Season 2011 Matches played 240 Start date 2011 Location Sweden Goals scored 685 | Champions Åtvidaberg Top goalscorer Branimir Hrgota (18) Champion Åtvidabergs FF End date October 22, 2011 | |
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Promoted Åtvidaberg
GIF Sundsvall Biggest home win GIF Sundsvall 6–0 Ängelholm
(30 September 2011) Relegated Västerås SK Fotboll, Qviding FIF Similar 2015 Superettan, 2015 Allsvenskan, 2009 Allsvenskan, 2008 Allsvenskan | ||
The 2011 Superettan was the 11th season of Sweden's second-tier football league. The season began on 9 April 2011 and ended on 22 October 2011.
Contents
The top two teams qualified directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third played a play-off against the fourteenth from Allsvenskan to decide who qualified to play in Allsvenskan 2012. The bottom two teams qualified directly for relegation to Division 1, the thirteenth and the fourteenth played a play-off against the numbers two from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who qualified to play in Superettan 2012.
Teams
A total of sixteen teams contested the league, including eleven sides from the 2010 season, two relegated teams from 2010 Allsvenskan, two promoted teams from Division 1 and Qviding FIF who replaced Örgryte IS after they were automatically relegated to Division 1 before the start of the new season due to bankruptcy.
FC Trollhättan and Väsby United were relegated at the end of the 2010 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by Division 1 Norra champions Västerås SK and Division 1 Södra champions IFK Värnamo.
Jönköpings Södra IF and Östers IF both retained their Superettan spots after defeating their Division 1 opponents in a relegation/promotion playoff.
Stadia and locations
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
League table
Source: svenskfotboll.se
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Brage won 7–3 on aggregate.
IFK Värnamo won 3–0 on aggregate.
Results
Source: svenskfotboll.se (Swedish)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top goalkeepers
(Minimum of 10 games played)