2008–09 Elitserien (bandy)

2008–09 Elitserien season
League Sweden Elitserien
Sport Bandy
Duration October 2008 – March 2009
Number of teams 14
Regular season
League Champions Edsbyns IF
Runners-up Västerås SK
Relegated to Allsvenskan Gripen Trollhättan BK (after qualification-round); IFK Motala, Örebro SK
Playoffs
Finals champions Västerås SK
  Runners-up Edsbyns IF

Elitserien is the top-tier of bandy in Sweden since 2007. The second season was played October–March 2008–09.

League table

Each team meet every other team twice during the season, so 26 rounds are played all in all.

The top eight teams went on to the quarter-finals in the play-off for the Swedish championship. Teams eleven and twelve had to play a qualifying round against teams from Allsvenskan to stay in Elitserien, while teams 13 and 14 were relegated without the possibility to re-qualify for Elitserien until next year.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Edsbyns IF 26 22 2 2 187 76 +111 46 Advance to Knock-out stage
2 Västerås SK 26 19 3 4 139 74 +65 41
3 IK Sirius 26 18 2 6 117 93 +24 38
4 Sandvikens AIK 26 17 2 7 149 85 +64 36
5 Vetlanda BK 26 15 4 7 115 89 +26 34
6 Hammarby IF 26 15 2 9 135 106 +29 32
7 Broberg/Söderhamn 26 13 2 11 109 96 +13 28
8 IFK Vänersborg 26 10 4 12 102 95 +7 24
9 Bollnäs GIF 26 8 5 13 100 102 2 21
10 Villa Lidköping BK 26 8 2 16 96 135 39 18
11 IFK Kungälv 26 8 0 18 83 131 48 16 Qualification to Relegation playoffs
12 Gripen Trollhättan BK 26 4 4 18 86 161 75 12
13 IFK Motala 26 4 2 20 73 136 63 10 2009–10 Allsvenskan
14 Örebro SK 26 4 0 22 87 199 112 8
Updated to match(es) played on completed. Source:

Knock-out stage

A best-of-three playoff were used in the quarter-finals and best-of-five in the semi-finals. The crucial final for the Swedish Championship was played at Studenternas IP in Uppsala on 21 March 2009.

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
                      
 
 
 
 
Edsbyns IF 8 7
 
 
 
IFK Vänersborg 5 3
 
Edsbyns IF 3(4) 4(4) 7 7
 
 
 
IK Sirius 3(3) 4(5) 2 1
 
IK Sirius 2 2 5
 
 
 
Vetlanda BK 5 1 1
 
Edsbyns IF 4
 
 
 
Västerås SK 5
 
Västerås SK 5 8
 
 
 
Broberg/Söderhamn 1 0
 
Västerås SK 1 4(5) 5 4 4
 
 
 
Sandvikens AIK 4 4(4) 3 7 3
 
Sandvikens AIK 10 5
 
 
Hammarby IF 4 4
 

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