Sweden. Tied with Bulgaria at 17th place in the UEFA ranking. Unlike Bulgaria, no corruption, no scandals, no schemes and government involvement – Swedish problem was different: whether football was professional or amateur, there was no way to build and maintain strong club. Players inevitably went to play abroad. But Sweden was used to it and no big deal. IFK Goteborg was recently weakened a bit because of its international success and another club moved in. Lower levels were modest anyway. The winners of the two groups of the Second Division were promoted as always.
Second Division Norra – the northern group. Fairly equal season. Perhaps low scoring was main feature: only 6 of the 14 teams finished with positive goal-difference and the 2nd place team had only +1!
Ope IF – last with 16 points and relegated.
Sandvikens IF – 13th with 21 points and relegated.
Enkopings SK – 12th with 21 points and relegated.
Orebro SK survived on better goal-difference for they also finished with 21 points. 11th.
Lulea FF/IFK – 10th with 23 points.
IFK Eskilstuna – 9th with 24 points.
Degerfors IF – 8th with 24 points.
Skelleftea AIK – or IFK Skelleftea? – 7th with 28 points.
Vasalunds IF – 6th with 28 points.
IFK Vasteras – 5th with 29 points.
Gefle IF – 4th with 30 points.
Vasteras SK – 3rd with 32 points.
IF Brommapojkarna – 2nd with 33 points. Missed promotion by a point. Well, considering their pitiful goal-difference… by 2 points.
GIF Sundsvall won the championship with 34 points from 12 wins, 10 ties, and 4 losses. They managed to prevails over the competition, but their real strength was scoring: by points alone, they were hardly much better than the rest. Scoring was another matter: 51-26 goal-difference gave them +26. The nest best were Gefle IF with +18. Since one cannot count of goal-difference… the winners still clinched victory on points, but it was tough. But they were going up and good luck.