2008 Division 1 (Swedish football)

Division 1

Season	2008
Champions	Syrianska FC (north) FC Trollhättan (south)
Promoted	Syrianska FC Vasalunds IF FC Trollhättan
Relegated	Ersboda SK Falu FK Bodens BK IFK Malmö Norrby IF Skärhamns IK
Top goalscorer	Niklas Moberg (21)
← 2007 2009 →

The 2008 Division 1 was contested by 28 teams divided into two groups geographically. Syrianska FC and FC Trollhättan won their respective groups, and thereby were promoted to Superettan for the 2009 season. Vasalunds IF who finished second in the northern group were also promoted after winning their playoff.

League tables

North

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Syrianska FC (C) (P)	26	17	8	1	44	16	+28	59	Promotion to Superettan
2	Vasalunds IF (O) (P)	26	15	6	5	57	26	+31	51	Promotion Playoffs
3	Västerås SK	26	16	3	7	59	36	+23	51
4	Gröndal	26	15	5	6	49	33	+16	50
5	Umeå FC	26	13	2	11	43	38	+5	41
6	Valsta Syrianska IK	26	10	6	10	41	40	+1	36
7	BK Forward	26	10	4	12	46	49	−3	34
8	Syrianska Botkyrka IF	26	8	7	11	26	35	−9	31
9	IF Sylvia	26	9	3	14	41	56	−15	30
10	Östersunds FK	26	7	8	11	30	36	−6	29
11	IK Brage	26	6	8	12	35	43	−8	26
12	Ersboda (R)	26	7	4	15	48	67	−19	25	Relegation to Division 2
13	Falu FK (R)	26	7	3	16	31	49	−18	24
14	Boden (R)	26	5	7	14	27	53	−26	22

Source: svenskfotboll.se
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

South

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	FC Trollhättan (C) (P)	26	14	7	5	41	26	+15	49	Promotion to Superettan
2	Östers IF	26	14	3	9	54	33	+21	45	Promotion Playoffs
3	Carlstad United BK	26	13	6	7	43	37	+6	45
4	Malmö Anadolu	26	13	5	8	53	38	+15	44
5	Skövde AIK	26	12	6	8	54	39	+15	42
6	Motala AIF	26	11	6	9	41	46	−5	39
7	IFK Värnamo	26	11	5	10	31	31	0	38
8	Västra Frölunda	26	8	11	7	45	41	+4	35
9	Lindome	26	8	8	10	36	33	+3	32
10	Torslanda IK	26	8	8	10	40	45	−5	32
11	Husqvarna FF	26	8	4	14	29	35	−6	28
12	IFK Malmö (R)	26	8	3	15	38	63	−25	27	Relegation to Division 2
13	Norrby IF (R)	26	8	2	16	38	52	−14	26
14	Skärhamn (R)	26	7	4	15	27	61	−34	25

Source: svenskfotboll.se
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Season statistics

Northern group top scorers

After transferring to Djurgårdens IF Kennedy Igboananike also became a top ten goalscorer in the 2010 Allsvenskan.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[1]
1	Kennedy Igboananike	Vasalunds IF	18
2	Bernhard Nyström	Falu FK	14
3	Patrik Grönvall	Västerås SK	13
	Jesper Carlsson	Gröndals IK
5	Herish Kuhi	BK Forward	12
	Raby Nahir Youssef	Gröndals IK
7	Martin Andersson	Västerås SK	11
	Danny Persson	Umeå FC
9	Niklas Gustafsson	BK Forward	10
10	Özgür Yasar	Syrianska FC	9
	Erik Lundström	Ersboda SK

Southern group top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[2]
1	Niklas Moberg	Carlstad United BK	21
2	Tomas Enrique Petry	Östers IF	17
3	Arsim Gashi	Motala AIF	14
	Liridon Rrustemaj	Malmö Anadolu
5	Jakob Orlov	Skövde AIK	13
6	Mårten Gustafsson	Skövde AIK	12
7	Måns Sörensson	IFK Malmö	10
	Martin Scherdin	FC Trollhättan
9	Rami Kurdali	Lindome GIF	9
	Kim Roger Strand	FC Trollhättan
	William Tonji Ngounou	Malmö Anadolu
	Daniel Leinar	Motala AIF

Young Player Teams Of The Year

At the end of each Division 1 season an all-star game is played called "Morgondagens Stjärnor" (English: "The Stars Of Tomorrow"). The two teams playing against each other consist of the best young players from each of the two leagues.^[3]

Team North Position Player Club GK Lennart Sandahl Östersunds FK DF Simon Ogunnaike Valsta Syrianska IK Mattias Englund BK Forward Tim Andersson Östersunds FK Yosif Ayuba Vasalunds IF Tobias Stenman Ersboda SK MF / FW Fredrik Wennebro Umeå FC Pontus Hendriks IK Brage Daniel Gustavsson Västerås SK Gökay Altuner Valsta Syrianska IK Anders Lillager Falu FK Armin Tankovic IF Sylvia Timmy Wilhelmsson FC Väsby United Kennedy Igboananike Vasalunds IF Nahir Awrouhom Syrianska Botkyrka IF Coach Peter Lenell Vasalunds IF

Team South Position Player Club GK Erik Dahlin Västra Frölunda IF DF Simon Svensson Motala AIF Månz Karlsson Östers IF Jonatan Ask Lindome GIF Martin Maletic IFK Värnamo Bennet Gustavsson Husqvarna FF MF / FW Ola Grändås Motala AIF Martin Arvidsson Norrby IF Tom Pettersson FC Trollhättan Alexander Henningsson Östers IF Medin Zekamani Malmö Anadolu Mattias Wahl Carlstad United BK Alexander Angelin Västra Frölunda IF Fredrik Törnqvist Carlstad United BK Axel Johansson Östers IF Coach Göran Ekh Motala AIF

References

• Sweden - List of final tables (Clas Glenning)

1. "Skytteliga". The Swedish Football Association (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
2. "Skytteliga". The Swedish Football Association (in Swedish). The Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
3. "2008". Morgondages Sjärnor. Retrieved 2012-11-01.