# 2011 Superettan

The 2011 Superettan was part of the 2011 Swedish football season, and the twelfth season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football division in its current format. The season began on 9 April 2011 and ended on 22 October 2011.
The top two teams qualified directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third played a play-off against the fourteenth from Allsvenskan to decide who qualified to play in Allsvenskan 2012.
The bottom two teams qualified directly for relegation to Division 1, the thirteenth and the fourteenth played a play-off against the numbers two from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who qualified to play in Superettan 2012.

## Teams

A total of sixteen teams contested the league, including eleven sides from the 2010 season, two relegated teams from 2010 Allsvenskan, two promoted teams from Division 1 and Qviding FIF who replaced Örgryte IS after they were automatically relegated to Division 1 before the start of the new season due to bankruptcy.
FC Trollhättan and Väsby United were relegated at the end of the 2010 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. They were replaced by Division 1 Norra champions Västerås SK and Division 1 Södra champions IFK Värnamo.
Jönköpings Södra IF and Östers IF both retained their Superettan spots after defeating their Division 1 opponents in a relegation/promotion playoff.

### Stadia and locations

| Team | Location | Stadium | Stadium capacity$^1$ |
| Assyriska FF | Södertälje | Södertälje Fotbollsarena | 7,500 |
| Degerfors IF | Degerfors | Stora Valla | 12,500 |
| Falkenbergs FF | Falkenberg | Falkenbergs IP | 6,000 |
| GIF Sundsvall | Sundsvall | Norrporten Arena | 8,000 |
| Hammarby IF | Stockholm | Söderstadion | 15,600 |
| IF Brommapojkarna | Stockholm | Grimsta IP | 8,000 |
| IFK Värnamo | Värnamo | Finnvedsvallen | 5,000 |
| IK Brage | Borlänge | Domnarvsvallen | 5,500 |
| Jönköpings Södra IF | Jönköping | Stadsparksvallen | 5,200 |
| Landskrona BoIS | Landskrona | Landskrona IP | 12,000 |
| Ljungskile SK | Ljungskile | Starke Arvid Arena | 8,000 |
| Qviding FIF | Gothenburg | Valhalla IP | 4,000 |
| Västerås SK | Västerås | Swedbank Park | 7,000 |
| Åtvidabergs FF | Åtvidaberg | Kopparvallen | 8,000 |
| Ängelholms FF | Ängelholm | Ängelholms IP | 5,000 |
| Östers IF | Växjö | Värendsvallen | 13,000 |
* $^1$ Correct as of end of 2010 Superettan season

### Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| Team | Head Coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
| Assyriska FF | Pat Walker | Göran Marklund | Nike | Scania |
| IK Brage | Lennart Andersson | Niklas Forslund | Puma SE | SSAB |
| IF Brommapojkarna | Roberth Björknesjö | Pontus Segerström | adidas | Various |
| Degerfors IF | Patrik Werner | Tobias Solberg | adidas | Outokumpu |
| Falkenbergs FF | Thomas Askebrand | David Svensson | Nike | Various |
| Hammarby IF | Roger Sandberg | José Monteiro | Kappa | Pepsi |
| Jönköpings Södra IF | Hans Lindbom | Dennis Östlundh | Nike | Various |
| Landskrona BoIS | Henrik Larsson | Linus Malmqvist | Umbro | Various |
| Ljungskile SK | Bo Wålemark Örjan Glans | Johan Patriksson | Umbro | Various |
| Qviding FIF | Lars Ternström | Christian Lindström | Puma | ICA |
| GIF Sundsvall | Sören Åkeby | Jonas Wallerstedt | adidas | Norrporten |
| IFK Värnamo | Tony Johansson Glenn Ståhl | Tobias Englund | adidas | Various |
| Västerås SK | Erik Acar | Oscar Pehrsson | Nike | Various |
| Åtvidabergs FF | Andreas Thomsson | Henrik Gustavsson | Uhlsport | Sharp |
| Ängelholms FF | Christoffer Skoog Joakim Persson | Jakob Augustsson | adidas | Peab |
| Östers IF | Roar Hansen | Denis Velić | Umbro | ICA |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | Table |
| Brage | Pelle Johansson | Sacked | 5 May 2011 | | Lennart Andersson | 5 May 2011 | |
| Assyriska FF | Rikard Norling | Signed by Malmö FF | 3 June 2011 | | Göran Marklund (as caretaker) | 3 June 2011 | |
| Västerås SK | Kalle Granath | Sacked | 24 June 2011 | | Erik Acar | 24 June 2011 | |
| Assyriska FF | Göran Marklund | End of tenure as caretaker | 2 August 2011 | 7th | Pat Walker | 2 August 2011 | 7th |
| Hammarby | Roger Franzén | Sacked | 18 August 2011 | 10th | Roger Sandberg (as caretaker) | 18 August 2011 | 10th |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Åtvidabergs FF (C, P) | 30 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 58 | 31 | +27 | 57 | Promotion to Allsvenskan |
| 2 | GIF Sundsvall (P) | 30 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 61 | 29 | +32 | 55 | Promotion to Allsvenskan |
| 3 | Ängelholms FF | 30 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 47 | 40 | +7 | 53 | Qualification to Promotion playoffs |
| 4 | Östers IF | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 40 | 28 | +12 | 50 | |
| 5 | Degerfors IF | 30 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 53 | 44 | +9 | 48 | |
| 6 | IF Brommapojkarna | 30 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 50 | 38 | +12 | 47 | |
| 7 | Falkenbergs FF | 30 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 50 | 43 | +7 | 45 | |
| 8 | Ljungskile SK | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 48 | 39 | +9 | 42 | |
| 9 | Assyriska FF | 30 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 39 | 41 | −2 | 41 | |
| 10 | Landskrona BoIS | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 36 | 39 | −3 | 41 | |
| 11 | Hammarby IF | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 37 | 40 | −3 | 40 | |
| 12 | Jönköpings Södra IF | 30 | 12 | 4 | 14 | 47 | 53 | −6 | 40 | |
| 13 | IFK Värnamo (O) | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 43 | 51 | −8 | 39 | Qualification to Relegation playoffs |
| 14 | IK Brage (O) | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 30 | 50 | −20 | 31 | Qualification to Relegation playoffs |
| 15 | Västerås SK (R) | 30 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 39 | 66 | −27 | 28 | Relegation to Division 1 |
| 16 | Qviding FIF (R) | 30 | 1 | 8 | 21 | 17 | 63 | −46 | 11 | Relegation to Division 1 |

## Relegation play-offs

Brage won 7–3 on aggregate.
IFK Värnamo won 3–0 on aggregate.

## Results

| Home \ Away | AFF | DIF | FFF | GIFS | HAM | BP | IFKV | IKB | JSIF | LAN | LSK | QFIF | VSK | ÅFF | ÄFF | ÖIF |
| Assyriska FF | | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 |
| Degerfors IF | 2–3 | | 1–3 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 6–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 3–3 |
| Falkenbergs FF | 4–0 | 4–0 | | 2–4 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 4–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 5–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3–4 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–4 |
| GIF Sundsvall | 1–2 | 3–0 | 4–0 | | 3–3 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 5–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 6–0 | 2–1 |
| Hammarby IF | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–3 | | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 5–2 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 |
| IF Brommapojkarna | 1–3 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | | 1–3 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 |
| IFK Värnamo | 3–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 3–1 | 2–4 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| IK Brage | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2–2 | | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 0–0 |
| Jönköpings Södra IF | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 4–2 | 2–3 | 3–0 | | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–3 |
| Landskrona BoIS | 2–3 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 |
| Ljungskile SK | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 1–3 | 5–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 0–0 | | 2–1 | 5–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 |
| Qviding FIF | 0–5 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–4 | | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 1–1 |
| Västerås SK | 0–2 | 3–5 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 3–3 | 0–1 | 2–2 | | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 |
| Åtvidabergs FF | 2–1 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 5–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 4–0 | | 5–0 | 0–1 |
| Ängelholms FF | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | | 3–0 |
| Östers IF | 4–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | |

