The combination Allsvenskan ( sv, Allsvenskan i bandy) and Elitserien ( sv, Elitserien i bandy) was earlier the highest level of bandy in

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contested annually between

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clubs. The Allsvenskan was split into two regional divisions: the Allsvenskan Norra (north) and the Allsvenskan Södra (south), in which the teams played during the autumn. After the Christmas holiday the Allsvenskan was split into Elitserien (top four teams in each group) and Superallsvenskan (last four teams in each group). The season ended in March with a final on

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like the

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. Starting with the 2007–08 season, the league structure was remade.

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 ...

became the name of the second highest level with the national

Elitserien Elitserien (literally, "the Elite League") is the name of several Swedish nationwide sport leagues. In many sports, Elitserien is the highest league, with the second highest named Allsvenskan. Elitserien leagues at present: * Elitserien (badmint ...

as the highest level.

Season structure

Each division contained eight sides. Each team played the other teams in their division twice, one at home the other away. The teams finishing in the top four of each division qualified for the "Elitserien". Teams finishing 5th to 8th in their groups went into the Superallsvenskan.

Teams

The teams for the last season (2006–07) were the following:

Allsvenskan Norra

* Bollnäs GIF, Bollnäs * Broberg/Söderhamn Bandy, Söderhamn * Edsbyns IF, Edsbyn *

Falu BS Falu Bandysällskap, ''Falu BS'', is a bandy club from Falun in Sweden. Falu BS was founded as ''Falu Bollsällskap'' on 10 December 1935, by merging Falu BK, Holmens IF, Falu SK and IFK Falun. All these clubs were playing bandy. In 1936 ...

, Falun * Ljusdals BK, Ljusdal * Sandvikens AIK, Sandviken * IK Sirius, Uppsala *

Tillberga IK Tillberga IK is a sports club in Tillberga in Västerås Municipality, Sweden. Tillberga IK was founded on 8 February 1930 and had a number of sections within one club until 1998. At the annual meeting that year, it was decided to split the club ...

, Tillberga

Allsvenskan Södra

BS BolticGöta BS BolticGöta, or for short "BG", is a bandy club in Karlstad, Sweden. The two major bandy clubs in Karlstad, IF Boltic and IF Göta, was merged in the year 2000 and founded ''Föreningen Bandysällskapet BolticGöta Karlstad'', in a shorter ...

, Karlstad *

Hammarby IF Hammarby Idrottsförening ("Hammarby Sports Club"), commonly known as Hammarby IF or simply Hammarby ( or, especially locally, ), is a Swedish sports club located in Stockholm, with a number of member organizations active in a variety of differe ...

, Stockholm *

IFK Motala IFK Motala is a sports club in Motala Motala () is a locality and the seat of Motala Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 29,823 inhabitants (41,956 in the entire municipality) in 2010. It is the third largest city of Östergötland, ...

, Motala * Vetlanda BK, Vetlanda * Villa Lidköping BK, Lidköping * IFK Vänersborg, Vänersborg * Västerås SK, Västerås * Örebro SK, Örebro

Teams by number of seasons

Top goalscorers

Topscorers in the league excluding play-offs

Past seasons

* Allsvenskan 2005/06 * Allsvenskan 2006/07

References

External links

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