The Swedish bandy league system is a series of interconnected leagues

League system

A league system is a hierarchy of leagues in a sport, usually with a system of promotion and relegation between consecutive levels of the hierarchy. They are often called pyramids due to their tendency to split into an increasing number of regional divisions the further down the pyramid one descends...

 for club bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

 in Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

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Current system

The table below shows how the system as of the 2010–2011 season works. For each division, its Swedish name and number of clubs is given. It is not guaranteed that each division is a feeder of teams to the division that lies directly above it and relegates teams to the divisions that lie directly below it, even though this usually is the case. A new system was introduced for the 2007–2008 season. The changes are a top division with fewer teams which has also changed its name.

Level	League(s)/Division(s)
1	Elitserien Elitserien (bandy) The Elitserien is since the 2007–08 season the highest bandy league in Sweden. It consist of 14 teams. The season ends with a final on Studenternas IP in Uppsala. From 2013 the final will be played in Swedbank Arena, Solna....
	14 clubs
2	Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (bandy) Allsvenskan is since the 2007–08 the second highest level of bandy in Sweden and comprises 30 teams in three groups. Allsvenskan succeeded Allsvenskan and Elitserien.-Season structure:...
	North, 12 clubs		South, 12 clubs
3	Division 1 Division 1 (bandy) Division 1 is the third level in the league system of Swedish bandy and comprises 60 Swedish bandy teams in six groups. The level was founded in 1931 as Sweden's first level, and became the second from the 1981/1982 season and the third from the 2007/2008....
	North, 8 clubs	West, 10 clubs	East, 10 clubs	South, 10 clubs
4	Division 2