Allsvenskan/import

Allsvenskan also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan) is a Swedish professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Swedish football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Superettan. Seasons run from April to November, with teams playing 30 matches each, totalling 240 matches in the season.
The league was created in 1924. Before that, the top league in Sweden was called Svenska Serien. The winner is awarded Lennart Johanssons Pokal. It is ranked 23rd in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the last five years, just ahead of the Scottish Premier League and below the Croatian Prva HNL. The current champions are Malmö FF, who won the title in the 2013 season.
== Clubs ==
A total of 61 clubs have played in Allsvenskan from its inception in 1924 up to and including the 2013 season, Falkenbergs FF will be the 62nd club for the 2014 season. No club have been a member of the league for every season since its inception, AIK are the club to have participated in most seasons with a record of 85 seasons played out of 89 seasons in total.
The following 16 clubs are competing in Allsvenskan during the 2014 season.
Club 	Positionin 2012 	First season	Number of seasons	First season ofcurrent spell	Titles	Last title
AIK 	2nd 	1924–25 	85 	2006 	5 	2009
BK Häcken 	10th 	1983 	13 	2009 	0 	
Djurgårdens IF 	7th 	1927–28 	58 	2001 	7 	2005
Falkenbergs FF 	1st in Superettan	2014 	0 	2014 	0 	
Gefle IF 	12th 	1933–34 	13 	2005 	0 	
Halmstads BK 	14th 	1933–34 	51 	2013 	4 	2000
Helsingborgs IF 	5th 	1924–25 	63 	1993 	7 	2011
IF Brommapojkarna	13th 	2007 	4 	2013 	0 	
IF Elfsborg 	6th 	1926–27 	70 	1997 	6 	2012
IFK Göteborg 	3rd 	1924–25 	81 	1977 	13 	2007
IFK Norrköping 	9th 	1924–25 	73 	2011 	12 	1992
Kalmar FF 	4th 	1949–50 	26 	2004 	1 	2008
Malmö FF 	1st 	1931–32 	78 	2001 	20 	2013
Mjällby AIF 	11th 	1980 	7 	2010 	0 	
Åtvidabergs FF 	8th 	1968 	18 	2012 	2 	1973
Örebro SK 	2nd in Superettan	1946–47 	45 	2014 	0 	
==External links==
* Official Allsvenskan website
* Allsvenskan at the Swedish Football Association website
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