2008–09 Elitserien (bandy)

2008–09 Elitserien season
2008–09 Elitserien season
League	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 seasons
	← 2007–2008 2009–2010 →

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	Qualification to Relegation playoffs
13	IFK Motala	26	4	2	20	73	136	−63	10	Relegation to the Allsvenskan
14	Örebro SK	26	4	0	22	87	199	−112	8	Relegation to the Allsvenskan

Updated to match(es) played on completed. Source: ^[1]

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-finals				Semi-finals						Final



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

Final

21 March 2009

15:45 UTC+1

Edsbyns IF	4–5 (a.e.t.)	Västerås SK
Edling (2) Törnberg Mickelson	Report	Anderbro (2) Nilsson (2) Holmberg

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of end of season.^[2]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Magnus Muhrén	Sandvikens AIK	44
1	Christoffer Edlund	Vetlanda BK	44
3	Christian Mickelsson	Edsbyns IF	42
4	Tomas Knutson	Örebro SK	40
5	David Karlsson	Hammarby IF	37
6	Jesper Bryngelsson	Villa Lidköping BK	34
7	Alexander Mayborn	IK Sirius	27
7	Misha Pashkin	Gripen Trollhättan BK	27
9	Patrik Anderbro	Västerås SK	25
	Joakim Hedqvist	Edsbyns IF
	Per-Johan Wikström	Broberg/Söderhamn Bandy

References

^ "Elitserien - Svenska Bandyförbundet". Archived from the original on 2014-12-20. Retrieved 2015-03-27.
^ "Skytteliga - Svenska Bandyförbundet". Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.

[1] "Elitserien - Svenska Bandyförbundet". Archived from the original on 2014-12-20. Retrieved 2015-03-27.

[2] "Skytteliga - Svenska Bandyförbundet". Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.

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