This is how the playoffs run
Quarterfinals:
Starts tonight the 14th of September with return on the 21st, winning team over two matches to the semifinals.
The matches:
The Lions-Dackarna
Rospiggarna-Vetlanda
Semifinals:
Runs on 28 and 29 September.
The Blacksmiths - choose resistance first, between one of the two quarter-final winners.
Västervik - is up against the team that is left over.
The two winning teams to the Swedish Championship final.
Finals:
Decided on 5 and 6 October.
The blacksmiths won the basic series - do they also win the Swedish Championship gold?
Photo: TT
So the expert thinks
- It feels very open.
There are six good teams left before the playoffs.
But somehow it feels like the Swedish Championship gold will end up in Småland.
I believe in a final between Smederna and Västervik.
Västervik has surprised a little this season, and has perhaps the best form of drivers right now, and can take the gold.
The Blacksmiths dominated in the basic series, but I do not know if the form will hold up in the playoffs.
But at the same time, it is difficult to remove Smederna when it comes to playoffs, as they can always tag along.
Both Smederna and Västervik do get that gap between the regular season and the semifinals that can be negative, but they are still two very good teams, says SVT expert Erik Stenlund to SVT Sport.
Stenlund's challenger also comes from Småland.
- The Ducks were favorites for the season, but have underperformed.
But maybe the shape settles when it contracts.
It is Micke Teurnberg's job to get the team together.
The ducks have a really strong tip, but there are question marks for Maciej Janowski, among others, who is very tame right now.
Other teams can not threaten.
The lions are good at home, but too thin.
I'm a little unsure of Vetlanda, when they can not match their best drivers.
Rospiggarna has admittedly shown good form at the end, but is not a team that reaches the final, says Erik Stenlund.
The last five champion teams
2020: The Masars (defeated the Indians in the final)
2019: Smederna (defeated Dackarna in the final)
2018: The Blacksmiths (defeated the Ducks in the final)
2017: Smederna (defeated Vetlanda in the final)
2016: Rospiggarna (defeated Dackarna in the final)
The Masars are reigning champions after the gold in 2020. Photo: Bildbyrån
Most champion teams
Getingarna (Stockholm) 16 Swedish Championship gold
Vetlanda (Vetlanda) 9 Swedish Championship gold
Vargarna (Norrköping) 6 Swedish Championship gold
Rospiggarna (Hallstavik) 5 Swedish Championship gold
Dackarna (Målilla) 5 Swedish Championship gold
Smederna (Eskilstuna) 5 Swedish Championship gold
The Wasps are Sweden's most champion team in speedway with 16 gold - but the Stockholm club went bankrupt in 2010. Photo: TT
Play-off snacks
- Will the Blacksmiths take their fourth Swedish Championship gold in five seasons?
The team that disappeared in 2020 due to the pandemic is back with a message.
Won the regular season and is chasing a new title.
- The Ducks have been in three finals the last five years.
Will the late new acquisition Tai Woffinden be the piece of the puzzle needed for Målilla team's first Swedish Championship gold since 2007?
- Västervik's team leader Morgan Andersson probably held his breath when the team's World Cup star Fredrik Lindgren crashed in Vojens.
Lindgren got up and can be Andersson's trump card in the playoffs.
- The Polish clubs do not release their drivers to Sweden.
In Vetlanda, Bartosz Zmarzlik and Dominik Kubera are not available in the first quarter final and in the Lions there is a big question mark for experienced Jaroslaw Hampel's participation.
- Rospiggarna's Daniel Henderson misses the playoffs.
Henderson has had a successful operation after his recent severe crash.
He is replaced by former youth world champion Anders Mellgren.
The biggest stars of the playoffs
- Artem Laguta, Västervik.
World Cup leader and the fastest driver in the speedway world right now.
- Tai Woffinden, Dackarna.
Three-time world champion who drove home two golds with Vetlanda.
- Bartosz Zmarzlik, Vetlanda.
Two straight World Cup golds.
An artist.
If he comes to the start.
- Fredrik Lindgren, Västervik.
Sweden's biggest star.
Experienced scoring machine.
Was a strong contributor to Dackarnas gold in 2007 after a decisive final effort - against Västervik.
CLIP: Lindgren crashed badly in Vojen's WC competition (September 12)
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Fredrik Lindgren crashed in Danish Vojens.
Photo: Mateusz Wojcik