2005 in Swedish football

The 2005 season in Swedish football, starting January 2005 and ending December 2005:

26 May 2005: IFK Göteborg loses the historical first final of the Royal League against FC København after 1–1 in full-time and 26 penalties in the shoot-out.
6 June 2005: AFC Ajax signs Malmö FF's Markus Rosenberg, the transfer being concluded when Ajax offered approximately 5.3 million Euros for Rosenberg, who joined the Dutch club July 4.
13 June 2005: Around 30 AIK fans starts a fight on Gamla Ullevi before the start of the game in Superettan against GAIS.
23 August 2005: Malmö FF are beaten twice (0–1, 0–3) by Swiss team FC Thun in the second qualification round to the UEFA Champions League. Discussions about the bad standard of Swedish club football take place.
12 October 2005: The Sweden national team secures a place in the 2006 FIFA World Cup by winning 3-1 against Iceland.
17 October 2005: Djurgårdens IF wins their 11th national championship in the second last round of Allsvenskan by drawing against Örgryte IS while IFK Göteborg lost against Hammarby IF.
24 October 2005: IF Elfsborg announce that as an apology for their "unacceptable" performance they will repay the admission fees and travelling expenses of the approximately 200 fans who travelled to Stockholm and witnessed their 8–1 thrashing by Djurgårdens IF on the last day of the season.
29 October 2005: Djurgårdens IF manages to win "the double" by beating Åtvidabergs FF in the final of Svenska Cupen.
9 December 2005: The final draw for the 2006 FIFA World Cup took place, Sweden being drawn to play Trinidad and Tobago, Paraguay and England.

Honours

Official titles

Title	Team	Reason
Swedish Champions 2005	Djurgårdens IF	Winners of Allsvenskan
Swedish Cup Champions 2005	Djurgårdens IF	Winners of Svenska Cupen

Competitions

Level	Competition	Team
1st level	Allsvenskan 2005	Djurgårdens IF
2nd level	Superettan 2005	AIK
Cup	Svenska Cupen 2005	Djurgårdens IF

Promotions, relegations and qualifications

Promotions

Promoted from	Promoted to	Team	Reason
Superettan 2005	Allsvenskan 2006	AIK	Winners
		Östers IF	2nd team
		GAIS	Winners of qualification play-off
Division 2 2005	Superettan 2006	Jönköpings Södra IF	Winners of promotion play-off
		Qviding FIF	Winners of promotion play-off
		Umeå FC	Winners of promotion play-off

Relegations

Relegated from	Relegated to	Team	Reason
Allsvenskan 2005	Superettan 2006	Landskrona BoIS	Losers of qualification play-off
		GIF Sundsvall	13th team
		Assyriska Föreningen	14th team
Superettan 2005	Division 1 2006	Bodens BK	14th team
		Västerås SK	15th team
		Västra Frölunda IF	16th team

International qualifications

Qualified for	Enters	Team	Reason
UEFA Champions League 2006–07	2nd qualifying round	Djurgårdens IF	Winners of Allsvenskan
UEFA Cup 2006–07	1st qualifying round	IFK Göteborg	2nd team in Allsvenskan
		Åtvidabergs FF	Runners-up of Svenska Cupen
		Gefle IF	UEFA Fair Play winners
UEFA Intertoto Cup 2006	1st round	Kalmar FF	3rd team in Allsvenskan
Royal League 2005–06	Group stage	Djurgårdens IF	Winners of Allsvenskan
		IFK Göteborg	2nd team in Allsvenskan
		Kalmar FF	3rd team in Allsvenskan
		Hammarby IF	4th team in Allsvenskan

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Djurgårdens IF (C)	26	16	5	5	60	26	+34	53	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	IFK Göteborg	26	14	7	5	38	22	+16	49	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Kalmar FF	26	11	10	5	36	21	+15	43	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
4	Hammarby IF	26	12	7	7	43	30	+13	43
5	Malmö FF	26	12	5	9	38	27	+11	41
6	Helsingborgs IF	26	12	3	11	32	38	−6	39
7	IF Elfsborg	26	10	7	9	35	43	−8	37
8	BK Häcken	26	11	3	12	29	29	0	36
9	Örgryte IS	26	10	5	11	37	38	−1	35
10	Halmstads BK	26	9	5	12	38	38	0	32
11	Gefle IF	26	9	4	13	27	33	−6	31	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round^[a]
12	Landskrona BoIS (R)	26	8	6	12	26	44	−18	30	Qualification to Relegation play-offs
13	GIF Sundsvall (R)	26	6	7	13	31	46	−15	25	Relegation to Superettan
14	Assyriska FF (R)	26	4	2	20	17	52	−35	14	Relegation to Superettan

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	AIK (C, P)	30	19	7	4	56	27	+29	64	Promotion to Allsvenskan
2	Östers IF (P)	30	17	4	9	48	36	+12	55	Promotion to Allsvenskan
3	GAIS (O, P)	30	14	10	6	52	35	+17	52	Qualification to Promotion playoffs
4	Ljungskile SK	30	13	11	6	41	29	+12	50
5	Örebro SK	30	12	9	9	40	32	+8	45
6	IF Brommapojkarna	30	13	5	12	48	42	+6	44
7	IFK Norrköping	30	12	8	10	44	40	+4	44
8	Falkenbergs FF	30	11	8	11	38	43	−5	41
9	FC Väsby United	30	11	6	13	32	40	−8	39
10	Åtvidabergs FF	30	9	11	10	36	32	+4	38
11	Trelleborgs FF	30	9	9	12	34	34	0	36
12	Mjällby AIF	30	9	8	13	44	49	−5	35
13	Degerfors IF	30	9	7	14	31	36	−5	34
14	Boden (R)	30	9	5	16	28	48	−20	32	Relegation to Division 1
15	Västerås SK (R)	30	7	6	17	35	62	−27	27
16	Västra Frölunda (R)	30	7	4	19	32	54	−22	25

2005 in Swedish football

Honours

Official titles

Competitions

Promotions, relegations and qualifications

Promotions

Relegations

International qualifications

Domestic results

Allsvenskan

2005 Allsvenskan qualification play-off

Superettan

2005 Svenska Cupen

National team results

References

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