Swedish bandy champions () is a title held by the winners of the final of the highest Swedish

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league played each year, Elitserien. The final is called ''Svenska bandyfinalen'' ("Swedish Bandy Final") and is played in March. From the 2007–08 season, Saturday replaced Sunday as the final date, but was changed back to Sunday again and again to Saturday in 2015 in 2010. In 2009

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showed it for the 1st time.

History

The first final was held in 1907, when IFK Uppsala beat IFK Gävle with 4–1 in Boulognerskogen,

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. In 1912 two winners were declared, because no replay of the tied final could be played due to the weather.

Venue

The arena with the most finals is

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(50 times),

Söderstadion Söderstadion () was a football and bandy stadium in Stockholm, Sweden. It was opened in 1966 and closed in 2013, being replaced by nearby Tele2 Arena. Söderstadion had a capacity of 12,800 depending on usage. A record attendance of 22,000 was ...

(23) and

Studenternas IP Studenternas IP is a multi-use stadium in Uppsala, Sweden and the home arena for the football club IK Sirius Fotboll on the men's side and IK Uppsala Fotboll on the women's and in bandy for IK Sirius in Elitserien and several other bandy teams ...

(17). Other venues are Rocklunda IP in

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, Idrottsparken in

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, the bay of

Brunnsviken Brunnsviken (literally ''The Bay of Wells'') is a by brackish lake in Sweden located on the boundary between Solna Municipality and Stockholm Municipality, connecting to Lilla Värtan through Ålkistan. It has a perimeter of . Around Brunnsvi ...

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, accessed 28 August 2013 It w ...

and

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. Until the mid-20th Century, bandy was often played on naturally frozen lakes. The final was played on lakes eight times, 1907, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1934 (the replay), 1943 (the replay), and 1949. From 1991 to 2012, all men's finals have been held on

Uppsala Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Loc ...

. The final weekend starts with finals for youth's, junior's and women's team on Saturday and the men's final on Sunday. From 2013 the new venue was

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. In 2013 and 2014 the final was played at

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and from 2015 it was played at

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. On 8 May 2017, the it was announced that the finals would be moved back to Studenternas IP. In September 2023, the

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decided that the 2024 men's, women's and youth finals would be played in the

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. In June 2024, the Swedish Bandy Association and

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agreed that even 2024 and 2025 finals would be played in Västerås. The attendance record of the finals is from March 16, 2013, when 38,474 people saw

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against

Sandvikens AIK Sandvikens AIK (commonly known as SAIK) a sports club in Sandviken, Sweden. The bandy section plays its home games in the Göransson Arena in Sandviken. They play in a black outfit. History Sandvikens AIK was founded on 16 March 1901. Originall ...

Winners throughout the years

Men

;Notes

Women

"Svenska mästare – Damer".
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Title champions

Men's titles per club

Women's titles per club

Men's titles per town

;Notes AIK moved from Stockholm to Solna in the 1930s, but all titles were taken before the move.

Women's titles per town

Men's and women's titles the same year

References

External links

Images from the Swedish national bandy championship finals at på Studenternas IP i UppsalaSwedish bandy national championship finals at SVT's open archive

Svenska Bandyförbundet - ''Herrfinaler''Svenska Bandyförbundet - ''Damfinaler''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Swedish Bandy Champions Champions Elitserien (bandy) lists

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Lists of national champions in Sweden