2013 – 14 Division 1 season The 2013 – 14 season of Division 1 , the third tier of ice hockey in Sweden , organized by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association ( SIHA ) , began on 11 September 2013 . The regular season concluded on 16 February 2014 . The following playoffs towards the qualifier to the second - tier league HockeyAllsvenskan began on 19 February 2014 and ended on 7 March 2014 . The qualifiers to Division 1 began on 2 March 2014 and ended on 26 March 2014 . The qualifier to HockeyAllsvenskan began on 13 March 2014 and ended on 5 April 2014 . The 2013 – 14 season was the last season the league was named " Division 1 " ; in April 2014 , the league was renamed " Hockeyettan " . Format . The league featured 53 teams ( a contraction from the 56 of the 2012 – 13 season ) , divided into five geographical groups . This was another change from past seasons , which featured six groups , lettered A through F . This season , however , groups A and B were merged into Division 1 " Norra " ( " North " ) . With the exception of Division 1 North , the teams played each team in their initial groups three times , at least once at home and once on the road . In North , the teams played each team four times , twice at home and twice on the road . As with previous years , groups C through F played until the new year , when the top four teams from each group moved into two new groups , Allettan " Mellan " ( " central " ) and Allettan " Södra " ( " south " ) , while the remaining teams played a continuation series in the original groups . Division 1 North , however , continued playing in the same group until the conclusion of the regular season . In the continuation groups , the teams received " starting points " , dependent on their rankings in their initial groups ; the lowest - ranked team received no points , the second - lowest - ranked 2 points , the third - lowest - ranked 4 points , and so on . In the Allettan groups and the 1F continuation group , the teams played each team in their group twice , once at home and once on the road . In the other continuation groups , the teams played each team in their groups three times , at least once at home and once on the road . After the conclusion of the spring series and Division 1 North , the best - ranked teams of Division 1 North , Allettan Central , and Allettan South continued to the playoffs . The four teams that survived the playoffs would continue to the 2014 HockeyAllsvenskan qualifier ( Swedish : " Kvalserien till HockeyAllsvenskan " ) . Meanwhile , the teams with the poorest records in North , as well as the continuation groups C through F , would play in the Division 1 qualifiers to retain their spots in Division 1 for the 2014 – 15 season . Two teams from Division 1 North , three teams from each of the continuation groups of Division 1 C , D and E , and four teams from the Division 1 F continuation group had to participate in the Division 1 qualifier ( Hockeyettan ) groups . Only the top team from each of those groups would be guaranteed a Hockeyettan spot in the 2014 – 15 season , meaning that the league would be cut short by 10 teams and that at least 10 teams would be relegated to Division 2 . The SIHA contracted the league down to 47 teams for the 2014 – 15 season , requiring the SIHA to promote the four second - placed teams in Division 1 qualifiers C – F , the third - placed team from qualifier E , and the third - placed team from qualifier F ( the latter two to replace Falu IF , who voluntarily demanded relegation , and bankrupt Nyköpings HK ) . Playing format . Each game consisted of three 20 - minute regulation periods , for a total of 60 minutes . After the 60 regulation minutes , the team with the most goals scored won the game . If the game was tied after regulation time , a five - minute overtime period ensued , in which the team scoring the next goal won the game . If no team scored during the overtime period , a shootout ensued , with each team taking three penalty shots against the opposing team ' s goaltender . If the game was still tied after the three penalty shot rounds , additional rounds ensued until one team scored and the other team didn ' t . Points were awarded for each game , with a win in regulation time giving 3 points , an overtime / shootout win 2 points , an overtime / shootout loss 1 point , and a regulation loss 0 points . Tiebreak . In case two or more teams ended up tied in points , the following tiebreaker s were used : Participating teams . r = Relegated from 2012 – 13 HockeyAllsvenskan < br > p = Promoted from 2012 – 13 Division 2 Note that Botkyrka HC merged with IFK Tumba Hockey during the off - season . Initial groups . Division 1 North . Division 1 North was formed out of a merger of Division 1A and 1B . It consisted of 12 teams , and play continued in this group through the entire regular season . Promotion playoffs . The promotion playoffs was divided into three rounds : Playoff 1 , Playoff 2 , and Playoff 3 . The six top - ranked teams from Division 1 North , the four top - ranked teams from each of the Allettan groups , and the top ranked team from each of the continuation groups qualified for the playoffs . Each playoff match - up was a best - of - three series , with the winners of each playoff round continuing to the next round . In each series the higher - seeded team received home advantage and played an eventual third game at home if necessary to determine a winner of the series . The four teams winning the final round , Playoff 3 , continued to the 2014 HockeyAllsvenskan qualifier ( " Kval till HockeyAllsvenskan " ) and attempted promotion to the second - tier league HockeyAllsvenskan . Piteå , Nyköping , and Vita Hästen won the North and Allettan groups , and therefore received byes to the third round . Sundsvall had the best points average of the second - place North and Allettan teams , and therefore also skipped to the third round . The two other second - place teams , KRIF and Visby also finished , received byes to the second round . In Playoff 1 , match - ups were determined by the standings in each spring series ( including Division 1 North ) . In Playoff 2 and Playoff 3 , match - ups were determined through random draw . Playoff 1 . Kiruna IF , Östersunds IK , Hudiksvalls HC , Huddinge IK , Tingsryds AIF , and Kristianstads IK won their match - ups , and continued to Playoff 2 . They defeated Kalix UHC , Tegs SK , Tierps HK , Wings HC Arlanda , Västerviks IK , and Mariestad BoIS HC respectively . Playoff 2 . The six Playoff 1 winners were ranked by their record in their spring series , on the basis of 1 ) which spring series the teams played in ( i . e . Allettan or the continuation series , except Division 1 North ) , 2 ) ranking in the standings , 3 ) points average , 4 ) goal difference , and 5 ) goals scored . The two highest - ranked Playoff 1 winners and the two directly - qualified teams faced the four other Playoff 1 winners . The four match - ups were determined through random draw . Playoff 3 . The four directly - qualified teams faced the four Playoff 2 winners . The four match - ups were determined through random draw . Piteå HC , Tingsryds AIF , HC Vita Hästen , and Kallinge - Ronneby IF both swept their series and proceeded to the 2014 HockeyAllsvenskan qualifier . Division 1 qualifiers ( Hockeyettan ) . The winners of the five qualifiers were guaranteed spots in the league for the 2014 – 15 season . In order to get 47 teams in the 2014 – 15 season , the SIHA also promoted the four second - placed teams from qualifiers C – F . However , two of those 47 teams pulled out of the league during the preseason , resulting in two other teams from the qualifiers being promoted : HockeyAllsvenskan qualifier . The four playoff winners — HC Vita Hästen , Kallinge - Ronneby IF , Piteå HC , and Tingsryds AIF — played the two lowest - ranked teams from HockeyAllsvenskan — IF Björklöven and IF Troja / Ljungby — in a double round - robin tournament , facing each team once at home and once on the road for a total of 10 games per team . HC Vita Hästen managed to promote to HockeyAllsvenskan at the expense of IF Troja / Ljungby , while IF Björklöven defended their HockeyAllsvenskan spot .