## Season statistics
### Top goalkeepers

(Minimum of 10 games played)
| Rank | Goalkeeper | Club | GP | GA | SV% | ShO |
| 1 | Ivo Vazgeč | Landskrona BoIS Jönköping Södra | 25 | 29 | 80 | 7 |
| 2 | Tommy Naurin | GIF Sundsvall | 28 | 25 | 78 | 14 |
| 3 | Joakim Wulff | Öster | 27 | 25 | 77 | 11 |
| 3 | Brian Edwards | Degerfors | 28 | 41 | 77 | 9 |
| 5 | Kristoffer Nordfeldt | Brommapojkarna | 28 | 37 | 76 | 8 |
| 5 | Stojan Lukic | Falkenberg | 30 | 43 | 76 | 12 |
| 7 | Johannes Hopf | Hammarby | 30 | 39 | 75 | 9 |
| 8 | Henrik Gustavsson | Åtvidaberg | 30 | 31 | 74 | 10 |
| 8 | Niklas Helgesson | Jönköpings Södra | 17 | 32 | 74 | 3 |
| 10 | Mirza Selimović | Landskrona BoIS | 18 | 27 | 73 | 4 |
| 10 | Oscar Berglund | Assyriska | 29 | 38 | 73 | 8 |
| 10 | Matt Pyzdrowski | Ängelholm | 30 | 40 | 73 | 8 |
| 10 | Bill Halvorsen | IFK Värnamo | 13 | 17 | 73 | 4 |
| 10 | Christian Caulker | Västerås SK | 14 | 25 | 73 | 4 |

### Hat-tricks

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
| Pär Cederqvist | Jönköpings Södra | Västerås SK | 5–1 | 16 April 2011 |
| Stefan Rodevåg | Falkenberg | Västerås SK | 3–4 | 1 May 2011 |
| Peter Samuelsson | Degerfors | Brage | 5–0 | 25 June 2011 |
| Pablo Piñones-Arce | Brommapojkarna | Ljungskile | 3–1 | 27 June 2011 |
| Branimir Hrgota | Jönköpings Södra | Brage | 3–0 | 16 July 2011 |
| Freddy Borg | Öster | Assyriska | 4–2 | 7 August 2011 |
| Peter Samuelsson | Degerfors | Hammarby | 3–2 | 4 September 2011 |
| Mattias Mete | Västerås SK | Degerfors | 3–5 | 11 September 2011 |
| Mikael Boman$^4$ | Falkenberg | Assyriska | 4–0 | 11 September 2011 |
| Jones Kusi-Asare | Assyriska | Qviding | 5–0 | 22 October 2011 |
* $^4$ Player scored 4 goals

### Attendance

| Club | Home | Home | Away | Away | Total | Total |
| Club | Average | Total | Average | Total | Average | Total |
| Hammarby IF | 7,953 | 119,299 | 4,082 | 61,236 | 6,018 | 180,535 |
| GIF Sundsvall | 3,572 | 53,586 | 1,812 | 27,177 | 2,692 | 80,763 |
| Landskrona BoIS | 2,929 | 43,940 | 2,664 | 39,958 | 2,797 | 83,898 |
| Degerfors IF | 2,739 | 41,079 | 2,259 | 33,883 | 2,499 | 74,962 |
| Åtvidabergs FF | 2,640 | 39,594 | 2,906 | 43,594 | 2,773 | 83,188 |
| Östers IF | 2,637 | 39,561 | 2,626 | 39,388 | 2,632 | 78,949 |
| IK Brage | 2,408 | 36,126 | 2,159 | 32,387 | 2,284 | 68,513 |
| Jönköpings Södra IF | 2,347 | 35,205 | 2,474 | 37,104 | 2,410 | 72,309 |
| Assyriska FF | 2,319 | 34,784 | 2,176 | 32,639 | 2,247 | 67,423 |
| Västerås SK FK | 1,927 | 28,905 | 2,159 | 32,382 | 2,043 | 61,287 |
| IFK Värnamo | 1,926 | 28,890 | 2,364 | 35,464 | 2,145 | 64,354 |
| Falkenbergs FF | 1,382 | 20,736 | 2,295 | 34,418 | 1,838 | 55,154 |
| Ängelholms FF | 1,263 | 18,947 | 2,618 | 39,266 | 1,940 | 58,213 |
| Ljungskile SK | 1,175 | 17,629 | 2,322 | 34,828 | 1,749 | 52,457 |
| IF Brommapojkarna | 1,065 | 15,974 | 1,906 | 28,594 | 1,486 | 44,568 |
| Qviding FIF | 482 | 7,228 | 1,944 | 29,165 | 1,213 | 36,393 |
| League | 2,423 | 581,483 |