Umeå won the title in 2018, 2020 and 2021 and finished second in 2019. But now you have to go back to third place.
Despite Team Thorén's Swedish Championship gold and Jonna Sundling's magnificent winter, the success has been somewhat less than in previous years.
According to the 50-man jury, there are therefore two cities that are sharper this year.
It was an incredibly even battle for third place in this year's ranking between Umeå, Malmö and Gothenburg.
All three were on 43 of the 50 top 10 lists and in the end only seven points differed between the three.
Malmö, which took home the title in 2014 and 2015, was only one point away from the first podium in six years.
Malmö's football year is magnificent when both Rosengård and MFF took home the double, and also reached group games in the Champions League.
Malmö was also the country's best club in athletics and tennis this year.
But Malmö has a low sports activity in the municipality overall, the second lowest of the 37 competing sports cities.
In addition, it does not have the same width as, for example, Uppsala, Helsingborg and Örebro, which are clearly smaller cities.
The jury's motto is "performance by population".
After all, there were five jury members who had Malmö as number one, including the host Kamil Bochenski and two managers at SVT Sport - so the jury members valued the city quite differently.
Now only two cities remain in this year's countdown.
Tomorrow 1630 will be the answer to whether Karlstad or Norrköping is Sweden's best sports city in 2022. None of the cities has previously won the award.