Season | 2012 |
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Champions | Östers IF |
Promoted |
Östers IF IF Brommapojkarna Halmstads BK |
Relegated |
Trelleborgs FF Umeå FC |
Matches played | 240 |
Goals scored | 722 (3.01 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Pablo Piñones Arce (18) |
Biggest home win |
Degerfors IF 6–1 IFK Värnamo IFK Värnamo 5–0 Umeå FC |
Biggest away win |
Umeå FC 0–4 Östers IF Umeå FC 0–4 Halmstads BK IFK Värnamo 1–5 Jönköpings Södra IF |
Highest scoring | IK Brage 4–4 Varbergs BoIS FC |
Highest attendance | 12,173 Östers IF 1–1 IFK Värnamo |
Lowest attendance | 64 Ljungskile SK 1–1 Ängelholms FF |
Average attendance | 2,456 |
← 2011
2013 →
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Promotion to Allsvenskan | |
Promotion play-offs | |
Relegation play-offs | |
Relegation to Division 1 |
The 2012 Superettan, part of the 2012 Swedish football season, was the 12th season of Sweden's second-tier football league in its current format. The 2012 fixtures were released on 9 December 2011. The season began on 6 April 2012 and ended on 3 November 2012.
A total of 16 teams contested the league, 12 returning from the 2011 season, two relegated from Allsvenskan and two promoted from Division 1. The top two teams qualified directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third had to play a play-off against the fourteenth from Allsvenskan to decide who will play in Allsvenskan 2013. The bottom two teams qualified directly for relegation to Division 1, the thirteenth and the fourteenth had to play a play-off against the numbers two from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who will play in Superettan 2013.
2011-champions Åtvidabergs FF and runner-up GIF Sundsvall were promoted to the Allsvenskan at the end of the 2011 season. They were replaced by Halmstads BK and Trelleborgs FF. Västerås SK and Qviding FIF were relegated at the end of the 2011 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by Division 1 Norra champions Umeå FC and Division 1 Södra champions Varbergs BoIS.