2003 Allsvenskan

Allsvenskan 2003, part of the 2003 Swedish football season, was the 79th Allsvenskan season played. The first match was played 5 April 2003 and the last match was played 26 October 2003. Djurgårdens IF won the league ahead of runners-up Hammarby IF, while Östers IF and Enköpings SK were relegated.

Allsvenskan

Season	2003
Champions	Djurgårdens IF
Relegated	Östers IF Enköpings SK
Champions League	Djurgårdens IF
UEFA Cup	Hammarby IF
Matches played	182
Goals scored	518 (2.85 per match)
Top goalscorer	Niklas Skoog, Malmö FF (22)
Average attendance	10,208
← 2002 2004 →

Participating clubs

AIK

Djurgården

Helsingborg

Elfsborg

Göteborg

Enköping

Örgryte

Hammarby

Sundsvall

Öster

Halmstad

Landskrona

Örebro

Malmö

Location of the 2003 Allsvenskan teams

Club	Last season	First season in league	First season of current spell
AIK	5th	1924–25	1981
Djurgårdens IF	1st	1927–28	2001
Enköpings SK	2nd (Superettan)	2003	2003
IF Elfsborg	10th	1926–27	1997
IFK Göteborg	12th	1924–25	1977
Halmstads BK	6th	1933–34	1993
Hammarby IF	9th	1924–25	1998
Helsingborgs IF	4th	1924–25	1993
Landskrona BoIS	11th	1924–25	2002
Malmö FF	2nd	1931–32	2001
GIF Sundsvall	8th	1965	2000
Örebro SK	7th	1946–47	1989
Örgryte IS	3rd	1924–25	1995
Östers IF	1st (Superettan)	1968	2003

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Djurgårdens IF (C)	26	19	1	6	62	26	+36	58	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Hammarby IF	26	15	6	5	50	30	+20	51	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
3	Malmö FF	26	14	6	6	50	23	+27	48	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
4	Örgryte IS	26	14	3	9	42	40	+2	45
5	AIK	26	11	6	9	39	34	+5	39
6	Helsingborgs IF	26	11	5	10	35	36	−1	38
7	IFK Göteborg	26	10	7	9	37	28	+9	37
8	Örebro SK	26	10	7	9	29	33	−4	37
9	Halmstads BK	26	11	3	12	41	37	+4	36
10	IF Elfsborg	26	9	7	10	29	34	−5	34	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
11	Landskrona BoIS	26	8	8	10	26	39	−13	32
12	GIF Sundsvall (O)	26	3	10	13	25	43	−18	19	Qualification to Relegation play-offs
13	Östers IF (R)	26	3	8	15	31	56	−25	17	Relegation to Superettan Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round[lower-alpha 2]
14	Enköpings SK (R)	26	3	5	18	22	59	−37	14	Relegation to Superettan

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

1. Elfsborg qualified for the UEFA Cup as Svenska Cupen champions 2003.
2. Sweden was among the best three associations in the UEFA Fair Play ranking and thus received an additional spot in the first qualifying round of the Europa League, Öster received the qualifying spot for their ranking in Allsvenskans Fair Play ranking.

Relegation play-offs

30 October 2003

19:00

BK Häcken	1 – 2	GIF Sundsvall
Uusimäki  64'		Svenning  19' (pen.) Lundqvist  47'

Rambergsvallen, Gothenburg

Attendance: 2,317

Referee: Martin Hansson (Holmsjö)

2 November 2003

14:00

GIF Sundsvall	0 – 1 (a)	BK Häcken
		Skiljo  46'

Idrottsparken, Sundsvall

Attendance: 4,307

Referee: Peter Fröjdfeldt (Eskilstuna)

Results

Home \ Away	AIK	DIF	ESK	IFE	IFKG	HBK	HAM	HEL	LBoIS	MFF	GIFS	ÖSK	ÖIS	ÖIF
AIK		3–3	3–0	4–0	0–2	4–2	1–3	0–2	3–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–1
Djurgårdens IF	2–1		3–2	5–0	3–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	0–2	2–0	3–0	0–3	5–2
Enköpings SK	0–2	0–4		1–1	0–1	0–4	1–2	0–2	1–1	0–1	3–1	2–0	1–3	0–2
IF Elfsborg	2–0	0–2	1–1		2–1	2–1	0–2	0–0	3–0	1–2	2–2	1–0	3–1	4–0
IFK Göteborg	0–2	1–0	3–0	0–1		0–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–1	4–0	5–2	1–0
Halmstads BK	1–1	2–3	3–2	1–1	1–0		3–1	2–4	3–0	0–4	2–0	2–3	2–1	3–0
Hammarby IF	1–1	2–3	7–0	3–0	1–1	1–0		2–0	0–1	2–1	5–0	1–1	3–0	2–2
Helsingborgs IF	5–1	2–1	0–4	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–2		2–2	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–3
Landskrona BoIS	1–2	1–2	3–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–3		1–0	3–2	0–0	1–1	2–0
Malmö FF	3–0	2–1	4–0	0–0	1–3	2–1	6–0	5–0	2–2		2–2	2–0	1–1	3–2
GIF Sundsvall	2–1	1–4	0–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	3–1	1–1		0–1	0–1	1–1
Örebro SK	0–0	1–0	4–2	2–1	2–2	0–2	2–3	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–1		1–2	5–1
Örgryte IS	3–1	0–3	3–0	1–0	4–1	3–1	0–1	1–4	1–1	0–4	1–0	2–0		4–2
Östers IF	0–1	0–4	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–3	4–4	3–3	3–0	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–2

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

Attendances

	Club	Home average	Away average	Home high
1	Malmö FF	18,716	10,367	27,477
2	AIK	17,302	12,489	35,197
3	Djurgårdens IF	16,083	16,852	34,267
4	Hammarby IF	14,025	12,604	35,611
5	IFK Göteborg	11,586	13,241	40,382
6	Helsingborgs IF	10,235	9,567	15,460
7	Örgryte IS	8,654	10,337	37,026
8	IF Elfsborg	7,733	8,292	11,205
9	Örebro SK	7,508	8,054	11,739
10	Halmstads BK	7,506	8,158	14,435
11	Östers IF	7,025	9,259	13,215
12	Landskrona BoIS	6,436	8,716	11,375
13	GIF Sundsvall	5,675	7,418	7,675
14	Enköpings SK	4,451	7,582	9,102
—	Total	10,210	—	40,382

Top scorers

	Player	Nat	Club	Goals
1	Niklas Skoog		Malmö FF	22
2	Paulinho Guará		Örgryte IS	14
	Kim Källström		Djurgårdens IF	14
4	Gustaf Andersson		Helsingborgs IF	12
	Kennedy Bakircioglü		Hammarby IF	12
	Andreas Johansson		Djurgårdens IF	12
7	Afonso Alves		Örgryte IS	10
	Mikael Andersson		Hammarby IF	10
	Geert den Ouden		Djurgårdens IF	10
	Igor Sypniewski		Halmstads BK	10

References

Print

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