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 ...

2010 was the 55th season of the main

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Cup.

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 ...

were the defending champions.

Preliminary round

52 teams from

Division 1 2010 The 2010 Division 1 was contested by 28 teams divided into two groups geographically. Västerås SK and IFK Värnamo won their respective groups and were thereby qualified for play in the 2011 Superettan. Qviding FIF who finished second in the so ...

or lower of the Swedish league pyramid competed in this round. !colspan="3", 3 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 6 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 11 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 13 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 17 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 19 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 20 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 21 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 23 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 24 March 2010

Round 1

Twelve teams from Division 1 2010 or lower, two of the three teams which earned promotion to

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(not

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) and the bottom eight teams from 2009 Superettan entered in this round. They were joined by the 26 preliminary round winners. !colspan="3", 18 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 27 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 28 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 30 March 2010 , - !colspan="3", 31 March 2010

Round 2

Two demoted teams from

2009 Allsvenskan Allsvenskan 2009, part of the 2009 Swedish football season, was the 85th Allsvenskan season played. AIK AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sp ...

and six teams ranked 3rd through 8th in 2009 Superettan entered in this round, joining 24 winners from Round 1. !colspan="3", 7 April 2010 , - !colspan="3", 9 April 2010 , - !colspan="3", 11 April 2010 , - !colspan="3", 14 April 2010 , - !colspan="3", 17 April 2010 , - !colspan="3", 18 April 2010 , - !colspan="3", 21 April 2010 , - !colspan="3", 22 April 2010

Round 3

Sixteen teams from

2010 Allsvenskan The 2010 Allsvenskan, part of the 2010 Swedish football season, was the 86th Allsvenskan season. It began on 13 March 2010 and ended on 7 November 2010. AIK were the defending champions. Malmö FF secured their 16th title in the last round after ...

entered in this round, and joined the 16 winners of Round 2. !colspan="3", 18 May 2010 , - !colspan="3", 19 May 2010 , - !colspan="3", 25 May 2010 , - !colspan="3", 3 June 2010

Round 4

The sixteen winning teams from round 3. !colspan="3", 27 June 2010 , - !colspan="3", 1 July 2010 , - !colspan="3", 2 July 2010 , - !colspan="3", 4 July 2010 , - !colspan="3", 5 July 2010

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

External links

Official site
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