The 2013–14

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season began on 12 September 2013 and included 14 teams.

IF Björklöven IF Björklöven (often simply referred to as Löven) is a Swedish professional ice hockey club in Umeå, Västerbotten, in northern Sweden. The club is currently playing in the second-tier league HockeyAllsvenskan as of the 2024-25 season, but h ...

, Swedish champions in 1987, rejoined the league, following a three-year stint in Division 1 (now named Hockeyettan) after their near-bankruptcy in 2010. They replaced

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, who were demoted to Division 1 following a third-place finish in the 2013 HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers. Also new to the league were

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and

Rögle BK Rögle BK (Rögle Bandyklubb) is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Ängelholm that has been playing in the SHL since the 2015–16 season. Rögle has previously played in the SHL (previously named Elitserien) in 1992–1996, 2008–20 ...

, both of whom were demoted from

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(now called the SHL), replacing

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and

Örebro HK Örebro Hockeyklubb, commonly referred to as Örebro HK or Örebro Hockey, (formerly ''HC Örebro 90'') is a Swedish professional ice hockey club located in Örebro. The team is currently playing in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL; formerly Elitse ...

who were promoted up to the SHL in their stead. The 2013–14 HockeyAllsvenskan was covered by media partner

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, who purchased the rights to the league in 2011.Expressen
Viasat storsatsar på Hockeyallsvenskan
2011-05-30. Retrieved 2013-07-02.

Format

In the regular season, each team plays every other team twice at home and twice away, which gives each team a 52-game schedule. Following the regular season, the two teams with the worst records are forced to play a qualification tournament () to avoid demotion to Sweden's third-tier league, Division 1 (now named Hockeyettan). The teams that finished 4th–7th advanced to a double- round robin playoff series, the winner of which joined the top three teams in the SHL qualifiers, where they will have a chance to qualify for promotion to the

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, in competition with the two teams with the worst records from the

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Participating teams

Regular season

Standings

Post-season

Playoffs

A playoff series (, in previous seasons ''Förkvalserien'') was played between the teams ranked fourth through seventh in the regular season. They played a double round-robin tournament, with the winner (

) continuing to the qualifiers for the

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. The teams were allocated points before the start of the playoffs based on their position in the regular season standings.

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were given four points,

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were given three points,

Mora IK Mora IK (or Mora Ishockeyklubb) is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Mora in northern Dalarna. After failing the 2019 SHL qualifiers, Mora has been relegated for play in the second-tier league, HockeyAllsvenskan. Mora has previously p ...

were given two points and

were given one point.

SHL qualifiers

HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers

Teams ranked 13th and 14th after the regular season,

IF Troja/Ljungby IF Troja-Ljungby is an ice hockey club that plays in Ljungby Ljungby () is the Urban areas in Sweden, central locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 inhabitants in 2015. Ljungby was instituted in 1829 as a ''k� ...

and

, were forced to defend their spots in the league in the HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers (). They played a double round-robin tournament against the four playoff winners from the third-tier Division 1. IF Björklöven successfully defended their HockeyAllsvenskan spot while IF Troja/Ljungby were relegated to Division 1 at the expense of

HC Vita Hästen HC Vita Hästen is a Swedish hockey club, based in Norrköping, which was founded following the bankruptcy of a previous club called IK Vita Hästen. The team plays in HockeyTrean, the fifth tier of the Swedish ice hockey system, as of the 202 ...

References

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