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2016 Superettan

Superettan
Season 2016
Champions IK Sirius
Promoted IK Sirius
AFC United
Halmstads BK
Relegated Assyriska FF
Ljungskile SK
Ängelholms FF
Matches played 240
Goals scored 618 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer Shkodran Maholli (15 goals)
Biggest home win GAIS 7–0 Ängelholms FF (22 May 2016)
Biggest away win Ängelholms FF 0–4 IFK Värnamo (1 May 2016)
Highest scoring IK Sirius 5–3 Assyriska FF (24 July 2016)
Longest winning run 7 matches
IK Sirius
Longest unbeaten run 11 matches
AFC United
Longest winless run 15 matches
Ängelholms FF
Longest losing run 6 matches
Ljungskile SK
Highest attendance 11,690
GAIS 0–0 Örgryte IS (30 April 2016)
Lowest attendance 181
AFC United 5–0 IFK Värnamo (7 August 2016)
Total attendance 414,399
Average attendance 1,727
2015
2017
Promotion to Allsvenskan
Promotion play-offs
Relegation play-offs
Relegation to Division 1

The 2016 Superettan, part of the 2016 Swedish football season, will be the 16th season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football league in its current format. The 2016 fixtures were released in December 2015. The season started in April 2016 and will end in November 2016.

A total of 16 teams will contest the league.

A total of 16 teams contest the league. The top two teams qualify directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third has to play a play-off against the fourteenth team from Allsvenskan to decide who will play in Allsvenskan 2017. The bottom two teams qualified directly for relegation to Division 1, the thirteenth and the fourteenth has to play a play-off against the numbers two teams from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who will play in Superettan 2017.

2015-champions Jönköpings Södra IF and runner-up Östersunds FK were promoted to the Allsvenskan at the end of the 2015 season. They were replaced by Halmstads BK and Åtvidabergs FF. Utsiktens BK and IF Brommapojkarna were relegated at the end of the 2015 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by Division 1 Norra champions Dalkurd FF and Division 1 Södra champions Trelleborgs FF. Mjällby AIF was also relegated after losing the relegation play-offs to Division 1 Södra runner-up Örgryte IS.

The 13th-placed and 14th-placed teams of Superettan meets the two runners-up from 2016 Division 1 (Norra and Södra) in Two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis with the team from Superettan finishing at home.


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