The 2020 season was Hammarby Fotboll's 105th in existence, their 51st season in

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

and their 6th consecutive season in the league. They competed in

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and

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during the year. League play was planned to start in early April, but was postponed until June due to concerns over the

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Stefan Billborn Stefan Bo Anders Billborn (born 15 November 1972) is a Swedish football manager who is the head coach of Sarpsborg 08 in the Norwegian Eliteserien. Coaching career Early career Billborn started his managerial career in 1989, at age 17, by coac ...

made his third season as manager.

Summary

In a season postponed due to the

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, the side disappointedly finished 8th in the Allsvenskan table. The club won 3–0 against Puskás Akadémia in the first round of the

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, but was eliminated from the tournament in the second round against

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through a 0–3 loss.

Players

Squad information

Transfers

In

Out

Player statistics

Appearances and goals

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Club

Coaching staff

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Other information

Pre-season and friendlies

Friendlies

Competitions

Allsvenskan

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Kickoff times are in (

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) unless stated otherwise.

=June

=July

=August

=September

=October

=November

=December

Svenska Cupen

2019–20

:''The tournament continued from the 2019 season.'' Kickoff times are in

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=Group 3

=Knockout stage

2020–21

:''The tournament continues into the 2021 season.''

=Qualification stage

UEFA Europa League

Kickoff times are in

unless stated otherwise.

2020–21

= Qualifying phase and play-off round

First qualifying round

Second qualifying round

Footnotes

References

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Hammarby Fotboll Hammarby IF Fotbollförening, more commonly known as Hammarby Fotboll or Hammarby ( or, especially locally, ), is a Swedish football club from Stockholm founded in 1915. The club is based at Tele2 Arena in Johanneshov but founded in the neig ...