When does SSL start:

16-18 September for both SSL women and men.

Format of SSL:

14 teams in both SSL men's and SSL women's.

Both series are played over 26 rounds from September through March.

Teams one through eight play in the playoffs.

Teams 9-12 have finished playing for the season, while teams 13 and 14 are out.

This is how the premier round is played in SSL:

SSL ladies, 17-18 September:

Endre – Malmö

Västerås Rönnby – Lund

Sirius – Karlstad

Åkersberga – Täby

Warberg – Kalmar Sound

Falun – Pixbo

Neck - Thorengruppen

SSL Men, September 16-18:

Kalmarsund – Växjö

AIK – Team Thoren

Dalen – Helsingborg

Mullsjö - Falun

Storvreta – Pixbo

Linköping – Hagunda

Jönköping – Gävle

Newcomers to SSL 2022/23:

SSL ladies:

Åkersberga and Kalmarsund are new to the league.

They replace Mora and Jönköping, who left last spring.

SSL Mr.:

AIK is back in SSL and has brought Gävle with it.

They replace Sirius and Djurgården, which could not stay in the league.

This is how it went in SSL last season:

Falun took their seventh SM gold on the men's side after defeating Kalmarsund 5-4 in the final last spring.

On the women's side, the Thorengruppen defended their SM gold after defeating Pixbo for the second year in a row, here too it was 5-4.

Facts about SSL:

- Falun has the most titles on the men's side with seven SM golds.

- Iksu is the most champion on the women's side, also here with seven titles.

- The league with all matches in SSL women's and men's, broadcast on SportExpressen Play.

- The league was called Elitserien until 2006/07 on the men's side, and on the women's side until the 12/13 season before changing to the Swedish Superligan.

CLIP: Here, Falun celebrates the SM gold (April 23)

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Here, Falun celebrates the SM gold

Hot transitions before the SSL premiere:

- Newcomer Gävle was responsible for the big signing in June when they presented former national team star Alexander Rudd, formerly Storvreta.

- More Storvreta.

There will be a change of goalkeeper when club icon and six-time Swedish champion Viktor Klintsten leaves and is replaced by Måns Parsjö Tegnér from Dalen.

- The women's champions Thorengruppen recruit from the other Uppsala team, Sirius, when they pick up skilled Finnish defender Mia Vallenius.

- More Finnish players in SSL women's: Newcomer Åkersberga has signed the experienced Finnish national team goalkeeper Krista Nieminen, who most recently comes from playing with Berner in Switzerland.

CLIP: Team Thoren Swedish champions 2022 (April 23)

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Team Thoren takes SM gold in 2022. Photo: Bildbyrån