2018 Damallsvenskan Explained

Competition:	Damallsvenskan
Season:	2018
Winners:	Piteå IF
Relegated:	Hammarby IF IFK Kalmar
Continentalcup1:	Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:	Piteå IF Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC
Matches:	132
Total Goals:	412
League Topscorer:	Anja Mittag
Biggest Home Win:	ROS 10–0 Kalmar
Biggest Away Win:	KAL 1–9 ROS
Highest Attendance:	4,423 Kopparbergs v Rosengard
Lowest Attendance:	118 Bunkeflo v Växjö
Average Attendance:	894
Prevseason:	2017
Nextseason:	2019
Updated:	20 May 2018

The 2018 Damallsvenskan was the 30th season of the Swedish Women's association football top division, Damallsvenskan. It began on 14 April 2018 and ended on 27 October the same year. Linköpings FC were the defending champions, having won the competition in 2017.^{[1] [2]}

Piteå IF won the series, and so also their first Swedish National Championship title.^[3]

Teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium capacity^1
Djurgårdens IF	Stockholm	Stockholm Olympic Stadium	14,417
Eskilstuna United DFF	Eskilstuna	Tunavallen	7,600
FC Rosengård	Malmö	Malmö IP	5,700
Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC	Gothenburg	Valhalla IP	4,000
Linköpings FC	Linköping	Arena Linköping	8,500
Piteå IF	Piteå	LF Arena	3,000
Vittsjö GIK	Vittsjö	Vittsjö IP	3,000
IF Limhamn Bunkeflo	Malmö	Limhamns IP	2,800
Hammarby IF	Stockholm	Zinkensdamms IP	3,000
Kristianstads DFF	Kristianstad	Vilans IP	5,000
IFK Kalmar	Kalmar	Guldfågeln Arena	12,182
Växjö DFF	Växjö	Myresjöhus Arena	12,173

Note: ¹ According to each club information page at the Swedish Football Association website for Damallsvenskan.^[4]

Attendance

Home attendances

Team
	2	3,988	2,369	1,619	1,994
	3	4,554	1,957	1,270	1,518
	3	3,714	1,448	1,018	1,238
	3	3,135	1,518	382	1,045
	2	1,966	1,033	933	983
	3	2,662	1,398	487	887
	2	1,410	825	585	705
	2	1,351	895	456	675
	2	1,316	805	511	658
	3	1,850	669	555	616
	2	919	473	446	459
	3	858	356	228	286
Total	30	27,723	2,369	228	924

Updated to games played on 20 May 2018.^[5]

Highest attendances

Rank	Home team	Score	Away team	Attendance	Date	Stadium
1	Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC	4–2	FC Rosengård	4,423		Ullevi
2	Hammarby IF	0–1	Djurgårdens IF	4,197		Tele2 Arena
3	Piteå IF	6–1	Växjö DFF	3,778		LF Arena
4	IF Limhamn Bunkeflo	0–2	FC Rosengård	3,122		Stadion
5	Piteå IF	4–3	Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC	3,022		LF Arena
6	Piteå IF	4–2	Linköpings FC	2,789		LF Arena
7	FC Linköping	1–1	Vittsjö GIK	2,597		Linköping Arena
8	Hammarby IF	4–2	IF Limhamn Bunkeflo	2,369		Hammarby IP
9	Piteå IF	0–1	Kristianstads DFF	2,328		LF Arena
10	Piteå IF	0–2	FC Rosengård	2,296		Lombia IP

Updated to games played on 27 October 2018.^[6]

Top scorers

.^[7]

Player	Club	Goals
Anja Mittag	FC Rosengård	17
Anna Anvegård	Växjö DFF	14
Rebecka Blomqvist	Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC	14
Julia Zigiotti Olme	Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC	12
Julia Karlenäs	Piteå IF	11

External links

• Season at soccerway.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Linköping säkrade SM-guldet. Swedish Football Association. svenskfotboll.se . sv. 29 October 2017. 30 March 2018.
2. Web site: SM-guld. Linköpings FC. linkopingfc.com . sv. 30 October 2017. 30 March 2018.
3. News: Piteå tog första guldet efter dramatik. Dagens nyheter. sv. Jens Kärrman. 27 October 2018. 27 October 2018.
4. News: Damallsvenskan. Swedish Football Association . sv. 16 April 2015.
5. Web site: Summary - Damallsvenskan - Sweden - Results, fixtures, tables and news - Soccerway.
6. Web site: Spelprogram - Damallsvenskan. svenskfotboll.se. Swedish Football Association. sv. 26 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180430075910/http://svenskfotboll.se/damallsvenskan/spelprogram/. 30 April 2018. dead. dmy-all.
7. Web site: Skytteliga. Swedish Football Association. svenskfotboll.se. sv. 27 March 2018. 28 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181028112257/https://www.svenskfotboll.se/serier/damallsvenskan/spelarstatistik/. dead.