The 2023–24 HockeyAllsvenskan season was the 19th season of

HockeyAllsvenskan HockeyAllsvenskan (previously Allsvenskan and SuperAllsvenskan) is a professional ice hockey sports league, league, and the second-highest league in the Swedish ice hockey system, after the Swedish Hockey League, SHL. Since the 2009–10 season, t ...

, the second-highest professional

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league in Sweden. The season consists of 14 teams playing a regular season in which each team played each other team four times—twice at home and twice away. The regular season is followed by a series of

promotion and relegation Promotion and relegation is used by sports leagues as a process where teams can move up and down among divisions in a league system, based on their performance over a season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are sometimes call ...

tournaments, with the teams finishing first through tenth participating in promotion playoffs, and those finishing thirteenth and fourteenth forced to requalify to avoid relegation to

Hockeyettan Hockeyettan is the third tier of ice hockey in Sweden. As of the 2015–16 season, the league consists of 39 teams divided geographically into four groups. Hockeyettan operates a system of promotion and relegation with HockeyAllsvenskan and D ...

. For the 2023–24 season, there were three team movements.

Modo Hockey Modo Hockey (or MoDo with uppercase letters) is a professional ice hockey club in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The team currently plays in Sweden's second-tier league HockeyAllsvenskan after losing to HV71 after the play out following the 2024/25 se ...

was promoted to the SHL as reigning 2023 HockeyAllsvenskan champions. Despite losing the play-out,

Västerviks IK Västerviks Ishockeyklubb (English language, English: ''Vasterviks Ice hockey club'') – commonly known as Västerviks IK or VIK – is a Professional sports, professional ice hockey team based in Västervik, Sweden. They currently play in the s ...

remained in the league as

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 ...

was forced out due to a club bankruptcy.

Nybro Vikings The Nybro Vikings are an ice-hockey club from Nybro in Sweden. The team played in the highest league in Sweden for two seasons 1968–69 and 1969–70 and the second highest league during the 70s and 80s and again for seven years from 2002 to ...

and Kalmar HC were moved up from Hockeyettan.

Participating teams

Regular season

Standings

Post-season

Playoff bracket

Eighth-finals

Teams 7–10 from the regular season will play

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playoff series, where team 7 face team 10 and team 8 face team 9. In each series the higher-seeded team have home-ice advantage, playing at home for game 2 (plus 3 if necessary) while the lower-seeded team play at home for game 1. The winners move on to the

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(7) BIK Karlskoga vs. (10) Kalmar HC

(8) Nybro Vikings vs. (9) Almtuna IS

Quarterfinals

Teams 1–6 from the regular season, along with the winners of the eighth-finals, will play

best-of-seven There are a number of formats used in various levels of competition in sports and games to determine an overall champion. Some of the most common are the ''single elimination'', the ''best-of-'' series, the ''total points series'' more commonly kn ...

series, with the winners moving on to the

semifinals A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, w ...

. The highest-seeded team chose whether to play the second-lowest seed or the lowest seed. In each series the higher-seeded team has home-ice advantage, playing at home for games 1 and 2 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary) while the lower-seeded team plays at home for games 3 and 4 (plus 6 if necessary) The higher-seeded half of the teams chose their opponents, with the highest-seeded remaining team choosing at each step.

(1) Brynäs IF vs. (8) Nybro Vikings

(2) Södertälje SK vs. (7) BIK Karlskoga

(3) AIK vs. (5) Mora IK

(4) Djurgårdens IF vs. (6) IF Björklöven

Semifinals

The winners of the quarterfinals play best-of-seven series, with the winners moving on to the

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(1) Brynäs IF vs. (7) BIK Karlskoga

(4) Djurgårdens IF vs. (5) Mora IK

Finals

The winners of the semifinals will play a best-of-seven series, with the winner being promoted to the

Swedish Hockey League The Swedish Hockey League (SHL; ) is a professional ice hockey league in Sweden and the highest level of the ice hockey in Sweden, Swedish ice hockey system. The league currently consists of 14 teams. The league was founded in 1975, and while Li ...

(SHL). The higher-seeded team has home-ice advantage, playing at home for games 1 and 2 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary) while the lower-seeded team play at home for games 3 and 4 (plus 6 if necessary).

(1) Brynäs IF vs. (4) Djurgårdens IF

Play Out

Teams 13 and 14 from the regular season will play a best-of-seven series, with the winner remaining in HockeyAllsvenskan and the loser being relegated to

. The higher-seeded team has home-ice advantage, playing at home for games 1 and 2 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary) while the lower-seeded team plays at home for games 3 and 4 (plus 6 if necessary).

(13) Östersunds IK vs. (14) Västerviks IK

References

External links

Official site
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HockeyAllsvenskan seasons