Handbollsligan
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Handbollsligan (literally, "The Handball league") is the highest league in the league system of Swedish handball, and comprises the top 14 Swedish handball teams. The first season began in 1931–32. The season ends with a playoff.
Key facts
- Sports league.sport
- Handball
- Sports league.name
- Handbollsligan
- Sports league.logo
- Handbollsligan logo.svg
- Sports league.logo_size
- 260px
- Sports league.teams
- 14
- Sports league.country
- Sweden
- Sports league.confed
- EHF
- Sports league.champions
- Ystads IF (4th title)
- Sports league.champ_season
- 2024–25
- Sports league.most_champs
- Redbergslids IK(20 titles)
- Sports league.relegation
- Allsvenskan
- Sports league.domestic_cup
- Swedish Cup
- Sports league.confed_cup
- EHF European LeagueEHF European Cup
- Sports league.current_season
- 2025–26 Handbollsligan
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Sweden
- Sport
- handball
- Official website
- www.svenskhandboll.se/Elitherr
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- inception
- 1931-00-00
- number of participants
- 14
- name
- Elitserien
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Structure
- Teams for season 2025–26
- Swedish Champions
- EHF coefficient ranking
- References
- External links
Handbollsligan (literally, "The Handball league") is the highest league in the league system of Swedish handball, and comprises the top 14 Swedish handball teams. The first season began in 1931–32. The season ends with a playoff.
==Structure== The season starts in September with a regular season comprising 14 teams meeting each other twice. A total of 26 rounds. The eight best teams after the regular season qualifies for the play-off. The 14th team is relegated, and the 11th, 12th and 13th team plays matches against the second, third and fourth from Allsvenskan to qualify for next season's Handbollsligan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Handbollsligan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.