Division 1

Founded	2006 (2006)
Country	Sweden
Confederation	UEFA
Divisions	2
Number of teams	32
Level on pyramid	3
Promotion to	Superettan
Relegation to	Division 2
Current champions	Sandvikens IF (North) IK Oddevold (South)
Website	ettanfotboll.se
Current: 2023 Ettan

Ettan Fotboll, or simply Ettan (English: the one), which also is its common name in everyday speech, is the third level in the Swedish football league system and consists of 32 Swedish football teams. It was formerly simply known as Division 1. Division 1 was the second tier from 1987 to 1999, but was replaced by Superettan in 2000. It was reestablished for the 2006 season as the third tier below Superettan.

History

The old Division 1 replaced Division 2 as the second highest level in 1987 and consisted of two separate leagues with 14 teams each, Norra (Northern) and Södra (Southern), except for the 1991 and 1992 seasons which comprised 32 teams in four leagues, adding Östra (Eastern) and Västra (Western). As of the 2018 season, both Norra and Södra leagues of Ettan are composed of 16 clubs, similar to Allsvenskan and Superettan.^[1] And the league is focus for developing young stars.

The competition

There are 32 clubs in Ettan, divided in two groups of 16 teams each representing Northern and Southern Sweden. During the course of a season (starting in April and ending in November) each club plays the others twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents, for a total of 30 games. At the end of each season the three lowest placed teams of each group are relegated to Division 2 and the six winning teams from the six Division 2 leagues are promoted in their place. Furthermore, the fourth lowest placed team in each group plays a promotion/relegation play-off against the winner of one of the two Division 2 runner-up play-offs. The top team in each Ettan group is promoted to Superettan and the two lowest placed teams from Superettan are relegated in their place. The second placed teams in each Ettan group plays a promotion/relegation play-off against the third and fourth lowest teams in Superettan.^[2]

Current clubs (2021 season)

Stadia and locations

Hammarby TFF
Sollentuna FK
Vasalunds IF

Bodens BK

IF Karlstad

BK Forward
Karlslunds IF
Rynninge IK

Gefle IF

Linköping City

Nyköpings BIS

Sandvikens IF

Sylvia

Team TG
Umeå FC

Assyriska IK

Eskilsminne

Kristianstad FC

Landskrona

Lindome

Ljungskile

Lunds BK
Torns IF

Oddevold

Oskarshamns AIK

Skövde

Trollhättan

Tvååkers

Utsiktens

Värnamo

Åtvidabergs FF

Locations of the 2021 Ettan clubs
Red: Ettan Norra; Green: Ettan Södra

Norra

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium capacity1
Bodens BK	Boden	Boden Arena	5,300
Dalkurd FF	Uppsala	Nya Studenternas IP	10,000
Hammarby Talang FF	Stockholm	Hammarby IP	3,700
IF Karlstad	Karlstad	Tingvalla IP	10,000
IF Sylvia	Norrköping	PlatinumCars Arena	17,000
IFK Stocksund	Danderyd	Jurek Arena Danderyd	1,000
Motala AIF	Motala	Motala Idrottspark	8,500
Piteå IF	Piteå	LF Arena	6,000
Sandvikens IF	Sandviken	Jernvallen	7,000
Sollentuna FK	Sollentuna	Sollentunavallen	4,500
FC Stockholm Internazionale	Stockholm	Kristinebergs IP	1,000
Täby FK	Täby	Tibblevallen	1,000
Umeå FC	Umeå	Umeå Energi Arena	10,000
Nordic United FC	Södertälje	Södertälje Fotbollsarena	6,400
Vasalunds IF	Solna	Skytteholms IP	5,200
Örebro Syrianska IF	Örebro	Örnsro IP	1,000

Östgötaporten in Norrköping.

Umeå Energi Arena in Umeå.

Södra

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium capacity1
Assyriska Turabdin IK	Jönköping	Rosenlunds IP	1,500
IFK Malmö	Malmö	Malmö IP	7,600
Lindome GIF	Lindome	Lindevi IP	1,500
FC Linköping City	Linköping	Linköping Arena	8,300
Ljungskile SK	Ljungskile	Skarsjövallen	8,000
Lunds BK	Lund	Klostergårdens IP	8,560
Oskarshamns AIK	Oskarshamn	Arena Oskarshamn	2,000
Qviding FIF	Gothenburg	Valhalla IP	4,000
Skövde AIK	Skövde	Södermalms IP	4,500
Torns IF	Stångby	Tornvallen	1,500
FC Trollhättan	Trollhättan	Edsborgs IP	5,100
Tvååkers IF	Tvååker	Övrevi IP	1,000
Utsiktens BK	Gothenburg	Ruddalens IP	5,000
Vänersborgs IF	Vänersborg	Vänersvallen	2,000
Åtvidabergs FF	Åtvidaberg	Kopparvallen	8,000
Österlen FF	Skillinge	Skillinge Idrottsplats	1,000

• ¹ Correct as of end of 2018 season

Skarsjövallen in Ljungskile.

Rimnersvallen in Uddevalla.

Seasons: previous winners

Statistics

Top goalscorers Norra

Nigerian forward Kennedy Igboananike became topscorer in Division 1 Norra 2008 with Vasalunds IF.

Veteran Danish forward Allan Borgvardt has been one of the most prolific players during the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Division 1 seasons with an overall 48 goals in 68 games.

Season	Player	Team	Goals
2006	Anders Lindberg	Visby IF Gute	14
2007	Andreas Hermansson	Umeå FC	16
2008	Kennedy Igboananike	Vasalunds IF	18
2009	Johan Eklund	IK Brage	21
2010	Danny Persson	Umeå FC	17
2011	Robert Mambo Mumba	Dalkurd FF	16
2012	Emir Smajic	Östersunds FK Västerås SK	17
2013	Stellan Carlsson	BK Forward	18
	Moses Ogbu	IK Sirius
2014	Sencer Soguk	Valsta Syrianska IK	16
2015	Simon Mårtensson	Umeå FC	17
2016	Luca Gerbino Polo	Akropolis IF	25
2017	Timothy McNeil	Team TG	17
	Karwan Safari	Västerås SK
2018	Nikola Vasic	Akropolis IF	21
2019	Ekin Bulut	Vasalunds IF	26
2020	Ashley Coffey	IFK Haninge	27
2021	Pashang Abdulla	Piteå IF	20
	Rodin Deprem	Örebro Syrianska IF IF Brommapojkarna
2022	Naeem Mohammed	Sandvikens IF	23

Top goalscorers Södra

Season	Player	Team	Goals
2007	Freddy Söderberg	IFK Värnamo	23
2008	Niklas Moberg	Carlstad United BK	21
2009	Jörgen Nilsson	Kristianstads FF	17
2010	Ken Hansson	FC Rosengård	23
2011	Allan Borgvardt	IF Sylvia	19
2012	Johan Patriksson	IK Oddevold	24
2013	Allan Borgvardt	IF Sylvia	15
2014	Salif Camara Jönsson	Lunds BK	27
2015	Salif Camara Jönsson	Trelleborgs FF	23
2016	Richard Yarsuvat	Norrby IF	20
2017	Robin Strömberg	Ljungskile SK	21
2018	Robin Strömberg	Ljungskile SK	20
2019	Aniekpeno Udo	Ljungskile SK	18
	Jesper Westermark	Ljungskile SK
2020	Simon Adjei	Assyriska IK	25
2021	Yoann Fellrath	FC Trollhättan	26
2022	Noah Christoffersson	Torns IF	21

References

External links

• Official website