Svensk handbollselit
Svensk handbollselit is the highest division of women's handball in Sweden. The inaugural Elitserien season took place in 1951, with Kvinnliga IK Sport winning the championship.
Sport | Handball |
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Founded | 1951 |
No. of teams | 12 |
Country | ![]() |
Most recent champion(s) | IK Sävehof (2019, 14th title) |
International cup(s) | Champions League EHF Cup Challenge Cup |
The league currently consists of 12 teams. The eight top teams at the end of every season continue to the playoffs, in which the quarterfinals and semifinals are played as a best-of-five series, unlike the final which is played as a single match. The champion is awarded a spot in the EHF Women's Champions League's qualification stage.[1]
Historically, the women's Elitserien was dominated by IK Sävehof and Kvinnliga IK Sport, both with 14 championships respectively.[2]
For the 2016-2017 season, the series changed name to "Svensk handbollselit".[3] Until then, it was called Elitserien (English: the Elite League) (Swedish: Elitserien i handboll för damer)
List of Swedish Champions in women's handball
References
- 2011-12 Champions League results in the European Handball Federation's website
- List of champions in fokus.se
- Jan Peter Andersson (17 May 2016). "Här är nya namnen på elitserien i handboll" (in Swedish). Expressen. Retrieved 4 February 2017.