Svenska Cupen Svenska Cupen (, ''The Swedish Cup'') is a knockout cup competition in Swedish football and the main Swedish football cup. Svenska Cupen usually refers to the men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also held. Each year 96 teams compe ...

1996–97 was the forty-second season of the main

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

football Cup. The competition was concluded on 29 May 1997 with the

final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: * Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...

held in

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AIK AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sports club''), is a Swedish football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The ...

won 2-1 against

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before an attendance of 9,547 spectators. Group matches introduced in the previous year's competition were abandoned and Division 4 clubs again entered the competition in large numbers.

Preliminary round 1

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Preliminary round 2

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First round

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Second round

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Third round

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Fourth round

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Fifth round

The 8 matches in this round were played between 10 April and 24 April 1997.

Quarter-finals

The 4 matches in this round were played on 8 May 1997.

Semi-finals

The semi-finals were played on 15 May 1997.

Final

The

was played on 29 May 1997 in

Footnotes

References

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