Number of teams 14 | TV partner(s) TV4 Group | |
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Duration 2016 – 2017 (regular season) | ||
The 2016–17 HockeyAllsvenskan season is the 12th season since the second tier of ice hockey in Sweden was renamed. The league features 14 teams, each playing each other four times, for a total of 52 regular season games.
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Finals
In the HockeyAllsvenskan finals (Swedish: HockeyAllsvenska finalen), the first and second place teams from the regular season will meet in a best-of-five series, where the winner will advance to the SHL qualifiers, and the losing team will continue to a playoff to the SHL qualifiers. The matches will be held on 5 March, 7 March, 9 March, and then 11 March and 13 March if necessary.
HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs
In the HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs (Swedish: Slutspelsserien), teams 3–8 meet in a single-round robin tournament. Teams 3–5 will have an extra game on home-ice. The matches will be held on 6–14 March. Teams will also start with bonus points based on their position in the regular season standings. Team 3 will begin with three points, team 4 with two points, and team 5 with one point.
The winner of the group advances to the playoff to the SHL qualifiers.
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Playoff to the SHL qualifiers
In the playoff to the SHL qualifiers (Swedish: Play Off inför direktkval till SHL), the losing team from the HockeyAllsvenskan finals meets the winning team from the HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs in a best-of-three series that will be played 16 March, 18 March and 20 March. The winning team advances to the SHL qualifiers.
SHL qualifiers
In the SHL qualifiers (Swedish: Direktkval till SHL), the winners of the HockeyAllsvenskan finals and the playoff to the SHL qualifiers are paired against teams 13 and 14 from the 2016–17 SHL season. Each pair plays a best-of-seven series, with the winner qualifying for play in the 2017–18 SHL season, and the loser playing in the 2017–18 HockeyAllsvenskan season. These series began on 22 and 23 March, and will be completed by 4 April at the latest.
HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers
Teams 13 and 14 (Södertälje) from the regular season, will be forced to defend their spots in HockeyAllsvenskan in the HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers (Swedish: Kvalserien till HockeyAllsvenskan). Joining the two HockeyAllsvenskan teams will be four challengers from third-tier league Hockeyettan, the winner of AllEttan North (Huddinge IK), the winner of AllEttan South (IF Troja/Ljungby), and the two surviving teams from the Hockeyettan playoffs.