The 2015–16 Hockeyettan season is the second season that the third tier of ice hockey in Sweden has been organized under that name. The regular season began on 20 September 2015 and end on 14 February 2016, to be followed by promotion and relegation playoffs.
Format The clubs meet each team from their starting groups twice, home and away. The top four teams from each group form two new groups of eight. Teams 1–4 from Hockeyettan North and East form Allettan North, while teams 1–4 from Hockeyettan South and West form Allettan West. Each of these Allettan groups then plays an additional home-and-away series. Meanwhile, the remaining eight teams in each starting group play each other again in a continuation series.
The winner of each Allettan group qualifies directly for the 2016 HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers. Teams 2–5 in the Allettan groups, along with teams 1–2 from the continuation groups, play a playoff to fill the remaining two spots in the HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers. Teams 7–8 from the continuation groups are forced to re-qualify for Hockeyettan against teams from Division 2.
Participating teams Hockeyettan North Hockeyettan East Hockeyettan West Hockeyettan South Brunflo IKKalix UHCKiruna IFKovlands IFPiteå HCSK LejonSollefteå HKTegs SKVännäs HCÖrnsköldsvik HFÖstersunds IK Hammarby IFHaninge Anchors IFHuddinge IKHudiksvalls HCIF Vallentuna BKSollentuna HCSödertälje SKTierps HKVisby/Roma HKVäsby IK HKWings HC Arlanda Borlänge HFEnköpings SKForshaga IFGrästorps IKIFK Arboga IKKumla HC Black BullsKöping HCLindlövens IFMariestad BoIS HCSkövde IKSurahammars IFTranås AIF Halmstad HFHC DalenHelsingborgs HCIF Troja/Ljungby IFKallinge/Ronneby IFKristianstads IKMörrums GoIS IKNybro Vikings IFTyringe SoSSVarberg HKVimmerby HCVästerviks IK
Autumn season
Hockeyettan North
Hockeyettan East
Hockeyettan West
Hockeyettan South
Spring season
Allettan North
Allettan South
Hockeyettan North (spring)
Hockeyettan East (spring)
Hockeyettan West (spring)
Hockeyettan South (spring)
Playoffs
Round 1
Tranås 2–0 Skövde Game log
Östersund 2–1 Vännäs Game log
Piteå 2–1 Lindlöven Game log
Kiruna 2–0 Örnsköldsvik Game log
Södertälje 2–0 Halmstad Game log
Troja/Ljungby 2–0 Hammarby Game log
Huddinge 1–2 Kristianstad Game log
Visby/Roma 2–0 Åker/Strängnäs Game log
Round 2
Östersund 1–2 Kristianstad Game log
Södertälje 2–1 Piteå Game log
Tranås AIF 0–2 Visby/Roma Game log
Troja/Ljungby 2–0 Kiruna Game log
Round 3
Södertälje – Kristianstad Game log
IF Troja/Ljungby – Visby/Roma HK Game log
HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers
Hockeyettan qualifiers Each qualifying group pitted the two last teams from each spring series against challengers from Division 2. The teams met in a double round-robin tournament. Only the first place team automatically qualified for play in the 2016–17 Hockeyettan season. The Swedish Ice Hockey Association then selected second and third placed teams from the qualifying groups for play in Hockeyettan on a geographical basis, to ensure the geographical distribution of the teams in the four groups for the following season.
North
East
West
South
References