1 3–1 4–1 1–2
Halmstad 2–3 2–0 4–0 1–4 2–1 0–0 1–0 3–0 2–0 3–0 0–1 4–0 2–1 1–0 2–0
Jönköpings Södra 3–1 2–0 2–1 0–1 3–0 1–0 3–3 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 4–1
Ljungskile 2–1 1–3 2–2 0–3 2–1 1–2 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–1 2–0 0–0 0–2 2–3 0–2
Norrby 1–1 1–4 2–0 0–2 0–0 3–0 0–1 0–2 1–2 2–2 1–3 6–0 3–1 2–0 0–2
Trelleborg 1–1 0–1 4–1 1–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–4 0–2 1–0 2–2 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–1
Umeå 1–1 1–1 1–2 0–6 0–3 3–0 1–0 0–1 1–2 3–1 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–2 0–0
Västerås 2–1 2–1 1–0 2–2 0–1 2–2 3–2 2–3 2–2 2–1 1–2 3–1 2–0 0–3 2–1
Örgryte 0–1 1–3 1–2 1–1 2–1 0–2 0–2 0–3 2–0 4–0 2–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 4–1
Öster 0–1 4–2 2–1 2–0 2–1 4–1 1–1 0–3 1–3 0–1 2–1 1–0 2–0 0–0 2–0
Source: svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics[edit]

Top scorers[edit]

As of 5 December 2020[5]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Sweden Pontus Engblom GIF Sundsvall 20
2 Sweden Johan Bertilsson Degerfors IF 19
3 Sweden Victor Edvardsen Degerfors IF 15
4 Nigeria Samuel Nnamani AFC Eskilstuna 13
Sweden Rasmus Wiedesheim-Paul Halmstads BK
6 Sweden Mikael Boman Halmstads BK 12
7 Sweden Edin Hamidović Jönköpings Södra IF 11
8 Sweden Villiam Dahlström Degerfors IF 10

Hat-tricks[edit]

Player For Against Result Date
Sweden Rasmus Wiedesheim-Paul Halmstads BK Jönköpings Södra IF 3–0 27 June 2020
Sweden Anton Lundin IK Brage Ljungskile SK 1–3 8 July 2020
Ghana Fatawu Safiu Trelleborgs FF Dalkurd FF 4–1 25 July 2020
Sweden Johan Bertilsson Degerfors IF Östers IF 3–1 29 July 2020
Sweden Robin Strömberg Norrby IF Västerås SK 3–1 13 September 2020
Sweden Rasmus Wiedesheim-Paul Halmstads BK Umeå FC 4–0 16 September 2020
Sweden Johan Bertilsson Degerfors IF Umeå FC 0–6 21 September 2020
The Gambia Bubacarr Jobe Örgryte IS Östers IF 4–1 24 October 2020

Discipline[edit]

Player[edit]

  • Most red cards: 2
    • Sweden Linus Dahl (Ljungskile)

Club[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Superettan streaks and sequences". soccerstats.com. soccerstats.com. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Allsvenskan" (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b Note: Gamla Ullevi has a capacity of 15,000 sitting and 3,416 standing for a total capacity of 18,416.
  4. ^ "Vångavallen" (in Swedish). Trelleborgs FF. Archived from the original on 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
  5. ^ a b "Spelarstatistik - Svensk fotboll". The Swedish Football Association (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 20 June 2020.

External links[edit]

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