| 2016–17 Elitserien season | |
| League: | Elitserien |
| Sport: | Bandy |
| Duration: | 21 October 2016 – 17 February 2017 (regular league) 23 February – 25 March 2017 (championship play-off) |
| No Of Teams: | 14 |
| Tv: | Sveriges Television |
| Season: | Regular season |
| Season Champ Name: | League winners |
| League Champ Name: | Swedish Champions |
| Finals: | Final |
| Finals Link: | List of Swedish bandy champions |
| Finals Champ: | Edsbyns IF |
| Finals Runner-Up: | Bollnäs GIF |
| Seasonslistnames: | Elitserien |
| Prevseason Year: | 2015–16 |
| Nextseason Year: | 2017–18 |
The 2016–17 Elitserien was the tenth season of the present highest Swedish men's bandy top division, Elitserien. The regular season began on 21 October 2016, and the final was played at Tele2 Arena in Stockholm on 25 March 2017. Edsbyns IF won the Swedish national championship title by defeating Bollnäs GIF, 3–1, in the final game, thereby securing Edsbyn's tenth championship title, making the club alone the third most successful Swedish bandy club so far.
Teams 1–10 from the regular 2015–16 Elitserien league were automatically qualified for this season's play in the top-tier divisionen.[1] All four teams from the 2015/2016 season which played the qualification games (IK Sirius, Gripen Trollhättan BK, Kalix BF and TB Västerås) managed to stay in the Elitserien.[2]
The quarter finals and the semi-finals are played in best of five games, interchangeably on home ice and away ice, while the final is one game played in Stockholm, the Swedish capital.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  David Karlsson | Villa Lidköping BK | 56 |
| 2 | Christoffer Edlund | Sandvikens AIK | 48 |
| 3 | Erik Pettersson | Sandvikens AIK | 47 |
| 4 | Patrik Nilsson | Bollnäs GIF | 46 |
| 5 | Joakim Hedqvist | IFK Vänersborg | 44 |
| 6 | Joakim Andersson | Vetlanda BK | 43 |
| 7 | Daniel Andersson | Villa Lidköping BK | 37 |
| 8 |  Sergey Lomanov | IFK Vänersborg | 30 |
| 9 | Martin Söderberg | Broberg/Söderhamn Bandy | 29 |
| Adam Rudell | Gripen Trollhättan BK |