Sweden. Ranked 11th. A curious championship: Sweden maintained 2-phased formula for 8th season already – a championship play-offs followed the regular league season. This year the final was of 3 games instead of 2, as it was in the previous years, but the change was not all that interesting – rules for qualifying to the European tournaments were interesting. According to them, the champion of the country was not the team representing Sweden in the European Champions Cup, but the winner of the regular league championship. That in case the winners were different, of course. This year they were and the new Swedish champion went to play in the UEFA Cup and league winner in the European Champions Cup. This also affected the Cup Winners Cup representative of the country – the losing finalist benefited by the strange rule of representation in the European Champions Cup, for the league winner also won the Swedish Cup. Well, rules are weird sometimes.
The Third Division winners – it was a division of 4 groups – were promoted to Second Division as always. They were:
Gunnilse IS,
Sparvagens GoIF (Stockholm),
Tyreso FF, and
Helsingborgs IF.
Good luck to the newcomers to Second Division.
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