1997 Allsvenskan

Allsvenskan

Season	1997
Champions	Halmstads BK
Relegated	Västerås SK (after play-offs) Degerfors IF Ljungskile SK
Champions League	Halmstads BK
UEFA Cup	IFK Göteborg Malmö FF Örebro SK
Top goalscorer	Mats Lilienberg, Halmstads BK Christer Mattiasson, IF Elfsborg Dan Sahlin, Örebro SK (14)
Average attendance	5,570
← 1996 1998 →

Allsvenskan 1997, part of the 1997 Swedish football season, was the 73rd Allsvenskan season played. Halmstads BK won the league ahead of runners-up IFK Göteborg, while Västerås SK, Degerfors IF and Panos Ljungskile SK were relegated.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Halmstads BK (C)	26	17	1	8	49	27	+22	52	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2	IFK Göteborg	26	14	7	5	50	32	+18	49	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Malmö FF	26	12	10	4	48	28	+20	46
4	Örebro SK	26	13	7	6	43	34	+9	46	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
5	Örgryte IS	26	12	7	7	34	29	+5	43	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
6	Helsingborgs IF	26	10	11	5	40	28	+12	41	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
7	IF Elfsborg	26	12	5	9	45	35	+10	41
8	AIK	26	9	10	7	38	26	+12	37
9	IFK Norrköping	26	7	7	12	27	36	−9	28
10	Trelleborgs FF	26	8	4	14	32	48	−16	28
11	Östers IF (O)	26	4	11	11	28	44	−16	23	Qualification to Relegation play-offs
12	Västerås SK (R)	26	6	5	15	26	49	−23	23
13	Degerfors IF (R)	26	4	8	14	29	47	−18	20	Relegation to Division 1
14	Panos Ljungskile (R)	26	5	5	16	31	57	−26	20

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Relegation play-offs

October 29, 1997

Djurgårdens IF	1–1	Östers IF

Stockholms Stadion, Stockholm

November 5, 1997

Östers IF	2–0	Djurgårdens IF

Värensvallen, Växjö

Östers IF won 3–1 on aggregate.

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November 1, 1997

BK Häcken	1–1	Västerås SK

?, Gothenburg

November 6, 1997

Västerås SK	2–4	BK Häcken

?, Västerås

BK Häcken won 5–3 on aggregate.

Results

Home \ Away	AIK	DEG	HBK	HIF	IFE	IFKG	IFKN	LSK	MFF	TFF	VSK	ÖSK	ÖIS	ÖIF
AIK		1–1	0–2	2–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	6–0	1–1	3–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–2
Degerfors IF	2–4		0–2	1–1	2–2	1–3	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–2	2–2
Halmstads BK	1–0	2–0		3–1	3–0	6–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–2	2–1	3–2	3–1	2–1
Helsingborgs IF	0–0	2–2	2–1		1–0	2–0	0–0	7–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–1	2–0
IF Elfsborg	3–1	2–1	3–1	1–3		3–0	0–1	3–0	1–1	3–2	2–0	2–1	0–1	4–1
IFK Göteborg	3–0	2–2	2–0	2–2	2–2		4–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	2–0	5–2	2–0	3–0
IFK Norrköping	0–2	2–0	0–3	2–2	1–2	1–3		3–2	2–2	0–0	4–0	0–1	1–2	1–0
Ljungskile SK	0–3	2–0	5–2	0–1	1–1	3–4	2–1		1–2	1–0	2–2	2–3	1–1	3–0
Malmö FF	0–0	2–0	2–1	4–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–1		5–2	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–1
Trelleborgs FF	0–3	3–1	0–1	2–0	3–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–1		3–5	1–2	0–0	0–3
Västerås SK	1–1	1–3	1–0	0–1	0–3	1–2	0–0	3–1	1–2	0–2		2–2	0–4	3–0
Örebro SK	3–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–3	3–1	0–5	4–1	5–0		2–0	2–0
Örgryte IS	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–3	3–2	1–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	0–0		1–1
Östers IF	0–0	3–2	0–1	0–0	2–4	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	3–3	2–0	1–1	0–2

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mats Lilienberg	Halmstads BK	14
	Christer Mattiasson	IF Elfsborg	14
	Dan Sahlin	Örebro SK	14
4	Andreas Andersson	IFK Göteborg	13
	Andreas Hermansson	Trelleborgs FF	13
6	Niclas Kindvall	Degerfors IF	12
7	Mattias Jonson	Helsingborgs IF	11
8	Hans Eklund	Östers IF	10
	Yksel Osmanovski	Malmö FF	10
	Stefan Pettersson	IFK Göteborg	10

References

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